yes i have seen them i already have a pack in my basket
Hard or soft
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yes i have seen them i already have a pack in my basket
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Good job
Surprisingly most people never heard of them
i cant see my loop temps getting anywhere near 40c but better safe than sorry
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Yeah the inserts are cheap any way
Think mine got to 35c during the summer
Though depends what components you use obviously
This time of year its sitting at 26c
Under long gaming load my 280mm aio liquid temps would go to 32c I’m now running dual 360’s. I’m hoping for silent.
Cou is only a 13500. But I am adding a 3080
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Yeah I have a 5950x
Lot of cores in there to heat things up
And all core overclock to 4.5ghz
Plus a 3080ti in the loop
Adds up to a fair few watts
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Been very successful with the 3080ti
Set a curve and dropped power %
Think got it from 400w
Down to 280w
Not noticed any great performance hit
Probably be a difference in a benchmark
But real life useage is more important to me
yer i have the same with a 3090.
but TBF i found upping the power % helped with performance. i did manage about 950mv on the core.
managed to find a photo of my old system and soft tubing looked good in it but it was itx, and think in a much bigger case the hard tube will look better
So before i click buy is there anuthing wrong with this?
i have 4 runs to do and the longest is 300mm and if i get 4m of pipe that should do i, i mean come on how wrong and things go
My basket at OcUK:
So before i click buy is there anuthing wrong with this?
i have 4 runs to do and the longest is 300mm and if i get 4m of pipe that should do i, i mean come on how wrong and things go
My basket at OcUK:
- 4 x XSPC PETG Tubing 14/10mm 2x0.5m (Clear) (SKU: WC-337-XS) = £4.99
- 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-HD PETG Insert 10/12mm (10pcs) (SKU: WC-9SZ-EK) = £4.49
- 2 x Barrow 90 Degree Rotary Fitting - Black (SKU: WC-07P-BA) = £6.95
- 8 x Barrow 14mm Hardtube Fitting - Black (SKU: WC-0C9-BA) = £4.49
- 1 x Bitspower Touchaqua 30mm Extender Fitting - Black (2 PCS ) (SKU: WC-682-BP) = £4.99
- 1 x Bitspower Hard Tube Silicone Bending for ID 10mm for 12mm Tubing - 1M (SKU: WC-65R-BP) = £3.95
Total: £83.20 (includes delivery: £0.00)
£4
(incl. VAT)
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That Samsung ssd looks familiar lolmanaged to find a photo of my old system and soft tubing looked good in it but it was itx, and think in a much bigger case the hard tube will look better
Must admit
I have went off clear tubing
Much prefer the epdm/zmt stuff now
But yeah in much bigger case hard tubes probably
Going to look better
Was going to hard tube mine
Then at last second found out my v1 distro
Isn't matrix 7
So nothing lined up
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Drain valve?managed to find a photo of my old system and soft tubing looked good in it but it was itx, and think in a much bigger case the hard tube will look better
So before i click buy is there anuthing wrong with this?
i have 4 runs to do and the longest is 300mm and if i get 4m of pipe that should do i, i mean come on how wrong and things go
My basket at OcUK:
- 4 x XSPC PETG Tubing 14/10mm 2x0.5m (Clear) (SKU: WC-337-XS) = £4.99
- 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-HD PETG Insert 10/12mm (10pcs) (SKU: WC-9SZ-EK) = £4.49
- 2 x Barrow 90 Degree Rotary Fitting - Black (SKU: WC-07P-BA) = £6.95
- 8 x Barrow 14mm Hardtube Fitting - Black (SKU: WC-0C9-BA) = £4.49
- 1 x Bitspower Touchaqua 30mm Extender Fitting - Black (2 PCS ) (SKU: WC-682-BP) = £4.99
- 1 x Bitspower Hard Tube Silicone Bending for ID 10mm for 12mm Tubing - 1M (SKU: WC-65R-BP) = £3.95
Total: £83.20 (includes delivery: £0.00)
Or already got one
That tubing so cheap
Buying a load extra just in case
Isn't going to hurt too much
Seems ok
Got a reamer/chamfer tool?
Heat gun?
£4
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yes i have this stuff already.
thats a good idea normally i lay a system down and cut a pipe... this will not be an option anymore
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Yeah definitely get a drain valve then
My latest method of draining
250ml syringe
1 metre of 6mm aquarium soft tubing
Shove the tubing down an open port
In distro/reservoir
Just suck the coolant out lol
Even with a drain valve coolant gets left in gpu ,bottom radiator usually
Combining the syringe with a leak/air tester
I can suck most out
Then use the leak tester to move the rest to where
I can suck it out
Sounds weird probably lol
But in practice it actually works great
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Did it when I was trying to find
Which ports to use on the gpu active backplate
Tried all 6 combinations
By the end of doing that I had it down to
A fine art lol
Whatever works no matter how you do it
Would be fun to take it a step further
Use a vacuum pump
Fill and drain by vacuum pump
Similar idea to what leakshield can do
If you buy the add ons for it
But using an old pump I cut out of an inflatable mattress
Before I threw it out
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Looks like your already set on hard tubing but I've always been a strong supporter on soft tubing mainly because its easier to work with an safer than hard tubing. Can easily bend a block out of the way if you need to check your cpu mount or change a component. Would have to drain and distmantle with hard tubing. Tubing is clamped onto fittings rather than just relying on the presson from O rings to keep it in place, all good until your coolant gets hot and deforms your tubing in the summer heatwave 
. Systems tend to look very similar when using hard tubing, especially if distroplates are using. Soft tubing can still look good if you plan your runs and dont use excessive amounts of tubing. Hard tubing does look nice if you don't get your bends right but tubing doesn't run parallel or your bend collapse then it starts to look very bad imo.
. Systems tend to look very similar when using hard tubing, especially if distroplates are using. Soft tubing can still look good if you plan your runs and dont use excessive amounts of tubing. Hard tubing does look nice if you don't get your bends right but tubing doesn't run parallel or your bend collapse then it starts to look very bad imo.Believe my mind is not net made up haha. I’ve ordered a pack of tubing for a £5er just to see how bends go and if I can make a set shape.
But I do agree soft tube looks good it’s all I have ever used and always been happy, but if we just stuck with what we can comfortably with…. We would get nowhere
But I do agree soft tube looks good it’s all I have ever used and always been happy, but if we just stuck with what we can comfortably with…. We would get nowhere
The other very good thing about soft tubing is it can make bleeding the air out of the loop much easier, certainly if you have a tube res. Depending on how your components are arranged it can be advantageous to be able to pop the res out of its clamp/mount so you can lay the case on its side or otherwise tilt it about, whilst holding the res in a position where it can't run dry, or suck back in, via the flexibility of soft tubing. No chance of doing that with hard tubing. If you are using a distro however then this is not at all relevant no matter which tubing is used.
Also, for me, a hard-line setup has to look absolutely **** on perfect with efficient minimal runs, dead on bends etc, or it is not going to look decent. That's just me.
Also, for me, a hard-line setup has to look absolutely **** on perfect with efficient minimal runs, dead on bends etc, or it is not going to look decent. That's just me.