First Loop need advice

rebel rebel

rebel rebel

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Good evening.

I'm just about to build my first water cooled pc. I have the following items heading my way any day now. I guess they're waiting for the GPU to be built.

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail
Product Id: CP-3B5-AM

Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard
Product Id: MB-6DY-AS

Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 16GB 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Kit
Product Id: MY-4C1-CS

Corsair Force MP510 series 960GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive (CSSD-F960GBMP510)
Product Id: HD-065-CS

OcUK Tech Labs Gigabyte Aorus Geforce RTX 2070 SUPER Water Cooled Graphics Card
Your selected configuration:
(1x) Phanteks Glacier RTX 2080Ti / 2080 / 2070 Gigabyte Aorus with RGB Lighting - Black
Product Id: WC-19B-TL

Lian-Li PC-O11 Dynamic Midi-Tower - White Window

I now need help choosing the water cooled bits. All I really know is that I want hard tubing, and a Lian Li compatible distribution board. But I'm completely clueless on what to order. My budget is around £500. I'm pretty sure that's enough.

I think I need 2 360 rads?

Edit: I'm just cooling the CPU and the graphics card.
 
What size hard tubing would I require for the following items?

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Yeah I only realised the other day that I'll have to bend the acrylic myself. Another skill to learn I guess. With the acrylic and fittings you've linked I'm pretty much there now. I think I'll be going for Mayhem X1 fluid.

And regarding the 90degree elbows, I'm not totally sure how many I'll need, until I work out how everything lies, and what tubes will be bent.

The Lian Li 011dw should be able to fit 2 360 rads, top and bottom and the distro as well.

Thanks for your help.
 
GilesGuthrie said:
If you're set on hard tubing, I'd recommend getting one of the bending kits, like this: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...be-od-12mm-id-10mm-bending-kit-wc-018-tt.html

I am awaiting that distro plate arriving to do my first watercooling loop. I'm taking the easy route and using soft tubing to get started. Something tells me that these guys on YouTube are making it look a lot easier than it actually is, and I'd rather not deal with the frustration of going through metres and metres of failed bends before I can get up & running.
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If I run into trouble I'll soon swap to soft tubing. Don't worry!

May I ask what components you are using?
 
Thanks mate, that's helped me a lot. I was going to go with a digital temp sensor, not sure which one yet.

One thing for sure is I've blown through the budget, big time.

Why are you buying 7 fans?
 
This is what I've gone for. Not sure how many of each fittings I need, so I just got 4 of each. We'll see how that works out when everything's in front of me.

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