FEATURED The Water-Cooled System picture thread v2.0

Silver_Pharaoh · May 23, 2016

MedRed said:
Working on a new project with old hardware. I have an epic build planned for Skylake-E, but wanted some practice bending copper ahead of time. Progress so far.

Looks beautiful! You could spray a urethane on the copper to prevent oxidization too.

Are you using special compression fittings for this? Or the standard one you can get from say, Preformance PCs for hard tubing?
I tried compression fittings with polyethylene tubing but it leaked horribly... I switched back to barbs :-/

MedRed · May 23, 2016

Thank you. I'm going to nickel or chrome the copper. Need to change the fittings for the GPU so I can run tubes to them as well. I bought the fittings from a Chinese wholesaler. We'll see if they hold up!

Bluefalcon13 · May 30, 2016

Just finished my first custom loop build. Inside an NZXT S340, with the following:

BlackIce GTS Stealth 280
Swiftech style D5
Swiftech XT rev. 2 block
Phobya tube res.

Most of the parts are second hand.

ITAngel · Jun 3, 2016

MedRed said:
Working on a new project with old hardware. I have an epic build planned for Skylake-E, but wanted some practice bending copper ahead of time. Progress so far.

WoW that looks impressive MedRed, nice work can't wait to see it finish. I myself picked up today a Core X9 to move my system from Enthoo Pro M into it with soft tubing. Some day I will be brave to do what you are doing since i think those tubing look sick!.

Good Job!

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Bluefalcon13 said:
Just finished my first custom loop build. Inside an NZXT S340, with the following:

BlackIce GTS Stealth 280
Swiftech style D5
Swiftech XT rev. 2 block
Phobya tube res.

Most of the parts are second hand.

Nice, it reminds me of my old setup Tubes of Hell. XD

Nabarun · Jun 8, 2016

My tj11 with glass tubes

Johnsal914 · Jun 10, 2016

First go at using acrylic tubing

Been playing around with flex tubing for a few years and learning the do's and don't. Decided to contribute to the local economy and spend more money than I wish to say and built my first hard tube setup. A few f-bombs later and surprised at no leakView attachment 179990 View attachment 179991 View attachment 179992s on first go. There she is...

Any seasoned pros find any issue with my setup?

Siaga · Jun 14, 2016

Here is my water cooled build
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strat1 · Aug 25, 2016

First watercooled build... Thinking to put psu with fan facing frontView attachment 182792. Any thoughts?

Trip.Jaxon · Sep 3, 2016

Looking at these set ups....I feel so inadequate...my set up on water. LoL.View attachment 183016 View attachment 183016 View attachment 183017

Bluefalcon13 · Sep 3, 2016

Trip.Jaxon said:
Looking at these set ups....I feel so inadequate...my set up on water. LoL.View attachment 183016 View attachment 183016 View attachment 183017

Trip, take a look a few posts up, I squeezed in a custom loop in my s340. Had to tear it down, gfx card RMA netted me a 780, but it was 1 inch longer

Need to buy a smaller pump now

Trip.Jaxon · Sep 3, 2016

I hope to end up getting into some custom loops, at some point, good job!

Revv323 · Nov 8, 2016

My Mini ITX Custom Loop Build.View attachment 184998

beret21 · Dec 3, 2016

Heres my pc . Not that good looking but it breathes

Bluefalcon13 · Jan 1, 2017

Update to the NZXT S340 build I did a while ago. Had to buy a new pump, and a GFX card RMA got me a 780 instead of the 670 I had before. Great but the card was an inch longer, and didn't fit with my D5 pump. Got an MCP50X pump, switched to 3/8 inch ID tubing, and got advanced lrt tubing in clear as well. The tubing was MUCH easier to work with!

Link to original post: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7933765

Overall, a much nicer tubing layout (at least I think so...), and everything fits better!

Blaylock · Jan 1, 2017

My next H₂O build will be downsized to 3/8" I.D. too. The 1/2" is just too much. Lol

cmatties · Jan 1, 2017

Here what mine looks like right now. going to changing it up here soon. Going to hard tube and adding a 360 rad and also GPU block.

View attachment 186544

Bluefalcon13 · Jan 1, 2017

cmatties said:
Here what mine looks like right now. going to changing it up here soon. Going to hard tube and adding a 360 rad and also GPU block.

View attachment 186544

If you aren't ready to dive into hard tubing, compression fitting could snazz that up a bit. I know I'll never be ready for har tubing... Too much like work, and I hate things that aren't quite perfect... Like the tube going from my res to my pump... I was not happy with the tube until I was on my third try

cmatties · Jan 2, 2017

oh i'm ready for the hard tubing. cant wait till i get it and get it in. also going to cut out the 5 1/4 bays to give it more room.

might also add the VRM and north bridge to the loop.

Dlaw · Jan 2, 2017

I'd leave the VRM/NB out. The added restriction wouldn't be worth the additional noise, in my opinion.

You can run the 360 on the top and the 240 on the bottom, eliminating the need to cut the drive bay out. With the fans mounted on the top of the 240, I'm pretty sure you could mount the drive cage on one of them and not have any clearance issues, but you'd have to measure.

Nebulous · Jan 8, 2017

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