Custom Loop Guide - How to Watercool your PC

BigBANGtheory · 7 Sep 2013 at 08:22

You mentioned in the OP that an XSPC 750 Dual Bay reservoir kit has a pump basically as good as a D5 or DDC...

Is that true because there is a substantial price difference between say an XSPC D5 bay combo and the XSPC 750?

CodeMeRight · 9 Sep 2013 at 13:59

Great Thread Mate & a Sure Sticky Guide to help our New Water-Coolers set up a Basic Loop System.

9/10

d1nky · 17 Sep 2013 at 19:10

you may want to add to OP, to check the pump works before building the loop or starting anything.

I had a fright when I got to the end and first ever time I switched the pump on and it was dead.... (luckily swapped PSU and it worked)

but ive heard horror stories of people building complex loops about to leak test and the pump didn't work lol

jimhaumman · 31 Oct 2013 at 21:52

How much would cost whole set to watercool hd 7990 with i5 3570k,excluding cost of waterblock for gpu?
Would my case have enough space for watercooling equipment?
thanks

dandubi · 26 Nov 2013 at 23:11

This was a great read and has really tempted me to maybe make the switch from air to water.

Paradiso · 30 Nov 2013 at 16:30

Thanks for the guide, gonna be using it whilst building my cpu/gpu loop next week. Just hope I've got all the right bits

Szpakos · 10 Dec 2013 at 09:20

thank you, that what I need
looking forward buliding my watercooling ^^

jcablett · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:13

Thanks, the guide really helped although most of the product links are dead

gerico · 2 May 2014 at 12:52

Would be great to see the imagery for this post. Can you move the images to dropbox and link them from there to get around bandwidth issues with Photobucket?

mumihp · 4 Jun 2014 at 23:37

Great guide, made me understand more about watercooling and when I do my second build in the future, I may do watercooling. Thanks for the Info.

Disco_P · 8 Aug 2014 at 00:06

Such a good guide that I would recommend to anyone who wants to try WCing. So much simpler than the ones written by experts who have access to thousands of parts and hundreds of tools and assume everyone else does too.

Luke_Bowman · 10 Aug 2014 at 22:23

This was immensely helpful in my wc'ing build I just finished.

Followed it step by step on my phone while covering everything in kitchen towel

Jony27 · 18 Sep 2014 at 01:23

About to start my first WC in a few days.
Have a question.

How would you flush the likes of pump/res combo and cpu block?

Sarah469 · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:36

nice guide, going to use this on my new build

jonathanbruce · 11 Dec 2014 at 17:48

Hello everyone. I am also now looking into Water Cooling, but only for the cpu. If I got the Corsair H110 kit, would I need to get anything else ?

BattFink · 11 Dec 2014 at 17:59

jonathanbruce said:
Hello everyone. I am also now looking into Water Cooling, but only for the cpu. If I got the Corsair H110 kit, would I need to get anything else ?

The H110 kit will have everything you need

jonathanbruce · 11 Dec 2014 at 22:35

Ok. Thanks. What kind of temperature difference would it be, instead of running the standard stock cpu cooler that came with the 8320? I'm new to watercooling. That's why I ask.

RyanF · 30 May 2015 at 02:24

This is going to be so bloody useful in a few weeks time when I'm putting my first loop together, thanks so much dude!

.:SAmSuNG:. · 4 Jun 2015 at 19:09

Few things that could be added or changed now in 2015 to when this was written along with some better quality photos wouldnt go amiss.

D1craig · 3 Dec 2015 at 10:36

You don't say whether it needs to be distilled water or just normal tap water to rinse your new stuff. I asked in my.own thread and it was suggested not to use tap water.

going to be refering this a lot Tomorrow.

Any advice for a drain?