Babies first Loop!

Mippie

Mippie

Mippie

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Hey guys,

I am designing a new build and am venturing into watercooling for the first time...i have a lot of questions lol

I have am thinking of the current pieces:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ek-water-blocks-ek-xres-140-revo-d5-pwm-incl.-pump-wc-886-ek.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xspc-raystorm-pro-water-block-amd-am4-black-wc-416-xs.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xspc-razor-gtx-1080-1070-full-cover-water-block-wc-40c-xs.html

So i can see that both my blocks are copper which i understand to be important, and they both have 1/4" fittings. What i dont understand is what fittings i need for the reservoir or pump. I am looking for some advice on what fittings i need for the reservoir/pump, and some suggestions around the tubes etc.

Also what is a good radiator, i was thinking of a 240mm as that seems to be fairly standard, would one radiator be sufficient for a cpu/gpu loop?

Thanks All
 
oh yeah, cause im a scrub i havent selected a case yet - probably looking at a mid tower - so any additional suggestions there would be great
 
righto...and I am assuming you want a rad between each section of the loop right ? so would I be looking at:
res/pump > rad > cpu > rad > gpu?

I think soft tubing would be best for my first attempt! I am assuming that as all fittings are 1/4" it's then a question of what size piping and subsequently what size compression fittings I need?
 
that's fair, thanks for the comments. so just for clarity the fittings onto the blocks and radiators etc are 1/4" but then the barbs/compression fittings go from 1/4 to whatever size pipe (based on the fitting)

are the ek combined pump/reservoirs quite well considered? they seem to be used quite a bit so I am assuming they are decent
 
thanks for the advice...the only reason I was looking at the predator was due to the ease of combined pump and reservoir.

how much hassle are separate pumps and reservoir? cause the pump needs to be after the reservoir?
 
ahhh....doh so that's me being dopey...the predator is the premier built loop...I was going to go custom so the separate components are generally okay though right?
 
hahha whoops that was auto correct...was meant to say pre built

thanks for the info will look at them also :-)

want to see what the ryzen reviews come out with before finalising
 
So,

this is my rough idea. the blue is the rad/pump (looking at the EK one) the front radiator is a 240, and top 360, and the green is basically the block or cpu and GPU.

I think this is fairly standard from what i have seen.

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