EK or Bitspower fittings?

[seba7661]

i am going to do costume water cooling very soon, until now i found all my parts from ekwb but i have heard that thee fittings shouldent be the best and the ones from bitspower should be better. so i just wanna know if i can buy the ones from ek or i should go with bitspower

[iiNNeX]

Both companies offer high quality fittings. Buy whichever you like the look and colour of.

[cluelessgenius]

bitspower are supposed to be better but you end up with 1.5x to 2x the cost at least this was the case when i planned my loop and depending on how many fiitings you need it can quite a lot of money

[seba7661]

Just now, cluelessgenius said:

bitspower are supposed to be better but you end up with 1.5x to 2x the cost at least this was the case when i planned my loop and depending on how many fiitings you need it can quite a lot of money

im not doing any kind of bending, only with 90 fittings, so it will prob be very expensive then?

[cluelessgenius]

23 minutes ago, seba7661 said:

im not doing any kind of bending, only with 90 fittings, so it will prob be very expensive then?

if you still want to use rigid tubing then yes it could get quite expensive and me personally i would go with ek

i did the calculation for my loop and ek everything would cost 200ish and bitspower was like 370 or something and thats with no bending too

[Bananasplit_00]

bitspower are better quality, but EKWB fittings are what i use because the extra cost of bitspower is just too much. the fitings alone would costs about the cost of the rest of the components im the loop added together  EK fittings are still good quality, i only have experience with the ACF fittings but they were pretty nice

[seba7661]

27 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

if you still want to use rigid tubing then yes it could get quite expensive and me personally i would go with ek

i did the calculation for my loop and ek everything would cost 200ish and bitspower was like 370 or something and thats with no bending too

oh yea i see, way more expensive. but its also only the 2x45 fittings which has some problems with leaking, so ill just go all ek

[cluelessgenius]

24 minutes ago, seba7661 said:

oh yea i see, way more expensive. but its also only the 2x45 fittings which has some problems with leaking, so ill just go all ek

i mean you can do the math your self. make a list or drawing of your loop and then make to trial run shopping carts at your preferred online store and see yourself how much each option would run you. if its 100 vs 150 for example id consider it

[seba7661]

Just now, cluelessgenius said:

i mean you can do the math your self. make a list or drawing of your loop and then make to trial run shopping carts at your preferred online store and see yourself how much each option would run you. if its 100 vs 150 for example id consider it

i really like ek and im going to buy everything else from them, this is the first water cooled build im going to build so i really dont want to f**k it up

[vong]

2 hours ago, seba7661 said:

i am going to do costume water cooling very soon, until now i found all my parts from ekwb but i have heard that thee fittings shouldent be the best and the ones from bitspower should be better. so i just wanna know if i can buy the ones from ek or i should go with bitspower

I've used both and Bitspower are better but can be a bit tricky to use. For soft tubing, there are times where the compression ring doesn't go on properly so it's hard to catch a thread. For hard tubing you need to bevel the ends quite a bit to get them to fit properly.

 

EK fittings for me looked nice but were a bit of a pain to deal with. First is there's no collar on the fitting itself so the threads can cut your fingers when fitting them on tightly and second if you put the compression ring on too tight and try to take it off the whole fitting will come loose. This is for the soft tube fittings, the hard tube ones seem fine.

[seba7661]

1 minute ago, vong said:

I've used both and Bitspower are better but can be a bit tricky to use. For soft tubing, there are times where the compression ring doesn't go on properly so it's hard to catch a thread. For hard tubing you need to bevel the ends quite a bit to get them to fit properly.

 

EK fittings for me looked nice but were a bit of a pain to deal with. First is there's no collar on the fitting itself so the threads can cut your fingers when fitting them on tightly and second if you put the compression ring on too tight and try to take it off the whole fitting will come loose. This is for the soft tube fittings, the hard tube ones seem fine.

im going to do hardtubing. so you would say that i should go with ek?

 

[vong]

2 minutes ago, seba7661 said:

im going to do hardtubing. so you would say that i should go with ek?

 

Yeah go with EK for hard tubing, just be careful with the threads when screwing them on.

[seba7661]

6 minutes ago, vong said:

Yeah go with EK for hard tubing, just be careful with the threads when screwing them on.

yea, not to hard right?

 

[vong]

1 minute ago, seba7661 said:

yea, not to hard right?

 

I wouldn't say not too hard, maybe use some sort of thin cloth or bit of paper towel over the threads.

[seba7661]

Just now, vong said:

I wouldn't say not too hard, maybe use some sort of thin cloth or bit of paper towel over the threads.

to make it more tight? and isnt that going to interfere? 

[vong]

Just now, seba7661 said:

to make it more tight? and isnt that going to interfere? 

Use it just to protect your fingers that's all.

[seba7661]

12 minutes ago, vong said:

Use it just to protect your fingers that's all.

ahh okay, thought you meant inside

[Mick Naughty]

I use ek barb and 90's. Bit's compression fittings as they were on sale for 2.99. BOught like 26 of them. I go for price first then looks second. But if you are buying once and know exactly what the look needs, I make them all match as best as possible. Quality pieces either way.