Soldato
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Hi all,
Hoping to set up a loop in my (hopefully) soon to be incoming Corsair 540.
The motherboard will be the Gigabyte Z87X-OC (until I give in and get the Asus Maximus VI Formula).
I've got black Corsair Vengeance LP ram and will be using a HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST, which I will leave air cooled.
Now I'll admit that I'm not overly fussed about the look of the inside of my PC as I don't spend much time looking at it. However, if I'm buying new I may as well try to make it match.
So as per the title, what colour tubing should I use?
It'll be much easier if I can use ID 3/8", OD 1/2" tubing as I have a bunch of fittings already for that size.
My first idea was to buy clear tubing (so I can see the water and check for bubbles easily). I could then use an orange dye or orange pre-mix. But OcUK don't have any clear tubing at that size (or any size really) and not giving an ETA for when it will be back.
Due to all the stories of tubing clouding I've sort of decided to go for PrimoChill tubing, but would consider XSPC.
So I'm not really sure what to do. OcUK have black tubing, would that work or would the system be too black then? I'm also not sure how transparent the tubing is to be able to check for bubbles, etc.
Or I could get another colour such as red or blue. True there aren't really any other red or blue colours in the system, but does that matter? Does tubing/coolant have to match existing colours?
Thanks.
P.S. If it helps any I also have the memory in blue, so could use that instead of or as well as the black.
Hoping to set up a loop in my (hopefully) soon to be incoming Corsair 540.
The motherboard will be the Gigabyte Z87X-OC (until I give in and get the Asus Maximus VI Formula).
I've got black Corsair Vengeance LP ram and will be using a HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST, which I will leave air cooled.
Now I'll admit that I'm not overly fussed about the look of the inside of my PC as I don't spend much time looking at it. However, if I'm buying new I may as well try to make it match.
So as per the title, what colour tubing should I use?
It'll be much easier if I can use ID 3/8", OD 1/2" tubing as I have a bunch of fittings already for that size.
My first idea was to buy clear tubing (so I can see the water and check for bubbles easily). I could then use an orange dye or orange pre-mix. But OcUK don't have any clear tubing at that size (or any size really) and not giving an ETA for when it will be back.
Due to all the stories of tubing clouding I've sort of decided to go for PrimoChill tubing, but would consider XSPC.
So I'm not really sure what to do. OcUK have black tubing, would that work or would the system be too black then? I'm also not sure how transparent the tubing is to be able to check for bubbles, etc.
Or I could get another colour such as red or blue. True there aren't really any other red or blue colours in the system, but does that matter? Does tubing/coolant have to match existing colours?
Thanks.
P.S. If it helps any I also have the memory in blue, so could use that instead of or as well as the black.
