A long story and some opinions please :)

[Goran]

Right, around October last year i was awarded an Arkwright scholarship for Design Technology (one of my subjects at college) and decided to spend my £250 on a mega custom watercooling jobby ("educational purposes" of course ;])

Cooling an ASUS P5N72-T 780i motherboard, a Q6600, and a 9600GT.

Bought a ton of stuff for a dual loop system, whacked it all in and to start off with was running nicely with some great temps.

Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8dh09Gjok

So to cut a long story short, it leaked. I used a load of (expensive) hose clamps which apparently did nothing to stop leaking. My theory as to why it leaked is that i used average 1/2" barbs and 1/2" tubing which meant the tubing didn't fit too well on the barbs leading to leaking.

Anyway, the long and short of it is the water got in to the PCI slot, bricking the motherboard and graphics card.

So here I am 6 months later, finally raised the money just to buy a new motherboard and graphics card (asus p43 USB3 + HIS 5770) with a ton of watercooling bits i'm not using. I bought all the blocks for the motherboard which won't fit on any other (i dont think) and aren't really that in demand for reselling. I also have 2 MCP335 pumps, a dual bay XSPC reservoir for 2 pumps, a ton of 1/2" tubing, a swiftech apogee GTZ CPU block, a dual and a triple 120 radiator.

Part of the reason for posting this is to share my pain with you guys , but also I just wanted your opinions or whatever on what you think I should do now.

If you made it to this part, you're a hero, i've typed a right essay.

Also just like to say thanks to Tom Logan, we can all agree that guy is an absolute legend.

 

[tinytomlogan]

For starters fella I edited a part out to stick with our rules

Welcome to OC3D though fella

As I said on YT, just get some 1/2 barbs and some 7/16 hose. As long as all the barbs are done up tight on the blocks youll be fine. 7/16 is a bit smaller than 1/2 hose and you dont even really need to use clamps or zipties on them. On loads of my rigs Ive not bothered to keep it tidy.

 

[Goran]

ah yes i know which bit you're on about, my bad, newbie here.

I think my summer project will be to watercool my current rig then.

I'm using a Fractal Design R2 case, which only has 2 drive bays so ima use a T-line and fill port instead of the dual bay res.

What pump top for the MCP335 would you recommend and also do you think a 240mm rad would be enough for cooling a Q6600 and Radeon 5770 or should i try and get my triple in there somewhere?

 

[tinytomlogan]

A tripple would be best tbh dude. And having a res is much better than a fill port tbh. You dont need internal DVD anyways they look fugly

Top wise tbh it makes next to sfa difference in the real world.

 

[Goran]

haha Tom there's quite a long list of things you hate. Feser, compression fittings, internal disc drives, t-lines. you do do awesome work though so there must be a reason