small reservoirs...

rjk · 24 Jun 2012 at 21:18

Evening guys.

Racking my brains currently trying to think of a suitable reservoir for my system.

I need the following.

good flow rate to feed a D5
small for factor to fit in my new case.
slim if possible.

Looking at the switch micro res. Only alternative I can see is getting rid of my D5 and moving to one of the new DDC pumps.

Needs to be part of a system that can power external rads too.

Jokester · 24 Jun 2012 at 21:23

Fill port.

rjk · 24 Jun 2012 at 21:39

That was my thinking in honesty mate. If push comes to shove then that will happen. I just wanted a neat way of doing it really.

Case is a FT03
Was thinking of putting a microres behind the motherboard tray.

spixelspixel · 24 Jun 2012 at 22:00

pump top/res combo?

OptimaLnrg · 24 Jun 2012 at 22:35

Yea, not sure how small but you could get a res top for the D5, EK do some I think.

shadowscotland · 24 Jun 2012 at 22:45

With the standard single inlet top (not the four port bottom I used) the koolance D5 res top is an option.
Not super small but a possable.

XSPC Tank Reservoir - Laing D5 is smaller

Bay res is also an option - or bay/pump res (if vibration noise is acceptable)

T-line

Swify MicroRes

Bp Water tank-z 40

DD fillport res

FrozenQ Flex Tank Multi-Purpose Reservoir

Tecnofront Nano Liquid Cooling Reservoir

Cleeecooo · 24 Jun 2012 at 23:56

What about that tiny swiftech res?

It shouldn't be much different to a fill port, but will have more storage capacity so should be a little easier.

Biffa · 25 Jun 2012 at 00:15

I've just fitted the D5 res top and its a beaut

Not sure what your exact size requirements are but its dimensions are: 121.5 x 72 x 90mm

pgi947 · 25 Jun 2012 at 10:06

I'd be careful going the fillport only route, its what I did and constantly have air circulating as the last of the air won't for what ever reason escape the system. Going to put a small res in my loop when I rebuild it.

Bubo · 25 Jun 2012 at 11:43

You probably had problems bleeding with a t line only because your flow was too high whilst bleeding. The easiest way to give the air bubbles chance to go up the t line is to partially clamp the hose somewhere so that flow drops right down. Otherwise bubbles will just sail past the t line, though in theory they should eventually find their way up there, through probability if nothing else.

pgi947 · 25 Jun 2012 at 19:05

I'll give clamping the t-line hose a try! I did reduce the pump speed but then I was in the situation where the pump was struggling to pull air bubbles through the top.

Jokester · 25 Jun 2012 at 20:16

Don't clamp the t-line, its your actual loop you clamp, just enough to reduce the flow down but still flowing.

pgi947 · 25 Jun 2012 at 21:14

Jokester said:
Don't clamp the t-line, its your actual loop you clamp, just enough to reduce the flow down but still flowing.

That's what I was meaning

The t-line is a metal bitspower one.

Bubo · 26 Jun 2012 at 08:22

I think you are refering to the T fitting, i.e. the metal fitting that looks.... like a T. The T line is the flexible tube coming off the I in the T. You need to clamp one of the _ in the T. Or anywhere else in the main loop, doesn't matter, just not on the T line.

Nebu · 26 Jun 2012 at 09:57

+1 Swiftech Micro res. Small and does it's job, easy to fill.