Help planning out my loop

Armakar · December 29, 2017

So, I'm a little sick of AIOs. Bad temps (85c really?) crappy reliability and they look kind of garbage too. As such, I'm looking for help planning a loop.

I've set my sights on the following things, I just don't know if they're good and I don't know what fittings/tubing/fluid I'll need to make it all fit together. I don't know if I need compression fittings, I don't know which fittings are best, etc. Here's what I've got so far:

Phanteks Glacier 1080Ti GPU Block (Aluminium cover plates, nickel finish, acrylic surface)

Phanteks C350i CPU Block (Aluminum plates, nickel finish, acrylic surface)

Some 480mm Radiator. I don't know which to get, because all of them seem to be copper and according to Jay you shouldn't mix copper with aluminium.
A (preferrably not too expensive) pump/res combo. I don't know whether I need a D5 or something else.
I don't know what kind of fittings I will need.

So, yeah. I don't know much about fittings, tubing sizes, I don't know what radiator to go for and I don't know what pump/res combo to go for. It would be a great help if someone could help me put it together. The only thing i'm sure about is that I want a 480mm rad and those specific GPU/CPU blocks (they're not expensive and asus aura).

Help appriciated.

Moress · December 29, 2017

A 480mm rad with a 1080ti and 8700k will not get you much any cooling than that AIO for your CPU alone. You'd be better off delidding the CPU if you want better temps.

Armakar · December 29, 2017

12 hours ago, Moress said:

A 480mm rad with a 1080ti and 8700k will not get you much any cooling than that AIO for your CPU alone. You'd be better off delidding the CPU if you want better temps.

What if I added a 360mm at the front? And would they be in seperate loops? That complicates things quite a bit.

Moress · December 29, 2017

1 hour ago, Armakar said:

What if I added a 360mm at the front? And would they be in seperate loops? That complicates things quite a bit.

A 480 and 360 would be fine in a single loop for a 1080ti and 8700k. If you get a pump thats powerful enough it would be fine to run them in the same loop, just look around online for a powerful enough pump. I would still suggest delidding as that alone can drop temps by 15-20 degrees C due to the terrible TIM intel uses

For Science! · December 29, 2017

18 hours ago, Armakar said:

So, I'm a little sick of AIOs. Bad temps (85c really?) crappy reliability and they look kind of garbage too. As such, I'm looking for help planning a loop.

I've set my sights on the following things, I just don't know if they're good and I don't know what fittings/tubing/fluid I'll need to make it all fit together. I don't know if I need compression fittings, I don't know which fittings are best, etc. Here's what I've got so far:

Phanteks Glacier 1080Ti GPU Block (Aluminium cover plates, nickel finish, acrylic surface)

Phanteks C350i CPU Block (Aluminum plates, nickel finish, acrylic surface)

Some 480mm Radiator. I don't know which to get, because all of them seem to be copper and according to Jay you shouldn't mix copper with aluminium.
A (preferrably not too expensive) pump/res combo. I don't know whether I need a D5 or something else.
I don't know what kind of fittings I will need.

So, yeah. I don't know much about fittings, tubing sizes, I don't know what radiator to go for and I don't know what pump/res combo to go for. It would be a great help if someone could help me put it together. The only thing i'm sure about is that I want a 480mm rad and those specific GPU/CPU blocks (they're not expensive and asus aura).

Help appriciated.

I think you're a little bit all over the place with respect to your materials. The blocks you have chosen are both nickel plated copper and so you should be looking for a copper radiator, NOT an aluminium radiator.

I would recommend you to read around a little bit more and perhaps come up with a putative list of components and that will both be beneficial for yourself and offload some of the heavy lifting it would take for someone to come up with a complete part list (for a case that we haven' been told about either).