water cooling

[Robots (2005)]

I want to water cool becase it looks dank as a mofo,

 

my pc right now is a fake UV light color and green on my fans and it looks sickkk.

 

 

So I was thinking getting like green UV reactive liquid and a real UV strip.

 

 

I have a s340 right now.

 

what do I all need and/or need to know to make my own loop?

 

is there any stores you know that can do it for you If i really need them to? maybe that way I could do hard tubing?

 

can stores like microcenter? I know they have built computers for my friends before at microcenter 

 

 

[ripper101]

Use EK

and if there is a store who will do it for you, it will probably be very expensive

[Robots (2005)]

1 hour ago, ripper101 said:

Use EK

and if there is a store who will do it for you, it will probably be very expensive

money is my middle name friend.  

[stealth80]

Just buy the parts and do it yourself - everyone starts with hard line somewhere, no one is born an expert, just buy more tubes than you need cause you will mess bends or bubble the tubes occasionally

 

Shopping list:

 

Reservoir

 

Pump (or pump + pump res combo) - PWM are better imo

 

Radiator/s (120mm per component cooled + 120mm - so 360mm of radiator minimum for CPU + GPU) more rad space = better cooling and lower fan speeds. A crossflow can help with astetics as don't have to run tubes to the same side of the rad, check my top rad below:

 

 

CPU, GPU (and motherboard, ram blocks if required) blocks.

 

2 fittings per component in the loop + 1 for the drain (all are g1/4 thread - bit that screws into the rad/block, the other side is what matters, best imo is 10/12mm or 10/13mm  (3/8 - 1/2).

 

Rigid tubing to match the fittings dimensions (compression are easy and look great) + excess for errors - PETG is MUCH easier than acrylic

 

Heatgun, silicon insert and something of a nice diameter for bends - preferably a bending jig

 

High static pressure fans, EKs are decent as are noctua, if you want RGB etc have a look at Thermaltake Riing 12

 

PWM hub - allows you to connect a bunch of fans to the hub with only one signal cable to the motherboard, I used them on previous build:

 

 

Right angle, 45 degree fittings to make everything as little cleaner and easier to route, Bitspower/barrow look great, but its personal taste really

 

 

[ripper101]

3 minutes ago, Robots (2005) said:

money is my middle name friend.  

you lucky  

[Robots (2005)]

1 hour ago, stealth80 said:

Just buy the parts and do it yourself - everyone starts with hard line somewhere, no one is born an expert, just buy more tubes than you need cause you will mess bends or bubble the tubes occasionally

 

Shopping list:

 

Reservoir

 

Pump (or pump + pump res combo) - PWM are better imo

 

Radiator/s (120mm per component cooled + 120mm - so 360mm of radiator minimum for CPU + GPU) more rad space = better cooling and lower fan speeds. A crossflow can help with astetics as don't have to run tubes to the same side of the rad, check my top rad below:

 

 

CPU, GPU (and motherboard, ram blocks if required) blocks.

 

2 fittings per component in the loop + 1 for the drain (all are g1/4 thread - bit that screws into the rad/block, the other side is what matters, best imo is 10/12mm or 10/13mm  (3/8 - 1/2).

 

Rigid tubing to match the fittings dimensions (compression are easy and look great) + excess for errors - PETG is MUCH easier than acrylic

 

Heatgun, silicon insert and something of a nice diameter for bends - preferably a bending jig

 

High static pressure fans, EKs are decent as are noctua, if you want RGB etc have a look at Thermaltake Riing 12

 

PWM hub - allows you to connect a bunch of fans to the hub with only one signal cable to the motherboard, I used them on previous build:

 

 

Right angle, 45 degree fittings to make everything as little cleaner and easier to route, Bitspower/barrow look great, but its personal taste really

 

 

i could do it myself but I dont want to wreck a $4000 rig lol

[ripper101]

1 minute ago, Robots (2005) said:

i could do it myself but I dont want to wreck a $4000 rig lol

You won't if you know a little bit on what you're doing

[Robots (2005)]

1 hour ago, ripper101 said:

You won't if you know a little bit on what you're doing

well knowing me lol, I burned out my first CPU buy now screwing the cooler down all the way 

[stealth80]

1 minute ago, Robots (2005) said:

well knowing me lol, I burned out my first CPU buy now screwing the cooler down all the way 

Exactly, you didn't get fully clued up before trying. Just take your time, don't rush. make sure everything from PSU is disconnected from the board when you fill and leak check/bleed the system. You only need the pump and fans plugged into the PSU molex connectors and a shorting link for the PSU's black and green cable on the 24 pin connector. From there fill the res, switch on let the pump move the fluid around the loop switch off when level drops. Refill, switch on, switch off, rinse and repeat til ful. Put tissue/kitchen roll around and under every connection so if there is a leak most of it gets absorbed.

PC components are more robust than people think and good coolant has very low conductivity. I had a leak between my previous 2x 970s onto the board between the PCIE slots which I couldn't see, but the PC powered down:

 

 

As you can see my view was pretty restricted and it occurred in an undisturbed place - Stripped the cards out, dried it out and left it over night - worked fine the next day and I'm still using the board and CPU now

 

 

[Mr.Meerkat]

22 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Right angle, 45 degree fittings to make everything as little cleaner and easier to route, Bitspower/barrow look great, but its personal taste really

That's cheeting...you're not allowed to do that