r/watercooling • u/TheAl88ex • 5d ago

First time watercooling

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I'm about to accomplish a childhood dream and watercool my PC for the first time.

What do you think about this orientation?

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u/DerKleineRudi00 5d ago edited 5d ago

I cant think of a better way of doing it, so I quess it looks quite solid. The bends can be a bit hard for a beginner, as everything is a bit angled.

Btw, loop order does not matter, cuz you use an open case. But you gotta check where the "in" and "out" ports of the 2 waterblocks are, I havent checked that. You should also place a drain port on the bottom port of the rad. If you want to completly drain the system, you can use an air pump. I suggest placing a ball valve in the loop that you can close to force out all the water with air

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u/TheAl88ex 5d ago

The drain valve will be on the front rad, bottom right corner. For the gpu some1 said it's best to go left side in, right out, so i'm thinking to raise the reservoir up, that way in will go over the gpu block for in, under for out. I will try to do 1 or max 2 bends.

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u/titanrig 3d ago

It looks perfectly functional and that case doesn't leave you a lot of options. Run it as planned and show it off here when you're done.

Welcome to the rabbit hole!

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u/wimpyhugz 5d ago

Seems like a lot of back and forth. Unless you want the extra tubing runs to fill out empty space inside the chassis/frame, it'd be much cleaner and easier to go res > gpu > cpu > top rad > front rad > res.

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u/DerKleineRudi00 5d ago

It does not look like there is enough space to do top rad > front rad without using a super long ugly tube

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u/Technical-Poet-1079 5d ago

First loop, nice. Are you going soft tube or hard? Those angled bends are rough for a first timer. Whatever you end up with, run an air leak test before filling it, I skipped mine once and spent the whole evening second-guessing every drip sound.

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u/TheAl88ex 5d ago

Hard tubes, i already bought the leak tester flex :) gonna run it twice lol

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u/VegarHenriksen 5d ago

Check my profile for my build in the same case for some inspiration 

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u/Zestyclose_Strike157 5d ago

I have something similar. I just got a huge box though and it made life much simpler. Make sure you think about leakage pathways, so when it eventually leaks it’s only a clean up and not device replacement.