Picture design of intended water loop

[[TFU] Thegoon84]

Sorry for the rubbish design, i'm in work and on lunch using paint . Below is the water loop i'm going to create, as this is my first loop i am only going to cool the cpu, i will eventually move on to GFX aswel.

System:

Rampage 2 extreme
i7 Do
5850
6GB DDR3 GT doms 1866Mhz (with cooling fan)

Case (just so you can suggest colour tubes etc):

TJ07
powder coated white (yes i've changed my mind again)
Purple neon's
white fan's

Water cooling kit:

Thermochill pa120.2
laing ddc 10w pump

Could you guys suggested a water cooling block, not keen on the D-tek (email in trust).

I'm prob gona get res:
EK Multioption RES 100 Rev2... aint bought it yet tho.

Here is my idea of setting up the flow, have i missed anything. Will the pump be strong enough to pump water fast enough thro the rad and in to the CPU as i figured its at its coolest temp coming out of the rad????.... or shall i put the rad ----> pump straight -----> in to the CPU?

I am also designing a middle casing plate to tidy the pipes up, what compression fittings can i use so instead of feeding tubes thro each whole they can fit straight into fittings on either side of the plate (if you get me)

What fittings could i use for the following:

Going to use distilled water with Silver Coil placed in top pump (Anti Algae)

 

[JonJ678]

The words you're after are grommet and bulkhead fitting. The first is a rubber ring which sits around the edge of a hole and stops the sheet metal cutting through your tubing. The latter is varied, from a simple brass cylinder with a thread cut down the centre to a cylinder with barbs/compressions built into both sides.

It doesn't matter what order you put the loop in, the water is the same temperature everywhere. Close enough for engineering purposes anyway.

The 10W ddc is ideal. The 18W ddc is ridiculously overpowered for a simple loop. Consider the xspc reservoir top instead of the separate ek multioption reservoir as it performs better.

 

[[TFU] Thegoon84]

The words you're after are grommet and bulkhead fitting. The first is a rubber ring which sits around the edge of a hole and stops the sheet metal cutting through your tubing. The latter is varied, from a simple brass cylinder with a thread cut down the centre to a cylinder with barbs/compressions built into both sides.

It doesn't matter what order you put the loop in, the water is the same temperature everywhere. Close enough for engineering purposes anyway.

The 10W ddc is ideal. The 18W ddc is ridiculously overpowered for a simple loop. Consider the xspc reservoir top instead of the separate ek multioption reservoir as it performs better.

Yup cheers all sorted i've found bulk heads i can use to separate the pipes from the cut metal.

The xspc res is that the one which sits in driver bay? How could i incorporate a fill port and an out port in to a driver xspc bay T pipe junctions and shut off valves?

 

[shadowscotland]

No it's a pump top - here mine, sitting on top of a DDC pro.
A simple 't' section will solve the fill and drain lines - or you could get an adaptor for the fill hole on the res top.

 

[Bubo]

1. Don't need to use a fill port like that unless you absolutely want to. Easier and tidier to use a temporary barb in the top of the res when filling. Once full, with an air gap in the top of the res, take the temporary barb out and put one of the plugs back in. If you need to top up, put the barb back in etc. If you do want a fill port in the top of the case make sure you put it such that it won't interfere with a rad if you eventually decide to put one in the top, i.e. don't put it where you have drawn it.

2. I'm not sure what you mean by a mid case plate. Are you talking about an extra plate you are going to put in, or the existing horizontal plate separating the psu from the mobo? If you are talking about the existing plate I personally can't see the point of any sort of fittings to separate the halves as such. Just go through the holes as god intended.

If on the other hand you are talking about another plate then you'll have to be more specific, but to be honest it all sounds like art for arts sake so to speak, it will serve no practical function that I can think of if everything is in the same case. You're never going to want to disconnect the things when the system is full, is you would perhaps need to do if using an external rad box.

If you still want it that way then you can get bulkhead fittings to do what you want, they sometimes come fitted into pci plates for external pipe routing. I think you screw whatever G1/4 fitting you like into them. Its that or quick release couplings. You could get the same effect by using a correctly sized cable gland if you want something that looks like a fitting, just thread the tube through it but don't tighten it up so much, if at all. I sort of have this on my case where tubes go out/in to my external rads, it keeps the tubes perpendicular to the case to a degree.