New to Watercooling, few Q's

I don't know if I'm honest. I think it's because it was the first one I saw and have seen in so many builds. What makes the DCC better over the D5? I'm also wondering what's the best one to get between the Pro and Ultra for my set-up? Plus there's quite a few different tops available. Is there any real difference besides the looks between them?
And what Swiftech rads? I've not chose any, planning on getting 1x360 and 2x120 XSPC ones, still not sure on what depth 120's to get though, need to do some measuring in the case.
Just to add, would there be any performance difference between a EK Multioption RES 250 and a 150? Just the extra 50mm space could be handy, and I'm not sure if the ammount of fluid in the system would effect performance at all seen as it's nto really being cooled in the res.
 
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Ghosteh said:
Unfortunately, after looking at my credit card statement, and my payday, and after a bit of calculation, I won't be getting this in about 3 months as planned :(.
Totally going to end up getting it at the end of this month, or very beginning of February, my calculations came out better than expected haha, can't wait :D.
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I'm so crap at even keeping to my own plans!

I've just heard a weep from my debit card as I placed the transaction for all the parts :D. Hopefully will be here soon enough, just waiting for the CPU Block to actually be released by EK, then all the parts should be dispatched in one go :D, can't wait.

Many thanks to all you guys for your help, has been fantastic. I'll post a build log most likely, that is if I don't get too excited and throw it all together with out taking pictures lol. Again, cheers fellas :D.
 
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No worries about the late reply mate, you've been more than helpful in helping me choose what parts to go for :).

In the end I went for the DDC-1T Ultra, which is the 18W one, with the XSPC Top(Not the reservoir one) as I actually thought about the smaller dimensions helping me sort out my 120 60mm rad I'm going to have at the base of the case, just gives me that bit extra room to play with :).

Went for the EK Multioption 150 in the end too, as said before, to just give me that bit of extra room to play with. And I will most certainly be doing plenty of leak testing prior to putting it in my system, and yet further testing once it's in hah. I take it it's a simple case of jump-starting the PSU to keep the pump going to actually do the leak test?
 
Is this an OK option for the EK res to be set up?
Most of my parts have arrived, except my blocks, so I'm just getting an idea of how it all will fit in my case :).

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After a bit of fiddling(and guessing seen as I have no blocks yet :P) I think I'll just be attaching to the two front connectors. I know it's not ideal, should really do top and bottom, but I don't think I'll have the space due to my bottom rad being a 60mm deep one, not leaving loads of room to play with lol. Cheers for the advice though guys :). Hopefully I'll have a build log going soon, well, within two weeks, damn blocks being out of stock everywhere I've looked lol.

I'll also have a look into horizonal mounting once I've got all the stuff in there, see how I can work it :).
 
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