Make soft tubing look a bit better?

[Owlman]

I've been wanting to try custom water cooling for a while and I'm wondering what I can do to make soft tubing look a bit better. I don't want to start with hard tubing as it look like a pain to do, at least for a beginner. 

[TommyW2061]

keep the tubes as short as possible between fittings, long tubes tend to sack and dont look that nice. that said. you can make really cool looking builds with soft tubing. you just need to have a good plan

[Owlman]

3 minutes ago, TommyW2061 said:

keep the tubes as short as possible between fittings, long tubes tend to sack and dont look that nice. that said. you can make really cool looking builds with soft tubing. you just need to have a good plan

Any advice for a loop in the nzxt h440?

[PrimeSonic]

Not sure what you need to make it look better.

 

A few ideas:

- Keep your tubing runs short

- Use colored fluid in clear tubes

- Or use colored tubes

- Compression fittings will hide any rough cuts at the ends

[TommyW2061]

3 minutes ago, Owlman said:

Any advice for a loop in the nzxt h440?

i would say go with a triple 120 rad in the front and a small-medium large pump+res combo, keep the runs small between fittings and try to make bends that you make in the loop as symmetrical as possible compared to the other runs/bends you have. also try to match the color scheme of your mobo/case, that makes things look less chaotic and more clean

[Owlman]

2 minutes ago, TommyW2061 said:

i would say go with a triple 120 rad in the front and a small-medium large pump+res combo, keep the runs small between fittings and try to make bends that you make in the loop as symmetrical as possible compared to the other runs/bends you have. also try to match the color scheme of your mobo/case, that makes things look less chaotic and more clean

thanks

[SonoDanshi]

I'd also strongly recommend checking out EK's satin black soft tubing - it looks beautiful.

[Owlman]

15 minutes ago, SonoDanshi said:

I'd also strongly recommend checking out EK's satin black soft tubing - it looks beautiful.

Are you talking about their ZMT (zero maintenance tubing )? If not can you provide a link

[SonoDanshi]

7 hours ago, Owlman said:

Are you talking about their ZMT (zero maintenance tubing )? If not can you provide a link

Yes I was referring to the black ZMT tubing. Check out the pictures from @Rck010 and @Sazexa respectively in the watercooling gallery to see how it looks in builds.
 

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[Sazexa]

I love ZMT from EK. Parallel runs and logical loop order can make and loop look good. Especially with ZMT. I'm on my phone otherwise I'd share pictures.

[Sazexa]

Here's a picture of one of my previous builds, in an NCase M1, using EK's ZMT tubing.

[W-L]

On 3/16/2017 at 9:31 AM, Owlman said:

I've been wanting to try custom water cooling for a while and I'm wondering what I can do to make soft tubing look a bit better. I don't want to start with hard tubing as it look like a pain to do, at least for a beginner. 

As mentioned keeping things short and only as long as they are needed helps a lot, one of my personal favorite things to do though with soft tubing is to give it a bend or curve and not try to create straight runs as the tubing naturally want to curve out of the box.