Corsair 900D Liquid Cooling Questions

Mlg_twerking

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This is the build I am planning to do: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/d7z9vK
All I need to find are the fittings and tubing needed for this, and I don't know enough about that to know how many fittings I would need. Can anyone give me a rough estimate on how many fittings I need (I would like black fittings if possible) and which fittings to get? Also if there are any incompatibilities or I am leaving something out of this build please let me know. Also, I need a way to get all of the fans plugged in. Using a fan controller would be fine with me, but there will probably be at least 12 fans to plug in, maybe even 16, so I would definitely need some kind of fan splitter or something, perhaps this: http://www.frozencpu.com/products/14665/ele-991/4-Pin_Power_Distribution_PCB_8xWay_Block_MMT-PCB-4-83.html?tl=g47c121s424#blank
Red colored power supply cables would also be nice, if I could get a link to those.
Was also wondering about this for the motherboard http://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-fb-kit-asus-r4be-nickel.html
I'm in the US if that helps. Summing it up: I need black tubing, black fittings, and red colored power cables. Everything helps, thanks so much! Any suggestions and help is appreciated.
 
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I'd strongly recommend reading through the watercooling sticky, linked in my sig line below.

There are a lot of questions you are asking that you can easily answer and there's a lot of things you aren't asking that you possibly should be...simply put, the WC sticky should help you on both accounts.

As a general rule, you want 2 fittings for each block or component...one inlet and one outlet. These can either be compression fittings or barbs. Some pumps come with barbed-ends or you can also get some that require G 1/4 fittings. Please note: G 1/4 refers to the fitting thread size, not the ID or OD of the tubing to be used. G 1/4 is one of the most common threads, and you then need to account for tubing ID and OD. This is covered...

rubix_1011

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I'd strongly recommend reading through the watercooling sticky, linked in my sig line below.

There are a lot of questions you are asking that you can easily answer and there's a lot of things you aren't asking that you possibly should be...simply put, the WC sticky should help you on both accounts.

As a general rule, you want 2 fittings for each block or component...one inlet and one outlet. These can either be compression fittings or barbs. Some pumps come with barbed-ends or you can also get some that require G 1/4 fittings. Please note: G 1/4 refers to the fitting thread size, not the ID or OD of the tubing to be used. G 1/4 is one of the most common threads, and you then need to account for tubing ID and OD. This is covered in the sticky, along with pumps, how to account for total loop TDP in watts and cooling potential of radiators as a value of Delta-T.
 
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