Apologies if I have posted anything incorrectly, Im new to forum posting, however I will try my best to explain. As the title suggests, I am building the Mrs. a new pc as her laptop is packing up, and she expressed a liking for custom watercooled builds, and with me wanting to learn more about them I decided to give it a go.
I have just about gotten my head around the watercooling bit with a silly ammount of internet research, and have bought the blocks and pump/res, tubing, fittings etc, and am set to go on that. Similarly the pc is all put together with the original stock air coolers to test the components and all seems to be well, the pc posts and now has windows loaded on it. The case she decided on was the Lian-Li PC-Q37, I have followed the measurements of another persons build in the same case so that I know everything fits.
Where I have my problem is I have never worked with any RGB in any of my other personal rigs and am at a bit of a loss. I have searched the internet but everything I find doesn't help, either I dont understand or it isnt relevent to me.
I have got both of the blocks in RGB varient as well as the pump/res, all with aRGB 5V connectors, and I plan on buying a couple of RGB strips to run in the case as well as a UV light strip as the fluid will be UV reactive. I have gone for regular non RGB fans and have 6 of them in total in the build, however I have only ordered the 80mm fans that fit in the back of the case, as im not sure what the best way of hooking them all up in the pc is. I simply dont know how to plug all of that in, I believe I need some sort of hub, be it 2 seperate ones (one for fans and one for the aRGB) there is one made my EK that has poor reviews overall, and some other ones seem to be specifically for RGB fans and im not sure if i am able to use the PWM headers on that for my fans, and the acompanying aRGB headers for the blocks and other components.
So my question is basically, is it a hub I need to plug all of the RGB and fans into, and if so, is it best to go with 2 different ones, or one that consolidates both the hubs into a single one. I can give details of components if thats something you need, and any suggestions would be greatly appretiated.
Thanks for your time,
Jordan.
I have just about gotten my head around the watercooling bit with a silly ammount of internet research, and have bought the blocks and pump/res, tubing, fittings etc, and am set to go on that. Similarly the pc is all put together with the original stock air coolers to test the components and all seems to be well, the pc posts and now has windows loaded on it. The case she decided on was the Lian-Li PC-Q37, I have followed the measurements of another persons build in the same case so that I know everything fits.
Where I have my problem is I have never worked with any RGB in any of my other personal rigs and am at a bit of a loss. I have searched the internet but everything I find doesn't help, either I dont understand or it isnt relevent to me.
I have got both of the blocks in RGB varient as well as the pump/res, all with aRGB 5V connectors, and I plan on buying a couple of RGB strips to run in the case as well as a UV light strip as the fluid will be UV reactive. I have gone for regular non RGB fans and have 6 of them in total in the build, however I have only ordered the 80mm fans that fit in the back of the case, as im not sure what the best way of hooking them all up in the pc is. I simply dont know how to plug all of that in, I believe I need some sort of hub, be it 2 seperate ones (one for fans and one for the aRGB) there is one made my EK that has poor reviews overall, and some other ones seem to be specifically for RGB fans and im not sure if i am able to use the PWM headers on that for my fans, and the acompanying aRGB headers for the blocks and other components.
So my question is basically, is it a hub I need to plug all of the RGB and fans into, and if so, is it best to go with 2 different ones, or one that consolidates both the hubs into a single one. I can give details of components if thats something you need, and any suggestions would be greatly appretiated.
Thanks for your time,
Jordan.