Flexible or Hardline Tubing?

[Steveo1982]

Hi all,

Just curious to know if there are any benefits of one over the other or is it purely asthetic?

In the future I would like to fully liquid cool my 5800x and 3080 TI FE but not sure which tubing would be best.

Thanks
Steve

 

[Steveo1982]

Flexible has the benefit of being more serviceable. If you want to pull the CPU out you could just pull the block out the way and take it out. With hardline tubing you would have to drain the loop and dismantle it.

Hardline has the benefit of being less prone to discolouring and often can look better, but that's not to mean flexible can't look good.

Flexible tubing is just generally a lot easier to work with. I did hardline for my first build and have no regrets at all though.

Thanks bud. Would there be any impact to temps etc by using one over the other?

 

[Steveo1982]

Soft hose as if you can use xflow rads so the pipe work is at a minimum.
I have 2 280mm xflow rads in my loop.

Thanks all for your responses. I would go for 2 radiators xflow and a pump/res combo with GPU and CPU blocks. Go pump > GPU > CPU > Rad > Rad > Res. That sound standard or would people go Pump > GPU > Rad > Cpu > Rad > Res?

 

[Steveo1982]

Yea I think I saw a similar video a while ago. Liquid temp doesnt really change much depending on the order. I am just interested to see what approach people go with. I think 2 radiators will dissipate enough heat.

Another question is do people go push pull on the rads or just one or the other?

 

[Steveo1982]

Seen a few people with the rad at the front but with the fans set to pull air through it as it makes it easier to clean dust out of the rad. Anyone else done this or is there no benefit?