Any final thoughts for beginner before filling with water

Looks like a nice little build. I would just go through every fitting one after the other to check for tightness, then cover it all in paper towel and fill it up. How are you planning to use that drain port in the loop? It should be the lowest point, plus it looks very tight to your gpu?
 
Only place I could fit it in. Absolutely no room at the bottom. I can put the xae on the face when draining and it will be the lowest point than.
I will fit rotary 90 degree angled to the valve and it should flow nicely. Compression with tube would fit as well to the valve but tight fit.

It is mini itx in end. Should have picked a bigger case for the first time but like challange and not much space on the desk
 
I would recommend start just the pump without the system powering up, specially if it's your first attempt. My PSU has the adapter.
Soft tubing is more forgiving, and being tightened enough, correct fittings, should be all fine.
 
razor007 said:
Guys I filled the loop. So far I cannot see anything. Cant see any air trapped in there but it is so tight u can hardly see anything.
Git it on external psu.

How long to I need to keep it running?
Do I need to fill the tank more?

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I ran mine for about half an hour before I decided it wasn't going to leak and filled it with my coolant :p Some people say to run for 12-24 hours but that's your call. Personally I think any leaks would show up pretty quickly if it was going to.

Coolant level looks fine, you can pretty much fill it to the top if you like.
 
Thanks a lot.
I will leave it for the night to be on a safer side.
The real pain is going to start later when I have to complete cable management at the back with hardly any room for cables
 
I feel for you there. I have a mid tower case and that was challenging enough to fit watercooling in and make the wiring neat.
 
Every now and then
Slowly open one
Of the blanks/stops on top
Of the reservoir
Should hear some air escape
And if coolant goes down
When doing this
then top it up
 
11h was running with no issues. Cannot see any bubbles, level of fluid in res stabilised. I have switched the pump off and will be doing some cable man later :) I will update once up and running properly. Hope it will be a success
 
6700k at 1.248 voltage

Starting to wonder whether I left the protective foil on the block when installing or whether removed it, going crazy.
Set my pump at 2.5k rpm and sits at 35 according to bios readouts
 
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razor007 said:
6700k at 1.248 voltage

Starting to wonder whether I left the protective foil on the block when installing or whether removed it, going crazy.
Set my pump at 2.5k rpm and sits at 35 according to bios readouts
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Good thing with soft tubing is that there should be some play to unscrew it and at least move it out slightly to check if you’ve done that
 
I looked underneath with dentist mirror and cannot see any traces of foil. Run aide synthetic fdu test peak at 83, stress test at 61 similar to cinebench.
After fdu test it dropped fast to 26 idle and is holding around that temp. Still expecting better but cannot really compare ?

Are those temps ok?
No concerns over gpu
 
razor007 said:
I looked underneath with dentist mirror and cannot see any traces of foil. Run aide synthetic fdu test peak at 83, stress test at 61 similar to cinebench.
After fdu test it dropped fast to 26 idle and is holding around that temp. Still expecting better but cannot really compare ?

Are those temps ok?
No concerns over gpu
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Wait a 6700k is 4ghz at stock isn’t it? Seems high for stock settings.

I assume you used thermal paste :D
 
Temps do seem high. What's your total rad space?

Could be an air lock. Have you tried tipping the case at different angles, changing speeds, pinching tubes etc?

I always use thermal grizzly for thermal paste, and my CPU is delidded, so it's hard for me to offer an analogous comparison for you. For reference I've got a 240 & 360, specs in Sig. I hit about 45 on GPU (hefty OC) and 50 on CPU (mild OC) heavy load. The room is cooler this time of year.
 
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