Are bay resevoirs as good as tube? And do pumps for bay res's go inside the res?

I've used bay res for the last 2 builds and both been spot on, it's more down to personnal taste and if you can fit one in your case imo. The tube res are great for a build with not so much room.

Depends on the res you get some come with the pump in them others the pumps mount straight onto the back of the res.
 
Giggz said:
I've used bay res for the last 2 builds and both been spot on, it's more down to personnal taste and if you can fit one in your case imo. The tube res are great for a build with not so much room.

Depends on the res you get some come with the pump in them others the pumps mount straight onto the back of the res.
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And in some cases you can mount the pump seperately and just use the bay res as just a big square tank. It is as Giggz says. It's all about the look you prefer
 
I've had a bay res with pump mount on it, and found it stragely difficult to bleed. Might have just been the design of that 1 bay res, but a res is a res.

I've got for a tube res in my current build because there's no space for a bay res
 
I use a bay res at the top of my case with a pump on its own at the buttom as I havn't got the room for a tube res in my case as I wanted all the rads on the inside of my case.
One benfit of the bay res is the amount of water the thing can hold for my loop
2x140 Rad's 1x240 Rad cpu and gpu with res can hold just over 1-1/2 liters of water.
 
I've got the XSPC 720 bay res/pump combo and it's pretty nice. Only had it a few weeks but it looks great in the front of the case and the pump is really quiet.

Can't really comment on how it is to maintain / bleed etc.
 
I've had one of each so not the most experience but what I can share from my use is;

1) I found the tube res ridiculously easy to bleed. However it wasnt the best looking thing (ek basic 2.0).

2) bay res loads of choice but I really struggled to bleed it :( took almost 4 hours to get it to an adaquet lack of bubbles. (Xspc and Laing ddc 18w). Seems to be down to the placement of the inlet directly above the pumps intake. being bent at a 90 degree angle towards the pump intake the bubbles were sucked into the pump too fast to be bled. had to turn the pump right down to near stalling and lodge a piece of plastic between bay inlet and pump intake to block bubbles from being dragged straight in. Beautifully quiet compared to the tube res and pump (ek dcp 4.0).

The Laing ddc and d5s are attached to the exterior of the bay res. there is one out there that's actually inside the res I think the xspc 750.
 
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If you have a separate tube res I see others mounting the pump on a cushioned sound absorbent base which you obviously can't do with a bay res/pump combo.

Is that a problem or are the latest bay res/pump combos quiet enough these days?
 
BigBANGtheory said:
If you have a separate tube res I see others mounting the pump on a cushioned sound absorbent base which you obviously can't do with a bay res/pump combo.

Is that a problem or are the latest bay res/pump combos quiet enough these days?
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I run a dual pump bay res setup and it's silent.
 
Not really impressed with my bay reservoir. Rattles the case a bit and is a bit noisy (this may well be down to my res and not bay reservoirs in general).

Thinking about replacing it with a tube reservoir.
 
had my bay res and pump for just over 3 weeks.... thinking of switching for a tube res and seperate pump because of noise from it. If i were ordering again i would go that route.
 
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