Rebuilding into an 800D

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Managed to pick up a Corsair 800D from the MM (thanks Bailey). Time to ditch my 500R and get some real room!

While moving everything over I intend to change out the tubing and cable extensions, get everything looking a little better :D

Thinking of going for blue, should then match my chipset heatsinks (asus p8z68), ram and raystorm LED's. My question is what tubing do you guys think would suit the best? been looking at the Masterkleer UV Reactive Blue but can't make out if it would appear more of a purple?

Also I plan to bolt my 1080 rad to the side panel of the case while still using a large external res, due to the location of the WC grommets on the rear I was debating putting the GPU's into parallel, as the in and out could the run from the top card, would this make any drastic effect on temps (currently around 21c idle 36c load)?

Really looking forward to using the case, though I'm not going to rush into it this time :)
 
21c idle cant be much above ambient temp? If so they are very good temps indeed and you wouldn't see further drops unless you went for a water chiller.
 
Currently sit around 2c above ambient, though after a few hours of heavy gaming the idles rise to around 24-27c. Would the temps on the cards increase moving them from parallel from serial?

Parallel is looking like making things allot easier and neater :)

I'm absolutely mesmerised by the 800D, makes my 500R look like cheap trash.
 
Hehe, the 800D is an amazing case for W/C I've made room for a bottom 240 and a top 480rad ;)

I've tried to match the theme of Asus blue boards, but no tubing really matches unfortunately. If you're willing, the closest thing would probably be clear tubing with a coolant/dye variant. Moving from parallel to serial won't increase your temperatures substantially, your temps might not even increase at all, I'd probably guess up to 2 degrees max.
 
Thats comforting to know :)

I thought that might be the case (with the tubing). Might just stick with the white tubing I already have for now and change it up when I go Z77 probably with a UD7. Which ever way for the time being I will be sticking with coloured tubing and DI, for cost over anything, currently use just over 3L of coolant in my system, thats £45 on mayhems I would have to spend every time I drain and change something.

Its absolute torture having this case in front of me and know at least for now I can't build in it as I'm still decision making :D
 
Scrap that, clear tubing here I come, going to use EK's EKoolant (apparently I shouldn't have any issues with EK blocks using their own brand coolant. Have a nice UV Blue and its a mere £6 a litre.

Now for clouding of tubing...do we have a nailed on brand that won't cloud?
 
There is a thread on here somewhere about the EK coolants, not sure how good they are. I would highly recommend the Mayhems series of coolants, either pastel or X1 series.
 
I would go mayhems but two things at the moment are stopping me:

1. Do they mess up EK blocks? I'm waiting for a response from EK on the matter.

2. Price, if Ekoolant has say only a 2c difference from Mayhems but a third of the price I will have to go EK as I'm going to need 3+ litres every fill.

Don't get me wrong, would absolutely LOVE to use something like the Aurora but until I can give my self pro's and con's of the above its going to have to wait.

nice setup btw Jinxpad
 
The ek coolant i got (red) was **** nice and dark red to start with, then within about 3 weeks everything was coated in a red gunk and the liquid had gone to a horrid pinky color.
 
cobbly123 said:
The ek coolant i got (red) was **** nice and dark red to start with, then within about 3 weeks everything was coated in a red gunk and the liquid had gone to a horrid pinky color.
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aaaand now I'm full of doubt again :)

Which is a good thing, as I'd take the word of user reviews over the manufactures word all day long.

I have until Wednesday evening to decide, so plenty of input would be welcome, I have worded my support ticket with EK very well to try get as much info as possible, as I know ultimately they will say to use EKoolant.
 
Haha, as for non-clouding tubing, Tygon always delivers excellent tubing, and I think it was Masterkleer who had pretty good value transparent tubing. As for what coolants would be okay I can't really answer that :p
 
Thanks, I was looking at the tygon, that's going to be a hefty dent in the bank balance, near £9 per meter :eek:

Is there a 'quick test' way to find out how tubing will cloud? As I could try some industrial suppliers at work for samples, would probably come in at 50p-£1.50 a meter
 
The XSPC Tubing in the store didn't cloud on my rig, and it's pretty cheap too.

as for blue, just use distilled water with some Mayhems Deep blue dye, it's fantastic, only took 3-5 drops to turn my old full loop a very deep blue, obviously you can tweak the color depending on your personal preferences. :)
 
+1 for Mayhems, have used x1 and am using Aurora now. The x1didnt mark/stain anything i am using masterkleer hose at moment that seems to be staying clear
 
I have a short list of coolants branded 'safe' by EK, some are relatively cheap at £8 a litre.

Going to use some XSPC clear 7/16 tubing and either some X1 UV Blue or some EC6.

Currently banging my head against a wall finding suppliers for everything that I need that don't either use FedEX or will only offer me next day delivery on individual items, you'd think something better than 3-5 day delivery would be an option for a £100 order.

Going to start a new project as this is actually going to involve some modding :)
 
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