Surfie
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Hi peeps,
This is mainly just a shout out to those that know/are interested in my water cooling loop, which was put together in Project DSV. It is time for a tear down and clean, and while planning that, there are a few things which I am kicking around in my head as ideas for me to take up when putting it all back together, mostly as a way of improving the visuals of the loop.
What I have now, in terms of visible hose, is essentially four somewhat parrallel runs of hose, none of which are particularly long, but all of which are extremely visible, as they are near the front of the case (generally speaking).
In my head, I am thinking of a way to counter that problem. If you refer to my pictures in the DSV build log, you will notice that some hose will be visible. There is not a lot I can do about that, particularly the runs between cpu, gpu and res (and to a lesser degree, the run from res to the small rad. What I can do however is to rotate the top rad, so that the end tanks are towards the front of the case, this will remove one run from the picture, and to counter the long run from the front of the rad to the next component (either cpu or res, depending on what my final decision on layout/loop order will be), simply cur the hose a little longer, but route it so the hose is hidden either behind the mb tray or rad itself, sure some will still be visible, but if I do it right, it should be very little. If routing to the res, it's easier: run the route behind the res. This would then leave the return to the first (small) rad as being either a long run from the gpu or a short but extremely visible run from the res. The latter, being a short run is easy to swallow, on the other hand, long runs give me an opportunity for more hose obfuscation: again, either behind the motherboard tray, or back and then along the motherboard itself.
What are your thoughts? Am I needlessly making my life more complicated?
This is mainly just a shout out to those that know/are interested in my water cooling loop, which was put together in Project DSV. It is time for a tear down and clean, and while planning that, there are a few things which I am kicking around in my head as ideas for me to take up when putting it all back together, mostly as a way of improving the visuals of the loop.
What I have now, in terms of visible hose, is essentially four somewhat parrallel runs of hose, none of which are particularly long, but all of which are extremely visible, as they are near the front of the case (generally speaking).
In my head, I am thinking of a way to counter that problem. If you refer to my pictures in the DSV build log, you will notice that some hose will be visible. There is not a lot I can do about that, particularly the runs between cpu, gpu and res (and to a lesser degree, the run from res to the small rad. What I can do however is to rotate the top rad, so that the end tanks are towards the front of the case, this will remove one run from the picture, and to counter the long run from the front of the rad to the next component (either cpu or res, depending on what my final decision on layout/loop order will be), simply cur the hose a little longer, but route it so the hose is hidden either behind the mb tray or rad itself, sure some will still be visible, but if I do it right, it should be very little. If routing to the res, it's easier: run the route behind the res. This would then leave the return to the first (small) rad as being either a long run from the gpu or a short but extremely visible run from the res. The latter, being a short run is easy to swallow, on the other hand, long runs give me an opportunity for more hose obfuscation: again, either behind the motherboard tray, or back and then along the motherboard itself.
What are your thoughts? Am I needlessly making my life more complicated?
