Oooh, the cute teeny 970 with block. I want it please and thank you
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Chop chop! Pictures gpu waterblock? How come you chose 12mm tubing?
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Still on pre-order....
I checked a while back and they said 3-4 weeks, but that was at least a couple of weeks ago. Direct reckons 7-9 days now, so I guess we're looking at May?? I'm getting really fed up of waiting! LOL
I've always used 12mm tubing to be honest, so all my fittings have always used 12mm. There's no functional difference between tubing sizes it's mostly just ascetics and bend radius.
,for the lengths of tubing we're talking about,
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Your G1/4 fitting will have a through bore of no more than about 10mm so those are going to be your restriction for any tubing over 10mm ID. Larger bore tubing would have a lower 'resistance' but over the lengths we're talking about, I suspect it's negligible. Personally I try to stay at 10mm ID as a minimum so I don't further restrict it more than necessary. But you've already got the 'right' idea and gone hard tubing....can't go making life easier than necessary for yourself!
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The only real video comparison I could find on it is a LTT video from 6 years ago.,for the lengths of tubing we're talking about,
Fixed that for you
But 10mm ID was 25.8c idle with 50% pump speed, and 61c at load with 50% pump speed.
13mm ID was 25.9c idle and 61.4c under load
Basically it's close enough that any difference is probably measuring inconsistencies.