Question Custom loop tips ?

[davgommin]

Hi all!

I´m going to build a new PC and I would like to do it with a custom loop water cooling (I am doing it for the aesthetics and because I would like to build it myself, spend hours on it, not for the performance boost).

I was thinking on the next components:

MSI B850 Gaming Plus WiFi
AMD 9 9800X3D
WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB Lian Li 011
Corsair RMe Series RM1000e 80 Plus Gold Modular
Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000MHz 32GB 2x16GB CL30


As water cooling, I was thinking on the next configuration:

Pump	D5 aqua-computer 350 ml
Radiator	Radiator Alphacool 360
Tube	Alphacool 13/10mm PETG HardTube 80cm 4 Units
Fitting	Aliexpress fittings
Fans	Fans 120 mm Barrow/Bykski
Liquid	1,4 L Barrow
CPU block	CPU block Barrow

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Any recommendations?

Regarding the pump, I was thinking on getting a D5 Barrow 350 ml (70€) instead of a aqua-computer pump (150€), is it worth it the price?

is there any recommended tutorial/youtube videos?

Thank you all

 

[Lutfij]

Got a link to the pump's you're looking at? This is to make sure we are looking at the same thing.

Since you're going with aesthetics, you're going to be fine with pretty much any pump. I would however ask you to go through the watercooling sticky, located here;

***READ FIRST*** Tom's HW Watercooling Sticky v2.0

Introduction Welcome to the world of watercooling. This guide is meant for those looking to get into watercooling or considering it as a cooling option and hobby. There is an incredible amount of information around the web and I am going to make an effort to consolidate as much as I can to...

forums.tomshardware.com

which is full of beneficial information and perhaps you can turn your aesthetic project into one that performs well and is in your system long term.

 

[faalin]

Since you are going with Alphacool 13/10mm PETG HardTube 80cm 4 Units i would recommend going with Alphacool fittings, you dont want a cheap fitting to pop apart while in use. I would also recommend their bending tool and silicone bending insert, you will also need a heat gun to soften the tube to bend it.

If this is your first time doing this, buy extra tube. there is a large learning curve to bending pipe and you are going to mess up more then once.

This was my one and only hard tube build that i did. While it was only a handful of bends there were a lot of recuts and bend do overs. I bend metal conduit for a living and even this was hard, its plastic and when heated you can shrink or extend the tube by just the slightest push or pull of the hand which can make it very hard to be precise.

Lastly be careful with colored coolants as most will stain parts. I used XSPC blood red coolant for that build, any time i used any of those parts for another build i always go a light hint of red in the coolant. Every other build i ran was distilled water, silver kill coil, and a splash of PT Nuke

 

[davgommin]

Got a link to the pump's you're looking at? This is to make sure we are looking at the same thing.

Since you're going with aesthetics, you're going to be fine with pretty much any pump. I would however ask you to go through the watercooling sticky, located here;

***READ FIRST*** Tom's HW Watercooling Sticky v2.0

Introduction Welcome to the world of watercooling. This guide is meant for those looking to get into watercooling or considering it as a cooling option and hobby. There is an incredible amount of information around the web and I am going to make an effort to consolidate as much as I can to...

forums.tomshardware.com

which is full of beneficial information and perhaps you can turn your aesthetic project into one that performs well and is in your system long term.

these are the pumps:

barrow: https://es.aliexpress.com/item/4000...param-url=scene:search|query_from:#nav-review

aqua-computer: https://shop.aquacomputer.de/Water-...rvoir-with-D5-PWM-pump::3849.html?language=en

Yes, I have already read the sticky. In fact, I took a few ideas from there =)

Since you are going with Alphacool 13/10mm PETG HardTube 80cm 4 Units i would recommend going with Alphacool fittings, you dont want a cheap fitting to pop apart while in use. I would also recommend their bending tool and silicone bending insert, you will also need a heat gun to soften the tube to bend it.

If this is your first time doing this, buy extra tube. there is a large learning curve to bending pipe and you are going to mess up more then once.

This was my one and only hard tube build that i did. While it was only a handful of bends there were a lot of recuts and bend do overs. I bend metal conduit for a living and even this was hard, its plastic and when heated you can shrink or extend the tube by just the slightest push or pull of the hand which can make it very hard to be precise.

Lastly be careful with colored coolants as most will stain parts. I used XSPC blood red coolant for that build, any time i used any of those parts for another build i always go a light hint of red in the coolant. Every other build i ran was distilled water, silver kill coil, and a splash of PT Nuke

Yes, I will perform a dry rum of the loop (with destilated water) before to connect the rest of the components.

Right now I want to do it all with fittings, and the next time I do the maintenance, I will try to remove the fittings and do the loop with manual bending, step by step =)

Thank you for the tips!