What looks better? Bend my tubing or use Elbow fittings?

[jimthenagual]

Looking for some different opinions on my new system.

What looks better, custom bends, or elbow fittings for the curves of the tubing?

 

[JRock247]

Custom bends in my opinion, LOVE that look!

 

[g-unit1111]

I love the metal tubing / pipes look. I am thinking of doing that on my AMD build. Just got to get a new GPU. :lol:

 

[USAFRet]

Either way.
The bent tubes look more flowy...organic.
The elbow fittings look more industrial.

What look are you aiming for?

 

[jimthenagual]

I'm torn between the two. In my last build I did custom bends, so I know what I'm getting in to. It is very hard to get clean bends. If I'm going to go this route, I'll buy a LOT of tubing, as I know I'll be redoing the bends until they're perfect. But tubing is cheap so no big deal.

Elbow fittings do look sexy. But that jacks up the cost of the build quite a bit. After forking out for the GPU I'm already way over budget. It's a lot easier to do though.

Leaning towards bending I think.

 

[CountMike]

Less fittings the better. each fitting presents at leas 2 opportunities for a leak !!!