Building W/C loop questions

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Hi there

I have a couple of questions regarding the actual building of a water cooling loop which I hope someone can answer.

From reading reviews and on here, people say when they fill their loops about tilting the case to get the air to move around the loop to bleed all the air out of the loop. However I was thinking about using red tubing in my loop (instead of clear tubing and red liquid) but then how do you bleed the air out if you can’t see if there is air bubbles and where they are?

Second question is in regards to building the loop, reading the guide on xtreme systems, they list the first step as removing non essentials which listed is CPU. I was initially thinking that would screw cpu block down before adding the tubing as the ease of which to apply timm etc though I did wonder about the pressure needed to get the tubing on the barbs though. I take it though the best method is to take the cpu out, put the block roughly in position and build the loop and once leak tested use the flexibility of the tubing to move out the way so can put the cpu in, apply timm and screw down. Or is there a better method for this?

Thanks for the advice.

Greboth.
 
Thanks w3bbo :)

I knew about running the pump without having the pc running but you have answered my questions perfectly. To remove the last 5% as you say by tilting the case to move it around to loop, I assume you do this while the pump is off otherwise water flow could interfere with getting the air around the loop.
 
Thanks for all the advice guys :) Really appreciate it. Just got to save up the money for all the water cooling components now :( Oh well should be worth it.
 
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