what CPU water block fin design is better?

[Mick Naughty]

Well you were whiling to trust china ebay parts for cooling but not a used aio? If you are getting this later how it is part of the budget? Could just get a nice air cooler and out perform anything in your budget for watercooling.

[Plumpeken]

I am only trusting parts with 5 star reviews, and when the pump dies on the AIO in like a year I will have to replace the entire AIO instead of a ~35 part. I also want to be able to OC the i5 8600k to ~5GHz without any thought of over heating.

[Plumpeken]

9 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Well you were whiling to trust china ebay parts for cooling but not a used aio? If you are getting this later how it is part of the budget? Could just get a nice air cooler and out perform anything in your budget for watercooling.

Also, I've never done this before, and I want to give it a shot/

[Mick Naughty]

Well an aio will last for years without issue. And still, a fancy air cooler that will perform better and regardless of the temp oc's wont be guaranteed.

 

I assume the parts picked are barbed? Aside from the cpu block. Get decent clamps then or thinner walled hose if you use zip ties.

[W-L]

23 minutes ago, Plumpekin said:

Also, I've never done this before, and I want to give it a shot/

As many have suggested your best option would be to get a good quality AIO unit over a cheap watercooling loop. 

[Damascus]

3 hours ago, Plumpekin said:

Non, I'm building a PC for around $1000 CAD and I was going to get a cheap 240 AIO for overclocking the i5 8600k, but all the ones for under $150 CAD had reviews of either the fans are bad, the pump failed within a few months, it leaked etc, so I decided to try and make my own loop for under $200 CAD, Here is my lost so far every thing on it had 5 stars on amazon.

pump/res (150ml) - $48

240mm radiator - $37

CPU block - $~85

all I need is tubing.. right?

do you have any suggestions for low cost but decent soft tubing?

Damascus to the rescue, I happen to be selling a DDC pumpres, a bunch of fittings and my fave type of tubing.  Also, check out dazmode.com

 

Radiators

• EK SE 240 (smallest on them market)
• EK PE 360 (among the best in 45mm class)

Pumps

• 1 DDC v3.5
• 1 D5 vario (willing to let the DDC go cheap)

Reservoirs

• dual DDC 5.25" bayres w/ pump mount
• D5 5.25" bayres w/pump mount
• D5 pupmtop

Blocks

• MSI branded EK FC block for the 1070/1080 Gaming X PCB (also used on the armor cards)

Fittings

• 4 bitspower 3/8, 5/8 90 degree adapter (black)
• 4 bitspower 3/8, 5/8 45 degree adapter (black)
• 2 bitspower 3/8, 5/8 (black)
• 2 1/2" barb

[Damascus]

These are fantastic fittings BTW, strongly recommend.

 

https://www.dazmode.com/store/product/straight_connector_-_3_8_id_-_5_8_od_-_value_pack_set_of_4/

[Damascus]

@Plumpekin I’ll pass you the pump res for $60, then you can get one of those cheap 5 star copper cpu blocks, a copper radiator from dazmode ($60) 8 of the fittings I linked ($35) and a few feet of EK ZMT tubing.

 

all together a higher quality build that is way less likely to leak