aluminium watercooling

[The_Tempo_Golem]

just wondering if i could get EK's new all aluminium water cooling kit but then use hard line with it or would that cause corrosion

[Enderman]

Save up more money and buy a better quality loop.

Unless you have $500+ for a proper watercooling setup you should stick to air cooling or AIOs.

[BluJay614]

5 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Save up more money and buy a better quality loop.

Unless you have $500+ for a proper watercooling setup you should stick to air cooling or AIOs.

I would agree that I would rather go copper then aluminum, but several reviewers (EVEN JAYZTWOCENTS) took a look at the new aluminum loops and gave it their seal of approval. If he wants to go aluminum, I say more power to him. @That Minecraft Player unless you use copper pipes, it should be fine. Remember to give yourself a way to maintenance and drain the loop(that typically isn't included in the kit) also, since you are a first time watercooler, I may stick to the soft tubing. It's generally more forgiving and much easier to work with. 

[The_Tempo_Golem]

i cant do either of those due to my setup (no air flow in the part of the custom case that the cpu is in) and could never fit either end of an aio through the tubing hole 

i agree with your statement in most cases but in this case it is needed and i don't have the money for a $500 loop 

[The_Tempo_Golem]

Just now, BluJay614 said:

I would agree that I would rather go copper then aluminum, but several reviewers (EVEN JAYZTWOCENTS) took a look at the new aluminum loops and gave it their seal of approval. If he wants to go aluminum, I say more power to him. @That Minecraft Player unless you use copper pipes, it should be fine. Remember to give yourself a way to maintenance and drain the loop(that typically isn't included in the kit) also, since you are a first time watercooler, I may stick to the soft tubing. It's generally more forgiving and much easier to work with. 

thanks for the tips 

my plan was to use hard tubing for only the visible parts and then soft tubing for the rest to provide flexibility and good looks

 

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, BluJay614 said:

I would agree that I would rather go copper then aluminum, but several reviewers (EVEN JAYZTWOCENTS) took a look at the new aluminum loops and gave it their seal of approval. If he wants to go aluminum, I say more power to him. @That Minecraft Player unless you use copper pipes, it should be fine. Remember to give yourself a way to maintenance and drain the loop(that typically isn't included in the kit) also, since you are a first time watercooler, I may stick to the soft tubing. It's generally more forgiving and much easier to work with. 

Having it be aluminum basically means you can't upgrade it with any good parts.

Upgrading and adding components is the main feature of custom watercooling.

You're basically locking yourself into a crappy situation.

Even with anticorrosives, it is not a good idea to mix aluminum with other stuff.

 

On top of that, there are certain parts that you should be buying from other brands that are not EK.

Buying a whole kit gives you no choice in what components you use, unless you replace some parts and it ends up costing more anyway.

[The_Tempo_Golem]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Having it be aluminum basically means you can't upgrade it with any good parts.

Upgrading and adding components is the main feature of custom watercooling.

You're basically locking yourself into a crappy situation.

Even with anticorrosives, it is not a good idea to mix aluminum with other stuff.

 

On top of that, there are certain parts that you should be buying from other brands that are not EK.

Buying a whole kit gives you no choice in what components you use, unless you replace some parts and it ends up costing more anyway.

for me the custom water cooling is used as a more flexible aio cooler

[BluJay614]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Having it be aluminum basically means you can't upgrade it with any good parts.

Upgrading and adding components is the main feature of custom watercooling.

You're basically locking yourself into a crappy situation.

Even with anticorrosives, it is not a good idea to mix aluminum with other stuff.

 

On top of that, there are certain parts that you should be buying from other brands that are not EK.

Buying a whole kit gives you no choice in what components you use, unless you replace some parts and it ends up costing more anyway.

That doesn't mean that kits are no good. It's great for first time builders who may not know as much about how to pick out the parts for their loop. Yes, if he wanted to upgrade, he would have to swap the rad, pump, and the cpu block(gpu block if he gets that version as well). Yes, it adds on price, but it's there. It's not locking yourself into a crappy situation. It's not the best situation, but it's a less expensive way that is still good.

[Enderman]

Just now, That Minecraft Player said:

for me the custom water cooling is used as a more flexible aio cooler

Exactly, more flexible.

If you can't upgrade it or add anything higher quality that isn't aluminum then you're stuck with a crappy loop.

[SquintyG33Rs]

19 minutes ago, That Minecraft Player said:

just wondering if i could get EK's new all aluminium water cooling kit but then use hard line with it or would that cause corrosion

you can totally do that. but it will be hard to find aluminum fittings for this. you can't use the included fittings for hardline

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, BluJay614 said:

That doesn't mean that kits are no good. It's great for first time builders who may not know as much about how to pick out the parts for their loop. Yes, if he wanted to upgrade, he would have to swap the rad, pump, and the cpu block(gpu block if he gets that version as well). Yes, it adds on price, but it's there. It's not locking yourself into a crappy situation. It's not the best situation, but it's a less expensive way that is still good.

1) first time builders should do enough research to know how to build a full loop and pick components themselves.

Otherwise they should not be sticking custom watercooling inside a PC and should use air cooling or AIOs instead like I mentioned earlier.

 

2) That's basically swapping all the loop. It's easier and cheaper to do research in the first place and buy good components.

 

3) It already IS a crappy situation in the first place. You get crappy EK fittings and aluminum blocks.

You either keep all those crappy components or you spend way too much money in the long run replacing everything.

[BluJay614]

 

[Zebzz]

On 28/06/2017 at 4:58 PM, BluJay614 said:

 

Hi,

 

I have trying to find if anyone company has produce aluminium hard tubing compression fittings. With the new A240G from EKWB i would like to see if I could add hard tubing, I know that I can use nickle brass fitting but i would like to remove corrosion. With all aluminium i would eliminate that process. Also a very cheap hard tube config.