also where can i get tubing from? most likely clear tubing? thanks
i am able to spend a quite large amount of money for the water cooling and case.
Since you're living in the UK I would suggest specialtech, or
aquatuning. I've mostly used Aquatuning for my watercooling supplies in the past few years, and have been quite happy with their service. They really have a tight grip on their logistics; if I order something and pay in the evening it has always been shipped the next day (provided everything is in stock).
I've also ordered from specialtech a few times over their eBay shop; always great service.
also would you suggest anything like these sort of things, obviously not this one but i mean like a kit with mostly all of it in ?
also for water cooling should i , as a fist time water cooler, buy something like this ?
http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop...WaterCooling-Kit--NexXxoS-XT45-pid-17309.html
with all nessasery parts in it already? thanks
Well the components in these kits are the same ones you can also buy separately, so quality is identical, and often you get a slight price advantage over buying everything separately. However, I have two reasons that have so far deterred me from buying a kit:
- pump
- pump-reservoir combinations
Clarification: Often, such as with the kit you've linked, the kits come with either a DDC pump, or something else. I would
highly recommend the D5 vario over the DDC or any other pump. There are kits that come with a D5 pump, such as
this one, but then I'm stuck with another problem: the bay-reservoir-pump combination. These combos appear to have the following problems from what I've read (never had one myself, for exactly these reasons):
- a tendency to leak (the seams appear to be tricky quality-control-wise and crack quite often),
- they do not dampen the pump very well, or at all.
A few more remarks on the pumps: The DDC is a good pump, but it can be a pain to dampen correctly and has a tendency to vibrate quite a bit more than the D5. Also, it runs hotter, and depending on the version, an additional air heatsink is sometimes recommended. Some people have said that its sound, even when dampened sufficiently, is louder than the D5's. I don't know about that since I've never had a DDC. I do have two D5's and can tell you that on setting 3 of 5 on rubber dampeners I cannot hear them outside the case at all.
I also forgot to mention the
XSPC RX radiator series in my previous post. They are also excellent, however a bit more costly than the Alphacool ones.
If you're concerned about forgetting something when buying separate components you can easily post your buying list before purchasing and ask if you've forgotten anything. And even if you've forgotten something and the rest of us overlook it as well: That's just part of watercooling; it happens
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Reading material:
Martin's Liquid Lab.
The watercooling review site. There's also
Skinnee Labs, but it hasn't been updated in a while. The information is still good though.
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