My MCP350 pump just died on me this morning.     Turned on my PC n went to make a cup of coffee. About 5 minutes later I came back to the PC with my cup of coffee n the PC hanged. Cudn't move the cursor. Then I looked at my Guru Clock n the temp was 80C! Immediately did a hard shutdown by pulling the plug. Thank god I only left the PC for bout 5 minutes. There's more bad news. The temp on the CPU water block was so hot that the tube deformed just enuf to start a leaky drip. After I pulled the plug. I opened the side panel to see what happened. There was coolant on my AGP slot, GC, PCI slots n even the bottom of the case had a pool of water. $HITE!  Bloody hell man. I bought a branded kit so that I dont hafta kena nightmare like that n it still happens n only after having the kit for 2 months. What can I do dudes? Can I ask Cudo to exchange a different model pump for the warranty claim ah? No more confidence in the bloody MCP350. Supposed to b an industrial grade pump with 50000hour lifespan sumore.       
  
I just spent the whole day stripping down the PC. Then used the hairdryer to dry all the components thoroughly for a few hours. Then reinstalled everything back with my TT Silent Tower n the stock 6800GT cooler. Crossed my fingers, prayed, booted up n luckily everything works just fine. Thank god my whole PC miraculously survived this horrible event. If it had happened while I was sleeping then the whole PC wud have died man.     

Phuiyoooh. Very nice work of art. But it's a very scary thought with all those joints thereby increasing the chances of leakage. I'm sooooo paranoid of leaks now I'm even thinking of going back to air cooling for good.     

if you scared of leaks..

invest in a high end air cooled heatsink

it will priced as much as lower end water cooling set

Lookie what I found here. Can you guess what's that installed?

but what is the reliability of these custom watercooling kits? the last thing anyone would want to do is to splash their coolant onto their several grand system. What can we do if it really happened? can we rma the mainboard? or what if the pump fails while we're busy pumping lead onto the half-life 2 alien?
I've even read about the Tt Rocket's puny design, where the pump leaked after the water is heated slightly, resulting in terrible consequences. If this could happen to those pre-made kits, what are the chances it won't happen to a custom kit?
anyone ever actually suffered a leaking system? what can be done to prevent this from happening? (forget about non conductive fluid, it's too expensive to speak of)

RM500 for a starters' system is, IMHO, quite expensive. Forgive me, i know of people who would spend 3k for a cyrogenic cooler, but i'm not one of them. I know I'm cheap. The cheaper alternative is premade kits, but upgrading is not an option. But, what if all we need is a simple kit, which performs like the first day we installed it, year in year out?

Is there such a kit? Or is there a custom kit designed to require little or no attention?

Senang cerita, wait for online reviews or from someone who's using it since right now, not much info on it, no pics of the blocks design and the pumps a Hydor L20

What other parts are still missing to complete the loop?

dang!!!!... double DANG!!!   , how come he get it first?       neway congrats on those beauty!!!.

Here're some rads pic that might help you out a bit.

The Black Ice Xtreme

The Black Ice Pro (Slightly thinner than the BIX at around 25mm)

the Thermochill HE120.1

The brand new Thermochill PA160 (Single Pass Double Row XcrossFlow!!!)
and .. the somehow i'm a bit confused about its origin.

The New Swiftech's MCR120-QP... and at first I thought it would be a thermochill's then again doesn't look like one.  Anyone know ah?

Hehe nice piece of copper you got there sniper

Yes in fact I do

There isn't enough clearance to fit the ram sinks but a little modding will take care of it

It will be tricky though to fit the ram sinks then fiddle around with the tubing and hose clamps. Safest is to not put any sinks there(they don't get hot enough to make it necessary anyway) as the tubing may rest on it and over time, slowly crush the ram itself.

congrats on the storm...seriously jeles aku tengok..yeah can anyone verify the origins of the swiftys new rads because if i cant get a bix i`ll just get the swifty rad from bulk. the low-profile maze4 is 25.2mm thick and the low-profile is 30.8mm thick.hope that helps

what rad you planning to get then?

i heard that KP using their own custom fitting thread is it?

IMO a thermochill rad, specifically the PA series, and pair up with some silent fan, say the low speed panaflow, or something like that. Your system would be much more silent yet perfomable.

uncle snipe got your rad ledi?

wa sulah cakap....mau pakai BIX kena airflow tinggi...you want to use that sucky CM fan sila laa....jangan nanti my BIP with a Delta 120 x 25 mm fan shows lower temps then yours then you're gonna regret a whole lot

Actually I don't think its totally about the airflow issue, I think its more of a pressure issue.
If sniper can get a blower that has a pressure of as much as a 38mm fan and 2/3 of the air flow...I think sniper will see a very good result, and still the blower will be silent. Asking a blower of the same size to do a pressure of a 38mm axial fan is piece a cake...
The other point is, a 80cfm fan when couple with a BIX will not have 80cfm.... probably a 60cfm.......
In this case, I think a push and pull will be quite good as a option to BIX
but how powerfull of a fan for push and full would be much of a debate.
maybe 2 38mm CM alucase fan would do the trick?

Just trying to express what I think, don't snipe me....