Considering a custom loop setup sometime soon...

Ollie1132 · 29 May 2012 at 18:54

Ah and if you had fans at the back they would be pulling through as well hence push/pull? ^.^

zx|muppet · 29 May 2012 at 19:00

got it in one

Ollie1132 · 29 May 2012 at 19:01

I see

so the advantages of push/pull airflow is that the air is moving a lot faster through the case as well as the rads?

Ollie1132 · 29 May 2012 at 19:29

also, where on the internet can I get deionized/distilled water? xD and.. Im really tempted to use Mayhem green dye cause it will look so nice but will mean changing all my LED's

Ollie1132 · 30 May 2012 at 00:34

Think Im going to put a window in the side panel of my CM storm trooper

hyperst · 30 May 2012 at 01:22

I'd recommend two (two should be enough usually) bottles of EK coolant or Mayhems coolant as it will have extra's in it usually over deionized/distilled (I think, you could check first) also the use of compression fittings is a better look imo, EK's compression fittings are very reasonable priced and look nice in black and they do 7/16 x 5/8.

Ollie1132 · 30 May 2012 at 01:25

I'll look into the compression fittings in a bit

could you chuck me a link to one of Mayhems/Ek's coolants? I'm taking it I would still need a kill coil with either?

hyperst · 30 May 2012 at 01:27

Here is OcUK's coolant page, they do EK and Mayhems, they have no blood red at the moment of EK's, looks like I got the last couple

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=962&catid=1531&rows=0

Oh, and yeah, I use a kill coil still

Ollie1132 · 30 May 2012 at 01:29

DAMN YOU! Luckily I can't buy anything till june so it's alright

This one looks quite nice

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-009-MH&tool=3

Ollie1132 · 30 May 2012 at 01:38

Would that work with the res + pump that zx suggested?

hyperst · 30 May 2012 at 01:47

Ollie1132 said:
DAMN YOU! Luckily I can't buy anything till june so it's alright This one looks quite nice http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-009-MH&tool=3

Yeah it looks nice, only really for show use though, it soon dies.

Ollie1132 said:
Would that work with the res + pump that zx suggested?

Heres a pic of mine with EK blood red, still some stuff to do to mine, it's never ending once you go down this route

Ollie1132 · 30 May 2012 at 02:02

That looks quite nice

and I'm aware

I literally just built this PC and I'm already itching for the next challenge

hm might go for the one you have... definately going to need a window in my storm trooper though

Ollie1132 · 30 May 2012 at 02:13

Just looked at you're build log in you're sig... so beautiful

can't wait now lol... building a PC is like the best hobby in the world... I think it even out does my gaming hobby in all honesty

Ollie1132 · 30 May 2012 at 04:38

See how Mayhem suggest 1 kill coil per 1/2 litre of liquid if my loop uses 2L thats 4 kill coils right? what the hell do I actually do with 4 kill coils? xD also I don't think I can move my HDD bays again (the metal just cross threaded when I changed them) that wouldn't really be a problem would it?

Also I'm already thinking of what to name my build ahah.. got to love wanting to build stuff ^.^

Ollie1132 · 8 Jun 2012 at 18:28

Hm I was thinking of putting the 120mm rad where the 140mm fan mount is on the back of my case but.. if I want a push/pull config then I'm not sure it would fit there :/ Also one of the pads on the bottom of my Storm Troopers feet has come off and now it wobbles D:

zx|muppet · 8 Jun 2012 at 23:58

No way on earth will you use 2 ltrs of water! I only used just under a ltr. Then again it depends on that re you use :-)

also just run the one at the rear with 1 fan? I can promise you won't see any difference!

Ollie1132 · 9 Jun 2012 at 00:08

Well Ill have to wait till I can get my rig on its side and properly measure everything out

but the EK coolstream 240mm rad Im looking at has a depth of 47mm add on the basic 25mm depth of a fan and you get around 72mm which would be about 2-5mm too big but Ill see it can always go on the bottom of the case where I have it in the picture and I can just take out my bottom HDD cage to put the pump in possibly.