Best tubing

[71skylark]

Where is the best place to get tubing for a watercooling rig? I know this seems elementary but the last thing I want is a case full of water, and some places (dangerden.com, a place that seems to have what I want) want like $2.00 a foot. would a local pet (aquarium) store be a good place to look for this type of material?

[Morphoius]

I went to the big hardware store (home depot i think) and bought my tubing for 25cents a foot or maybe a little less. There seem to be two differant types of tubing. the plain ones and more expensive tubing with wire through it. The tubing itself is probably not going to break, but you might want to buy those small clamp things to make sure that the hoses do not come off the waterblock, ext. the tubing with the mesh through it will stop kinking and probably hold the shape better, but i just use the cheap tubing.

[JetMech]

Originally posted by Morphoius
I went to the big hardware store (home depot i think) and bought my tubing for 25cents a foot or maybe a little less. There seem to be two differant types of tubing. the plain ones and more expensive tubing with wire through it. The tubing itself is probably not going to break, but you might want to buy those small clamp things to make sure that the hoses do not come off the waterblock, ext. the tubing with the mesh through it will stop kinking and probably hold the shape better, but i just use the cheap tubing. The braided stuff will take more pressure. I know that we enjoy doing it for less in overclock but If you're going to put money into anything in that solution please make it the tubing. That and the connections are the only thing between a good cooling sys and disaster:eek: