Custom Loop Build (Help)
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Yeah deionised will be fine. Run the blitz stuff through it, empty, then fill back up with deionised and run it up for a bit, flush and refill with your coolant.Great thanks, if im just flushing the system i can just use deionised water?
For a first stab I would go with soft tubing and barbs. Barbs are much easier to handle than compression fittings in my experience. So much so that I went back to them when I recently redid my loop after an upgrade.
My limited experience of rotaries is that they leak if under any sideways pressure. I hardly use them any more, I have one on a straight vertical drop from res to pump.
The drain valve (koolance) I had must have been too narrow, it was barely a trickle. I can actually swing the entire Res/pump part of my loop out of my case and I found it easier and faster to just undo the pump outlet.
I wouldn't bother doing a GPU, you can get decent air coolers on factory oc'd boards and I've never found mine to be thermally constrained to the extent I got any significant advantage from the cooler temps. I found it a royal PITA fitting the blocks, and even more annoying when you want to upgrade GPUs.
For flushing I just run mine through hot water in the bath! Can rinse with distilled or whatever afterwards if paranoid (I didn't bother).
My limited experience of rotaries is that they leak if under any sideways pressure. I hardly use them any more, I have one on a straight vertical drop from res to pump.
The drain valve (koolance) I had must have been too narrow, it was barely a trickle. I can actually swing the entire Res/pump part of my loop out of my case and I found it easier and faster to just undo the pump outlet.
I wouldn't bother doing a GPU, you can get decent air coolers on factory oc'd boards and I've never found mine to be thermally constrained to the extent I got any significant advantage from the cooler temps. I found it a royal PITA fitting the blocks, and even more annoying when you want to upgrade GPUs.
For flushing I just run mine through hot water in the bath! Can rinse with distilled or whatever afterwards if paranoid (I didn't bother).