major water loop overhaul

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it time for me to up date my water loop so looking some advice on what to go for.

some history.

the tubing, rads, and pump are about 5 years old and have been running 25/7 with no faults

i swapped the MB/CPU about 2 years ago to a ga-z87x-oc force/ i7 4770k /EK-Supremacy - Full Copper, and changed the liquid (used the last of my fluidXP+ hp)

last year i updated the graphics card 980 which i just added a ek waterblock too.


i need to change the fluid and from reading here and other sites i would like to use Mayhems Pastel (unless you wish to tell me other wise). This will mean swaping my tubing which is 19/13 and was bought from here but i can't remember the brand so was going to swap to Primochill rather than risk gumming up the works.
now do i stay with 19/13 or do i swap too one of the smaller sizes (i had though of going down to 16/10 so that i could use the waterblocks on my MB but from reading i'm better of keeping them on air)


The rads are two swiftech 360 (can't remember the model numbers but they at leased 6 years old) i know it more cooling than i need but i want the system as quite as possible so with such a large area i was able to keep the fan speed low, has rad tech moved on much in 6 years, ie would swaping to newer rads give me a major boost to cooling/ noise lvl



The pump is a a 6 year old laing 18w ddc with a build on reservoir top, it has run for 24/7 for nearly all those 6 year so i think it time to swap it out
was looking at either a

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-273-XS&groupid=962&catid=2133&subcat=1845

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-415-EK&groupid=962&catid=2141&subcat=2142

or can you suggest better
 
The rads will be fine and so would the pump. My pumps are coming on for 10 years old and still going strong.

Stick with the Primochill tubing. It seems expensive but it's plasticer free from what people say about it on here. I am just about to take my loop apart yet again due to the crappy XSPC tubing leaching plasticiser, turning my water and tubing cloudy, and going by temps, clogging my blocks. The same thing happened to me in November but I stuck with the tubing as I had been using it for years with no issues. They must have changed something for it to happen all of a sudden like that.
 
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