First Water Cooled Loop

Burlyleader

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So I finally invested in a water cooled loop. Instead of buying brand new parts I decided to go look on r/hardwareswap to see if I could find some water cooling parts, I found a XSPC Res&Pump Combo, Bitspower stubby highflow barbs, a 140mm Radiator, and a XSPC CPU block. I got all of it for only $100

So I thought I would share a bit of information with everyone about my experience upgrading to a custom water cooled loop.

So to start off previously I had a Corsair H60 with a push pull set up, that was cooling my AMD FX-8320 (OC'ed to 4.5GHz) when I was idling my temps would be around 35ºC or so and I went to a hardware store, purchased a few odds and ends and put it all together in a few hours.
This is a very simple loop that still needs alot more work and just a few more things but what blew me away was the temps I was getting with such a getto ass loop. My idle temps jump between 12ºC to 20ºC and under load it has never gone over 35ºC.


Images of the Getto Loop!
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So I guess a but of advice, if you have a bit of extra money lying around and are bored and want to learn something new I would recommend watching a few videos and then going out and finding the required parts! I am forsure no expert on water cooling but if you are thinking about a water cooling loop feel free to message me or comment and make sure to check out r/hardwareswap.

Also if there are any water cooling Guru's out there that feel like giving me some advice on what to change or what I should do next feel free to let me know!
 
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Hi there :) I bought an xspc kit and now I am just about to upgrade the pump to a D5 from the xspc 750 those kits are fine for just CPU cooling but most people want their loop to include their GPU as well :)

Edit: your cpu block looks overtightened to me buddy and in the 2nd picture I can see air bubbles in the loop
 
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The cpu block looks bent... ?

It slightly is because when I got it off of r/hardwareswap the guy didnt care to send the back plate of thumb screws. Soooo I had to make due with what I had on hand.

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Hi there :) I bought an xspc kit and now I am just about to upgrade the pump to a D5 from the xspc 750 those kits are fine for just CPU cooling but most people want their loop to include their GPU as well :)

Edit: your cpu block looks overtightened to me buddy and in the 2nd picture I can see air bubbles in the loop

At the time I took those pictures the loop was not completely bleed yet and I know about the CPU block issue. I will be getting a new block soon.

Also what would you suggest if I wanted to add a GPU into the loop?
 
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I went for the bay res combo as the case I have wouldn't show off a seperate res I actually bought the XSPC D5 vario (comes with screwring and O ring) and the res separately as it worked out cheaper for me to just screw the pump into the res 2 minutes
work and £10 saved as I would have unscrewed the pump from the res anyway to make sure the O ring was fitted properly its a shame you don't live in the UK as I have 4 spare screws for your cpu block because I bought the kit that came with intel fixings as well as AMD and the screws are exactly the same :).

I would have preferred a separate res and pump for aesthetics but it really depends on what case you have.

BTW if you are going to add a GPU block please remember that the biggest radiator should cool your CPU as the GPU responds to watercooling better :)
 
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