A Master Piece, or fail for life

[Theyoungassassin]

Hey Guys and Girls

I am soon going to create a liquid cooled set-up. But there is a catch.

I personally dont like the "basic tubing" witch everybody is using now a days. So the other way to go is Hard tubing, witch i love in a pc system.

The problem is, i have NEVER done custom liquid cooling, i am allied with a friend whom has done it with basic tubing. So 2 guys, 0 experience with hard tubing.

is this a projekt that can be a master piece, or is this going to fail just from the start.

my budget is around 8-9 K DKK witch is about 1200 $

Thanks in advance.

Philip (Theyoungassassin)

 

[JR23]

Why should there be a problem, I mean provided your both remotely sane. Is $1200 your budget for the entire setup or just the watercooling parts?

Get the right tools, buy lots of extra tubing, experiment and keep trying until you get it right. You will have some experience by the end of it. As long as your not impatient then it won't be doomed to failure.

JR

 

[Theyoungassassin]

Why should there be a problem, I mean provided your both remotely sane. Is $1200 your budget for the entire setup or just the watercooling parts?

Get the right tools, buy lots of extra tubing, experiment and keep trying until you get it right. You will have some experience by the end of it. As long as your not impatient then it won't be doomed to failure.

JR

Well my budget is only for the Water cooling parts, i already got the system. I have just decided that i want to watercool it.

But thanks for the respond

 

[Mysterae]

Exactly as JR23 says, right tools, plenty of spare tubing and lots of patience.

Nice cuts on the tubing and deburred so you don't damage the o-rings in the fittings, put the tubing in straight on in the fittings. Leak test at the maximum speed/pressure of your pump. A good tip here - use blue paper towels when looking for leaks, not white kitchen paper towel because you'll spot the smallest water leak far easier.

Search around the forums for info (pipe bending and such) and have a look on my build log (link in the image below). Good luck, and remember to show us what you have created .

 

[Davva2004]

There are loads of tutorials online and on YouTube about hard pipe bending, and it basically boils down to the age old principle of measure twice, cut once. Use good tools, take your time, and buy more tubing than you need because you will mess up at some point!

 

[Asperatis]

Go for it! I had never ever build a pc in my life and I've just finished my 900D build with a full custom hard line loop. I can tell you it was an amazing experience of which I've learned a whole lot. You can see what I've done in the build log "Nyssa", after two and a half weeks of patiently building.

To give you an idea about the quantity of tubes; I've used a total of 16 60cm sticks to get everything the way I wanted it without error.

If you have the patience, some common sense and the will to build a hard line loop, you should go for it ^^

 

[Theyoungassassin]

Go for it! I had never ever build a pc in my life and I've just finished my 900D build with a full custom hard line loop. I can tell you it was an amazing experience of which I've learned a whole lot. You can see what I've done in the build log "Nyssa", after two and a half weeks of patiently building.

To give you an idea about the quantity of tubes; I've used a total of 16 60cm sticks to get everything the way I wanted it without error.

If you have the patience, some common sense and the will to build a hard line loop, you should go for it ^^

WTF Thats a psyco build u got. thumbs up from me, thats really nice.

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Exactly as JR23 says, right tools, plenty of spare tubing and lots of patience.

Nice cuts on the tubing and deburred so you don't damage the o-rings in the fittings, put the tubing in straight on in the fittings. Leak test at the maximum speed/pressure of your pump. A good tip here - use blue paper towels when looking for leaks, not white kitchen paper towel because you'll spot the smallest water leak far easier.

Search around the forums for info (pipe bending and such) and have a look on my build log (link in the image below). Good luck, and remember to show us what you have created .

i must say that your build is a bid different that what i have in mind, but i guess thats the nice think about modding and PC building. Theres is never to alike. i am guessing that your build took a while, nice feature withe display

i am going to build a Orange look in a ALL custom white painted corsair graphite 780T.

Do you guys think 1200 $ is enough money. Its OLNY for water-cooling parts, i already got all the "pc hardware".

 

[Mysterae]

Assuming your $1200 is US dollars, so almost £800 UK, which is a good budget but it entirely depends on what you are going to do. What radiator, pump, how many and what type of waterblocks, how many fans, do you need a controller, how many fittings etc, the list can go on.

You need to go shopping and decide what you can afford.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Do you need a full Watercooling set up? Or is the budget purely for the hard tubing kit? If you need a full kit, what specific hardware do you have?

 

[Theyoungassassin]

Do you need a full Watercooling set up? Or is the budget purely for the hard tubing kit? If you need a full kit, what specific hardware do you have?

well it's for the hole loop.

I got an I7 4790K

2 x Asus strix 970

A sabertooth mark s Z97

A Corsair graphite 780T

16 Gigs of DDr # 2400 mhz ram.

I already got like 15 Corsair performance fans. so on that front i'm okay.

I hope its enough, ohterwise i will waid a couple og weeks.