water cooling

Long time since my last post here, but I have been working on something really special. Have recently bought a streacom DA6XL and fallen in love with the look of the case, and I knew that something special and unique can be built in such an enclosure. So the journey began, and drafted some...

I want to refresh my system from a Core i7 8700K to the latest gen Intel i7, with respective board and RAM etc. I currently have an EK X360 Extreme water cooling loop *no competitor links* I would rather not replace this, as it still works great, but the CPU block is naturally incompatible...

Morning guys, im wondering whether to do a custom loop, for two reasons to cool the cpu better than my existing AIO and the other they look cool as! Ive never done one before, ive got an i9 13900 with a Lian Li O11D Mini case. Where to start? Any advice would be cool (pun on purpose)

So I decided to build a cool and quiet rig for gaming and UE5 + Some Modelling + Whatnot Requirements: quiet proper airflow water cooled easy to maintain 560mm radiator as tidy as possible as cool as possible as compact as possible a decent audio interface speedy front IO decent looks...

Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 ATX Motherboard is this motherboard compatible with ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler More or less question above. I have decided to change a build i am going for. From air to water cooling and the arctic cooler is...

Hi guys, I have just put in my order for a the new Hyte Y40 as it looks really cool. when i get it ill be upgrading from a Mini ITX (Dan A4 clone) to it. Ill be moving all my stuff to the new case including the mini ITX mother board. Some things ill be upgrading will be the PUS to an ATX one...

hi i just noiced in HWINFO in the windows error bit it said i have errors under cpu and another one with cpu in it so did intel extreme tuning utility benchmark and it pop up with another error so did it again and the pc blue screen and come up with the message saying overclock unstable and had...

Hello :) I have the razer edition lian li 011 dynamic. Looking to water cool both gpu and cpu. 2 x 360mm radiators ideally. cpu is raptor lake i5 and gpu is gainward rtx 4090. My plan is to have one radiator at the top in-taking cool air, then one at the bottom also in-taking cool air...

hi all what are the diffs from Aqua Computer Dr. Drop Professional Pressure Tester Including Air Pump Vs Aqua Computer Dr. Drop Pressure Tester Including Air Pump?

hi i have a EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Kinetic TBE 300 D5 PWM D-RGB Pump / Reservoir Combo - Plexi https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ek-water-blocks-ek-quantum-kinetic-tbe-300-d5-pwm-d-rgb-pump-reservoir-combo-plexi-wc-9wv-ek.html im thinking of getting a EK Water Blocks EK-RES X3 - Multiport...

hi all im thinking about getting a set of QUICK DISCONNECT fittings for my cpu and gpu and was wondering do i need a male and female fitting for ech port and is there anything else i need to order for them il looking at Koolance QD3 Female Quick Disconnect No-Spill Coupling, Compression for...

hi i noiced there is 2 ports on front top of Radiator and 2 on the front side can you use the 2 on front side insted? sum of my fans are blocking the top part the manual makes it look like you can use them just wanted to make sure

Watercooling newbie question. Building a new desktop PC - mainly photo-editing (big RAW files) and a wee bit of video. i9-12900K. 64GB Crucial DDR5 - 4800. Stock Intel video for a couple of months until I get the pennies for a 3070 / 3080. Here's the Question. I plan to watercool with a 360mm...

Hi all my friend currently has the Rtx 2080 ti 11gb sea hawk ek x. He has decided he doesn't want to use his system with the custom loop anymore. My question is can I convert this card from a water-cooled block to a standard Air cooled block or even put on the aio system the sea hawk x uses...

Hi, Apparently the card takes the MSI Gaming X trio water block for Navi 21. I have never water cooled before, I was wondering if there is anyone that has similar experience that can offer me a step by step or some useful tips to water cool this card safely. I have heard issues with mixing...

CYBERPUNK 2077 PROJECT QUADRA This build is inspired by the game cyberpunk 2077 and the legendary Quadra Turbo-R V-Tech car that can be seen in trailers etc. You have seen a couple of builds based on the game but since no one based a build on the iconic car from the game it was perfect...

Hi, I am doing a build to reduce the temps on my 3090. The 3090 will be the only thing on the loop. Parts list: Rad - 420mm going at front Fans - 3 x 140mm going at front Distro plate - Phanteks D140 rear 140mm mounted (distro plate is actually 2 mini separate reservoirs) Pump - EK Quantum...

I am in the process of changing cases and have forgotten how to connect my ID Cooling Auraflow pump. There is a 3 pin connector coming from the pump which I believe powers it but I have no 3 pin socket in the motherboard. Am I missing an adaptor? Please see photos attached for more info. Any...

So I am wanting to do a new water build. This has been a long term plan but I now have the money to do so. I don't often upgrade a pc the last one is 7 years old as I do Laptop Upgrades in between. My main question is on Three things. The first is how hard it hardline tubing to work with. My...

Hi guys, new to the forum and watercooling! Just built my first water cooled rig, pretty impressed with myself to be honest! Didn't think it would come out as clean as it did! Only made 1 mistake with PETG tubing too. So I installed everything and started to fill the Corsair XD5 pump/res...