New to watercooling... HELP!!

Yeah mate I had one of them turn up and it was damaged and bent so sent it back. Came out from the rad a little to far for my liking as well unfortunately.
 
paulstung said:
You should be Ok with the XSPC tube mate, it is only the Mayhems pastel range that causes the leaching problem.
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I wouldn't be so sure about that, Paul :)

With Mayhems X1 UV green and XSPC UV green tubing, all three of my blocks looked like this before I did my recent rebuild:

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That tubing was on it's second build to be reasonably fair, but still.
Fwiw, the performance hit wasn't as bad as you might think tbh. In the region of 10-15°C rise or thereabouts.
 
Hi guys,

So got the setup all up and running, been going for good 4/5 hours. I have no air in my tubing or rads etc but I still have small air bubbles in the res any ideas?
Also running my i7 at stock with turbo up to 4.4 and seeing temps in 60 in BF4. Is this normal or a little too high? My 980 does seem to go past 36 so far in games or benchmarks.
 
Brill, thanks for that mate. I will keep an eye on it then. Dead happy with myself for doing this. Filling an electrical bit of kit with water never sat well with me :P
 
By the way, I assume that your reservoir has a fill port on the top? If so, then leave it open for a day or so as it'll help the air bubbles clear. If you don't then the air will have nowhere to go. You might also have a cheeky little bubble hidden in a radiator too.

I usually run my system with the fill port plug out for a couple of days after filling.
 
I did have I out for an hour or two but put it back in when I moved the case. Just removed it. Did give the case a number good rocks and haven't seen any air bubbles shoot down the tubes for a while now :)
 
Hi guys, so been running this for a few days now and seeing temps not quite what I expected. I am just wondering if I have to much resistance in my loop. Would I benefit from changing my setup to pump/res to red to rad to CPU to GPU and back to the pump/res?
 
What are your temperatures of your CPU/gpu at Idle and at load?

The 4790k is an extremely hard CPU to cool,if you want to see massive temp reductions you will have to delid the cpu im afraid.Your post from last week with your temps seem about right for the config of your parts.

Edit: Build looks very good by the way,love me some green :D
 
Yeah figured as much with the CPU. I have seen it constantly over 60 but had it hit 70 the other day. That being said I increased the pumps RPM and the temperature dropped. GPU is hitting mid 40s. Maybe I am just overly ambitions and unrealistic but being my first water cooling build I guess I wasn't sure what to expect.
 
Swagger187 said:
Yeah figured as much with the CPU. I have seen it constantly over 60 but had it hit 70 the other day. That being said I increased the pumps RPM and the temperature dropped. GPU is hitting mid 40s. Maybe I am just overly ambitions and unrealistic but being my first water cooling build I guess I wasn't sure what to expect.
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You could delid? most people tend to lose 15-20c after doing so.

I take it you also updated the mobo bios when you built it so not to encounter the overvolting problem with the z97 mobos?
 
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