Thinking to attempt my first water-cooling build in a Fractal R7

[lawrence281]

Hey guys. So i've been quite bored lately and figured i'd finally attempt to do a water cooling Rig, always been a bit scared, in case anything went wrong. Been reading up online and in the end I thought maybe to get a water-cooling kit, or a DIY bundle on OCUK. Is there anything I should know when attempting it?

Doing it custom seems like too much for a first time, so figured a all in one kit may help ease my confidence

It'll be a completely new Ryzen build from scratch. Should I consider getting a backplate GPU to cool as well?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ek-w...watercooling-kit-3830046996244-wc-9m5-ek.html

Would something like this be enough to give it a crack? What else would I need?

(Don't have the case yet, but once I find out everything needed, will order in and post photos of progress)

Appreciate any info

Thanks

-Law

 

[Jamin280672]

Hey guys. So i've been quite bored lately and figured i'd finally attempt to do a water cooling Rig, always been a bit scared, in case anything went wrong. Been reading up online and in the end I thought maybe to get a water-cooling kit, or a DIY bundle on OCUK. Is there anything I should know when attempting it?

Doing it custom seems like too much for a first time, so figured a all in one kit may help ease my confidence

It'll be a completely new Ryzen build from scratch. Should I consider getting a backplate GPU to cool as well?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ek-w...watercooling-kit-3830046996244-wc-9m5-ek.html

Would something like this be enough to give it a crack? What else would I need?

(Don't have the case yet, but once I find out everything needed, will order in and post photos of progress)

Appreciate any info

Thanks

-Law

Thats still a custom cooling kit, it just comes as a kit rather than you figuring out and buying all the individual parts yourself, but yes its a good place to start, I wouldnt worry about the GPU yet, you can always add to it later, the backplate alone wont benefit you in anyway without the waterblock to go on the front, then you are going to want additional radiators too and fittings too, you will also need a bottle of distilled water to go with it as the coolant you get in that kit is a concentrate that needs diluting.

Try and keep your tube runs as short and tidy as possible, plan it out, soft tubing is dead easy to work with, make sure you dont have any kinks in the tubes, those compression fittings are also dead easy to work with, they come in 2 parts, so you have the outer ring and the inner part, remove the outer ring and screw the inner part to the pump / radiator or the water block etc, I always just nip mine up a tiny bit with a pair of plumbers grips, add the tube to it, then tighten on the outer ring / compression fitting, job done.

Just make sure you leak test for a few hours before switching your system on completely, you can do this by plugging the pump alone into the PSU molex or SATA connection, and using the PSU paperclip test to get the pump to run, try not to let the pump run dry while filling it, you will, have to keep switching on and off whilst filling as the res will drain pretty quickly.

This is mine, ive considered going hard tubing, but to be honest, I really cant be bothered, and im changing parts that often, soft tubing is so much easier to work with, my fittings are the same as the ones you will get in that kit, only black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G81Mpb8KTEE

 

[lawrence281]

Thats still a custom cooling kit, it just comes as a kit rather than you figuring out and buying all the individual parts yourself, but yes its a good place to start, I wouldnt worry about the GPU yet, you can always add to it later, the backplate alone wont benefit you in anyway without the waterblock to go on the front, then you are going to want additional radiators too and fittings too, you will also need a bottle of distilled water to go with it as the coolant you get in that kit is a concentrate that needs diluting.

Try and keep your tube runs as short and tidy as possible, plan it out, soft tubing is dead easy to work with, make sure you dont have any kinks in the tubes, those compression fittings are also dead easy to work with, they come in 2 parts, so you have the outer ring and the inner part, remove the outer ring and screw the inner part to the pump / radiator or the water block etc, I always just nip mine up a tiny bit with a pair of plumbers grips, add the tube to it, then tighten on the outer ring / compression fitting, job done.

Just make sure you leak test for a few hours before switching your system on completely, you can do this by plugging the pump alone into the PSU molex or SATA connection, and using the PSU paperclip test to get the pump to run, try not to let the pump run dry while filling it, you will, have to keep switching on and off whilst filling as the res will drain pretty quickly.

This is mine, ive considered going hard tubing, but to be honest, I really cant be bothered, and im changing parts that often, soft tubing is so much easier to work with, my fittings are the same as the ones you will get in that kit, only black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G81Mpb8KTEE

Cheers for the reply, awesome! I’ll post and update this thread as soon as I get new parts/case etc and start it ;D