compression fittings

robertchalmers1

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this week im going to be ordering my compression fittings, went with the monsoon 19/13mm gold ones.

question is i want inside of the case to look as neat and tidy as possible using as little tubing as poss. my last one i done i used straifgt fittings and didnt really like the amount of looped tubing there was and was considering 45 and 90 fittings question is si it really worth the extra expense to hopefully make it look neater, by that im meaning if i plan properly witth the angled fittings make a big dif to the neatness or are they more a gimmick
 
They make a huge difference to how neat and even if it isnt for that, they make life WAY easier when you have blocks and components near each other. Ill take a quick piccie of my board, as there is a ton of blocks on it and ill show you. I would not even attempt my loop without adapters tbh.

It depends on your loop though, so i suppose if you plan right and depending on the case, you might only need one or two. My tubing either kinks if i do a neat loop from block to block and the only way to avoid it without angle fittings, is to use excess tubing.

*Edit* Excuse the dust and chipped paint, these all get a clean ad a paint job next week. These are acrylic fittings but there is no reason why you cant connect tubing straight up like this if you needed to, before the acrylic was in, essentially all my other loops used a variety of fittings to miniseries the amount of tubing i put, so it all looks neat. If your loop is as hectic, rubber tubing without angle fittings will be everywhere!

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Also if you get angle fittings, always get rotary ones, or you might find that they end up useless for what you had in mind.
 
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Which block and board?

Motherboard blocks are lower than CPU blocks, and you need to line them up more or less, or you will get kinks or struggle to get it to even fit if the blocks are close together.
 
It offers no real life performance differences at normal clocks.

That is the board and blocks in the picture i posted earlier. This makes things easier, as i know what you need to level them out. A single 10mm extender on the VRM block makes the CPU and VRM fittings level. Two 90 degree EK fittings will line up with the left GPU port with an EK 90 degree fitting and 10mm extender.

So if you planned to connect the GPU, VRM and CPU without looping the tubing, you need two 10mm extenders and 5 90 degree rotary fittings. I dont know how you would do the southbridge block though, as i did two 90 degree acrylic bends to connect them up.
 
its hard to tell but i was gonny mount res on top psu then goto gpu, lower board block, cpu, rad on front of case to rad in roof to other mobo block then back to res

well that was plan i needa see how it works out
 
Well if it makes things easier, the pictures in my earlier post with the spoiler tags have the same motherboard and blocks, with the exception of an additional RAM block.
 
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