Radeon vii first time watercooling! Advice please

[Phlash]

Looking to water cool my new Radeon vii when it comes but have no experience with water cooling other than buying pre filled kits.

Current setup:
Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX cube case
Corsair H115i cpu cooler pumping out the roof!
Radeon fury x pumping out the rear
2 280mm fans pumping in the front

I have room for a 280mm radiator in the front and going to keep the H115i.

Going to go with:
EK GPU block (Black)
EK-CoolStream CE 280 or 360
EK-XRES 140 Revo D5 RGB PWM Res/pump - is this enough if I choose to cool the CPU?
Fans TBD

What is a good solution for fuss/leak free connection pipe for an absolute beginner!?

Air flow would be:

280 fan blowing in from the rear
Corsair H115i blowing out the roof
EK cooler blowing in or out?

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Phlash]

For a beginner the easiest option is soft tubing with barbs and clamps. It's cheap to do, easy to do, but looks "ugly" according to some. You could fit a block to the GPU and do the whole thing in a few hours.

If you don't like the idea of barbs and clamps, go with soft tubing and compression fittings. I would argue that you need to leak-test compression fittings for much longer than with barbs and clamps.

Avoid hardline unless you're a masochist who likes their machine to be in pieces for a long time while you learn.

"Avoid being a masocist" ... duly noted... Thanks for the advice!

I think I will skip the barb fitting too and go for compression.

 

[Phlash]

Draw a plan of the layout so that you can work out which and how many connectors you need.

Definitely fit a drain valve, you'll wish you had if you don't.

Use premixed coolant, buy enough to do 2 fills.

Have a water temperature sensor in the loop somewhere, you only need one.

Leak test.

Excellent advice! Thanks!

I could use a quick release fitting at the "low" point to act as a drain?

Daunting this is!