looking at getting this EK kit

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-173-EK&groupid=962&catid=1532&subcat=

First time watercooling. Read all the faq's and stuff and this is the kit that seems best for my needs. It has the biggest radiator, and i've got a massive case that will take it easily.

Only cooling the CPU at the moment, but will add GPU when I upgrade later on. I want the kit to be "future proof". It says it's LGA2011 compatible, so everything is okay there..... but I'm not sure which VGA waterblocks this kit is compatible with, in that you're not supposed to mix different types of metals. Most of the vga blocks seem to be nickel... are they compatible with this kit?

What liquid is best? I'm not bothered about fancy colours as I dont have a window on the case. If I use distilled water from a garage, do I need to get a kill coil or something?

Any other tips for a watercooling beginner getting this kit would be much appreciated.

 

[paradigm]

You shouldn't mix metals if you are running a pure distilled water loop, but if you are using the provided blue dye/inhibitor flud combo (EK claims this is fine for multi-metal loops) then you shouldn't have a problem. You can happily use the supplied fluid with a litre of halford's distilled water, it's blue, but it does the job.

I'm running the above kit (although I bought a bay res to go with it, as I hate tub reservoirs), and the only thing you really should change is the tubing. The supplied tubing is hard, and kinks easily (infact, mine was pre-kinked for my inconvenience in the box). the barbs will also accomodate larger ID tubing.

A kill coil or liquid biocide is always a good idea

 

[Alz_D]

I have the above kit as well. And I also changed out the tube res for a bay. Only advice that I would give is to take your time. I had never done this before but the kit instructions are really straight forward and there are loads of people on here on hand to help if you get stuck. I am using EK blood red pre mixed coolant but if yours is hidden away then I guess colour doesn't matter so much.