Loop improvement

tom gough · 22 Sep 2021 at 08:41

Hello, just wondering if anyone has any ideas for improving this loop? I've had it like this since last December and never had any issues but always thought it looked abit weird/messy. I want to upgrade to some bigger tubing soon but just wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions.
ignore the slightly wonky tube from the GPU, I need to sort that!
Thanks
Tom
https://imgur.com/a/Wm2FqZz

im4gine3 · 22 Sep 2021 at 09:46

other than straightening the tubes, there isn't much difference you can make tbh unless you make the CPU and GPU block into a parallel loop.

tom gough · 22 Sep 2021 at 09:55

How do you mean parallel sorry?
Thanks

Gavster · 22 Sep 2021 at 10:08

You could put the to rad so the inlet & outlet are on the opposite end then pump to the top rad, top rad to the CPU then CPU back to the Res.

im4gine3 · 22 Sep 2021 at 10:32

tom gough said:
How do you mean parallel sorry?
Thanks

This would provide better explanation than i would. Bear in mind i've not done a parallel build myself before so not sure if its component specific

https://www.ekwb.com/blog/parallel-vs-serial-loop-why-choose-one-over-the-other/

Defy Belief · 22 Sep 2021 at 12:48

If you want it cleaner, come out of the back of the gpu and down to the pump which will get rid of a huge visible tube.

That a p3 or p5? and I ran a paralell setup in my p3 with barely any visible tubing, forgive the motherboard looking a little lost as I only had an ITX board at the time

tom gough · 22 Sep 2021 at 14:06

im4gine3 said:
This would provide better explanation than i would. Bear in mind i've not done a parallel build myself before so not sure if its component specific

https://www.ekwb.com/blog/parallel-vs-serial-loop-why-choose-one-over-the-other/

Ah yeah I see that could be a shout actually I'll have a read up thanks!

tom gough · 22 Sep 2021 at 14:07

Defy Belief said:
If you want it cleaner, come out of the back of the gpu and down to the pump which will get rid of a huge visible tube.

That a p3 or p5? and I ran a paralell setup in my p3 with barely any visible tubing, forgive the motherboard looking a little lost as I only had an ITX board at the time

OOO thanks kinda cool! I do quite like having some of the pipes on show but I might try figure out a way round having some nice bends in places. I think my issue is the small pipes at the moment too as they just look abit lost inside the case.

MikeTimbers · 22 Sep 2021 at 22:12

Go on Youtube and look for "Declassified Systems" and check out the guy's pipe runs. Never seen anyone do what this guy does.

im4gine3 · 22 Sep 2021 at 22:40

MikeTimbers said:
Go on Youtube and look for "Declassified Systems" and check out the guy's pipe runs. Never seen anyone do what this guy does.

true dat.. makes me wonder if he's freestyling or using a jig? Have thought about emailing him direct on this as some of the runs i want to do have more than 3 bends in them

Vidar · 25 Sep 2021 at 18:14

Seriously need to redo those runs! They don't line up right.