Using copper pipe?

[murah]

Hi all love the look of watercooling and currently doing a project to watercool my pc using normal XSPC tubing but I absolutely love chromed copper pipes and have seen a few builds using them, how hard is it to work with compared to normal tubing? will it fit happily in the fittings or will I need to use some sort of glue to hold it in them?

I was planning on doing mostly copper pipe with some clear bits of tube to show the fluid

if anyone has any experience I'd love to hear your thoughts or advice on what to think about before I undertake it

 

[jacob1995knight]

1. dont use copper, use acrylic that is colored
2. its a lot less forgiving then normal tubing due to bends and accuracy
3. there are fittings designed for acrylic tubing, cost more but it works

I would only recommend going over to solid tube if your confident

 

[colinmcr]

Its going to be harder than using tubing mainly down to the fact that you have to measure out your bends etc with hard pipe (If you bend rather than use elbows).
Using acrylic hardline would mean bends have to be done by heating the pipe. The benefit of copper pipe, is that you don't have to heat it to bend it.
I've never bent chromed copper but some rigs I've seen that do use it they don't have any bends as such, they use elbow fittings to create the change of direction.
This means your outlay will be increased by having to use considerably more fittings.

Hope that helps in some way

PS: Keenan's Project Marshlands is a stunning example of a copper build

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18527108

 

[murah]

looking up it seems the best way is to get normal copper pipe , do your bends, polish then send it to be nickel plated the copper builds look absolutely beautiful!