Mock-ups?

[DHR]

I've had an itch to do a water cooled build for years, simply because I've never done it. I've never had an AIO either so it's totally new to me.

Is there any way of planning and mocking up a watercooled build visually?

I'm still scratching the surface, considering flex vs hard pipe work etc. but from a layout and aesthetics perspective, it'd be nice to be able to mock something up. Can't lie people saying its too expensive these days are putting me off a little! I presume pre-owned blocks etc are a bad idea too.

I don't game on a PC much anymore but when I do it's nice having something there that'll do what I want, although great, my 6600k is starting to suffer from a bit of old age now and lack of Win11 support is starting to grate a little. My plan was to go down the pre-owed route but buy some new water cooling gear so if I trash components, I trash them - lesson learnt I've got it out of my system!

 

[DHR]

Thanks @SirConfused yeah I was going to replace the board and CPU as part of this.

I may go down the route of an AIO given some of the threads on here of late, does take some of the fun and risk out of it all though!

Just always had that dream of a purple/green/UV setup

Edit - Already have a case ready to go, just nothing else.

 

[DHR]

I hear you on fittings.

Even at the age I am now, bucket list learnings desired... committing how to understand pipe, plumbing, tube dimensions from memory.

Drives me mental!!!