Enthoo Primo Watercooling build

Hi all,

I thought I would show what my Masterkleer tubing looks like after 8 months of medium usage with Mayhems Sunset yellow fluid.

All of my EK blocks and XSPC res look nice and clean after flushing through with distilled water, but the tubing isn't so great. I had read about it doing this before ordering but nothing else was in stock at the time.

I'll be using Primochill for the new loop.

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I nearly have all the parts to get my new build together. Specs will be something like this:

5960X
Gigabyte SOC Force X99
Kingston Predator 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Quad Channel
2 x R9 290X

Watercooling parts nigh on the same, just the appropriate EK Terminal for the new board and Primochill tubing instead of Masterkleer.

I'm also going to go with the following loop:

Res > CPU > quad > EK Terminal > triple rad > back to res.

This should neaten up the loop, and, with well placed QDCs should make managing it a little easier. Only going for two now, then next year when I get new GPU/GPUs I will put QDC 4's around the place to make it simple to swap bits out etc.
 
Just been playing around and have put in a mock setup of how I am hoping I can get the loop done:

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1 quick disconnect on the downward path to the triple rad that will be on the floor of the case, unsure of the other at the moment.
 
I've decided to put both quick disconnects going to the bottom rad. Male end at the top, so I can take the rad out as it isn't screwed in and in theory the rest of the loop should drain as it's at the bottom of the loop. Then I can manually drain the bottom rad. Postman has been and I'm missing the male side delivery, frustrating!

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I have the blocker for the EK terminal, the triple should be getting delivered later at my local UPS access point. So getting it running today is all dependent on the post man coming again.
 
Well, I haven't had much luck with the new build, due to my inability to do the right amount of research first! So, the triple terminal arrived, but I'd ordered the wrong blocker for it!

So, I decided to use normal tubing between the blocks. And I'd been let down by the post man as well, so QDCs can wait as well. I've done it so I can pull the bottom rad out and empty it into a bucket, so I'll sort the QDCs at a later date.

Just leak testing for now, I have to say, the motherboard and Orange Mayhems coolant looks pretty nifty.

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Another update. Finally up and running but this time with quick disconnects fitted. Wow, they are so easy, everyone should be running them!

Some quick pics. I still need to do a fair amount of tidying up, cables, getting the case panels on right etc.

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Thanks.

I have to be honest, I don't think the tubing in between the cards has been done right, and I miss the sturdiness of the EK Terminal, so I've ordered a plexi one and will get it swapped out when it arrives.
 
I'm not really happy with the tubing between the cards, but I do like the see through aspect it offers. The reason why I'm not a fan is because I'm a DUY muppet, I could never get both bits of tube the right length. As a consequence the cards slightly strain in the slot as they don't sit 100% true. It's probably not an issue at all, but it bothers me and I miss the sturdiness that the EK Terminal offers. So this turned up today along with the respective blanking plate for the middle slot.

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fantasticCG said:
Yup the Orange fluid with those 980 blocks look the nuts!
Question though that terminal block does it only work with certain water blocks? As I remember it didn't work with the EK csq titan blocks that I had, and I just used their standard csq bridge.
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The one I had with the 290X's? As I'm not using a terminal with the 980's.
 
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