Varies from manufacturer. XSPC tends to use UNC type screws. Other brands, EK, Aquacomputer, Watercool, Alphacool mostly stick with M type screws. Pretty much depends on the country the company is from and what standards they use.


You can even use pliers to cut the screws. Totally depends on how hard the cutting edge is and how much force your tool can exert. Anything works. You could probably use a metal sheet cutter to cut the screws. It's just whether you want to or not.

If that's the case, ask them what block they're using. Find out online what screw type, then match.

mod n go.

I say go with the red and if you have a rear fan, use that as exhaust. I don't think my case has an exhaust fan.

Edit: RED, not Blue. saw wrong.

This post has been edited by pristine: Jul 27 2013, 06:00 PM

Edited my post. lol. Saw wrongly. Go with the red arrows, with both radiators taking in air from outside the case. And yeah, try to fit a fan at the rear of the case.

Rely on positive air pressure.

Do you wanna clean it separately outside your loop or while it's still in your loop?

If outside, you can one shot dismantle it, take it apart and cover the whole copper section with tomato sauce or use brass/copper/metal cleaners.

As for your o-ring, as long as it's still compressible and not hard/stiff, it should be alright. Just make sure it's not TOO soft. And keep it away from petroleum byproducts else your o-ring will become funny.

You sure it's spoilt and not one of those types that only spin up when the psu is hot?

Well, tomato sauce soak and scrub is suppose to work. Lol. If still in loop usually people just flush with distilled, boiled distilled or vinegar.

If you don't wanna change tubing, clean it out. Chances are that's algae coz duralene supposedly doesn't plasticise and plasticiser doesn't look like that. Haha.

Although you put silver in your loop, if your rig catches sunlight algae will grow. Silver isn't a completely sure fire way to keep algae away. Sometimes, one strip of silver isn't enough so put 2 or add on biocide. Biocide works better than silver although annoying thing is you have to top up the biocide every now and then.

Like I said, if you don't wanna change the tube, scrub it out. Then rinse all of it with boiled water/boiled distilled. Rinse, don't soak. lol.

Use tube brush.

Yep. Tube brush:

Algae is water issue. Plasticiser is tube issue.

Even if you change over to acrylic, you'll still have algae issue if you don't treat your water properly.

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Dude, just buy whatever it is that fits your budget and appeals to you. If cannot fit, make it fit.

Not all radiators are made with the same dimensions. The only thing same between radiators are the fan size. Fan spacing now for radiators have been made to be a standard 15mm but not all case manufacturers are following that standard.

If you want easy, get an NZXT Phantom 630. Expensive, but can fit a LOT of watercooling hardware.

I am chill.

I just said what I said coz one thing about water cooling is that not all the water cooling stuff will fit out of the box with a lot of cases. Only some are easy. Any of the ppl active here can agree on this.

If the radiator can fit on the top, sometimes it'll affect the 8-pin EPS. If radiator at the bottom, sometimes will affect the PSU.

And if say you want to mount a certain radiator in a certain case but the compatibility has only been tested with a different radiator brand/model, you might have some issues there as well.

Get a good case. It's easier to get a good case and figure out the water cooling parts later than trying to figure out what case will match your water cooling parts. After all, you'll see the case most of the time. So get one that appeals to you and fits your budget and if you don't want to mod, find one that's water cooling friendly (no need to offset mount the radiator or drill extra holes)

Nampak macam Ribena je.

This should interest you guys too.





Has already started hitting shelves in the US. Available immediately on PPC. Comes in 170 and 270mm variants.

Finally a glass reservoir on the market that's cheap!

Here's a write up review on the new xspc photon reservoir.

Review

Anyone have short male female extenders they wanna sell?

Preferably bitspower silver/matte black. I think they're the C40 fittings.

HoNeYdEwBoY, APES got? the really short one.
infernoaswen, you got any you wanna sell off?

Haha. oh well.

Really? 4mm? You sure?

Got link? I can't find. haha

LOL. nah, acrylic got two types. 47 and 48.

Oh well, gotta get from PPC la then. Still thinking whether to get just extenders or 45 degree adapters.