Recommendations for new reservoir mounting

Mattr

Mattr

Mattr

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Hey all,

Recently posted about my new loop and had great advice. I'm now wanting to make a slight tweak to the loop to make it really complete and would like some recommendations.

The current res is sort of haphazardly screwed in via one screw to the PSU shroud grating which doesn't feel like how I'd like to be for a long period. Can see it just behind the GPU.

I'd quite like to mount a cylindrical res to the front 360mm radiator and I'm looking for some advice on:

-Reservoir
-Mounting hardware (2x120mm space available as PSU shroud blocks bottom fan)
-Pump (unless new res can accommodate my dc-lt 2600?)

Greatly appreciate any help/advice as I'm a bit stuck. Is this where you would put the res if it were your system?

Edit: This is what I had in mind:

ThermalTake Pacific PR22-DDC Reservoir/Pump Combo

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You have a long tube there from front res going down to what looks like gpu block. If you could find the mounting equipment to stick it on the front rad you could just stick it in the middle of that bit of tubing.
 
Mounting to the front radiator might be fine, but be wary of the dimensions of reservoir. I bought an EK quantum kinetic TBE 200 and it was too thick to not foul the PSU shroud, and too tall to use the top inlet. The product you mentioned is 210mm tall, so even mounted at the bottom of the middle fan position of the front rad, it's going to be tight if you want to do top inlet. Maybe impossible as the top rad fans seem to overhang the front radiator space.
 
TT158 said:
Mounting to the front radiator might be fine, but be wary of the dimensions of reservoir. I bought an EK quantum kinetic TBE 200 and it was too thick to not foul the PSU shroud, and too tall to use the top inlet. The product you mentioned is 210mm tall, so even mounted at the bottom of the middle fan position of the front rad, it's going to be tight if you want to do top inlet. Maybe impossible as the top rad fans seem to overhang the front radiator space.
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Good point, it probably wouldn't fit actually. I was looking at EK reservoir/pump combos and it's very frustrating that they all feature bottom mounting, when the corsair 4000d is quite devoid of any capability to do this!
 
Mattr said:
Good point, it probably wouldn't fit actually. I was looking at EK reservoir/pump combos and it's very frustrating that they all feature bottom mounting, when the corsair 4000d is quite devoid of any capability to do this!
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You can however get a fan bracket and you bolt the back of the pump to the bracket, so it's vertical, but suspended from the side of the pump unit, if that makes sense?
 
 
No, they're not any louder in my experience and I have two of each. Like any pump the question is how you mount it. A little bit of rubber below the pump and you're good.
 
Thanks all for advice. Went for XD5 in the end - think it’s a really neat res with plenty of opportunity to change my runs around. Would anyone run their tubing differently here? I’m wondering how I can minimise curves.

I’d like to go to inlet at top of res from 360 rad but the soft tubing just does not like to go that way... Would a 45° fitting help here?

Bottom left res -> GPU -> 240 top rad -> CPU -> 360 front rad -> res

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To reduce tubing you could potentially go reservoir -> GPU -> CPU -> top radiator (rotate it 180 so that ports are at the front) -> front radiator -> top of reservoir.

Only issue might be that it's very tight at the front and a bit tricky to connect the top and front radiators. The right combination of fixed connectors could achieve it though.

Otherwise, like you say, a 45 degree fitting at the top of the reservoir could help. Another for the exit from the front rad, instead of the 90, would make it easier, too.
 
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