FedEx is great for me so far. I would think they're pretty good with handling so I haven't had to claim for damages yet.
Shipment tax will depend on how you clear it with customs. If you don't wanna go through it yourself, let me know shared shipping purchase from PPC still open.

That's.... Not very noob. Lol. I see you put a good amount of money into your rig. Bought the stuff from overseas?

Very nice selection btw.

Fuhhh. Major facelift eh?

AFAIK, Caselabs flat packs, so only worry about damage is that the panels come bent. But if they do come bent, revert to Caselabs before taking it up with FedEx. As for taxes, if you are buying a case from CL, just be careful of what the declaration is.

Rarely ppl talk about mountain mods already. haha.

FedEx hasn't loss any of my stuff before. Plus they have complete international tracking. So no worries.

I know what you mean.

whoa. That's a lot of things from overseas. You're using a 540 Air? Or something else?

For a person who's never done wc before, you did good.

Very nice case to water cool in.

The next time you're adding or upgrading your loop, consider simplifying the "rear" chamber, reduce the cable mess and tidy it up. Will give you lots of room for 1 or 2 more radiators. Maybe throw in a monsta.

Your flow shouldn't be affected much. Koolance pumps (I'm assuming you're using a Koolance pump since everything in your loop is Koolance) are D5s on steroids.

There's always a next time, no need to rush.

yeah, you can 1 or 2 radiators in the back chamber with some modding. Depends on how you want to do it of course.

haha. no one will see the monsta if you put in the back chamber.

The Enthoo Primo is designed with water cooling in mind really. A lot of the massive towers sold now are built with water cooling in mind. Pretty good market strategy if you ask me. haha

FedEx handles start to finish, no third parties involved. Even tax declaration is handled by FedEx, even then they will call you for clarification.

FedEx as a company is quite reputable, the staff they hire however, different story.

Yeah, primo is pretty stiff. But hey, no worry of kinking! Haha

You planning on going all out bro?

Time to change tubing size or try different brand of tubing. lol.

Haha. Sell all your 1/2 3/4 and get fat rigid acrylic.

Soon I will have locally sourced rigid acrylic (hopefully) and then well, then we can have a toxic vat.

I think the loose ones are typically softer coz the entire reel is larger and handled more often than the ones in the box which tend to come off the production line, cut, stuffed into boxes and shipped onto shelves.

Red push fittings... do they even exist? lol.

If they don't, can go the primo route. They have red rigid tube COMPRESSION FITINGS.

If long term with upgrade in mind, H220. If you want no mess, no fuss and just install and go with no plan for future add-ons, H100i.

But personally, I'd get the H220. It's a better all around package. The H220 is essentially: Swiftech Apogee HD + MCP 35X pump in a Swiftech Apogee Drive II configuration, Swiftech rad (I personally don't care for this), and two Swiftech Helix fans which are decent.

The best part of the kit is actually the Apogee Drive II.

H220 is the kit, Drive II is the pump block. Whenever you buy something separately it's always more expensive. lol. Look at most of our systems, all custom built costing XXXX. hahahaha.

Depends what you're running. If just CPU, then probably no difference at all. I just finished testing on my 240 and 360mm radiators today on just stock CPU load temps in an air cond room. negligible difference (1-2C).

Not BP bro. PrimoChill. Well, not really "compress", more of like compression styled. Should check it out on their youtube channel.

The fittings are nickel plated brass with an outer anodized aluminium "compression" ring, which does not come into contact with water flow so you'll be perfectly ok. Even if it does contact water, as long as the anodizing is not damaged, still safe.

Actually, you're kinda wrong here. Primochill rigid tubing is nowhere near "very thick/too thick", ek makes thicker acrylic tubes at 4mm thickness. Primochill rigid tube is only 3.1mm thick while bitspower and e22 tubes are only 2mm thick.

If you've been using primo rigid tube and it's been cracking, your temperatures are wrong bro. Acrylic Bending is a delicate thing. Afaik, primochill makes excellent acrylic products.

The 750 pump should work perfectly fine if you don't go overboard with the loop size. However if you're going to do long term, then consider buying the d5 kit or opting for the swiftech h220/h320. The swiftech kit may not look like much, but it comes with an excellent pump and water block inside.

1/2 ID a bit to big right. Lol

Yep, if it both says 750 then difference is just rad. Though some of it may have different water block (rasa/raystorm)

750 is the pump model, now V4 IINM.

Hahaha. . 1/2 rigid acrylic would be insane to see though. It'll be having test tubes in your case.

The 750 to d5/mcp355/35x upgrade path is inevitable, especially when things get serious.

You don't need to go independent pump route. Bay res pump combo is an easy start point.

Haha, no trap bro. It's just what we all end up doing.

What you say is true though, 750 will be fine for starters. It's just when later on itchy then need more oomph.

Oh, something I found out recently. Higher flow rates give you less fluctuations in temperature but same peak temperature levels. This was based on my system running fans at 100%. Room sounded like I had a jet inside.

Thickness is one aspect. If you compare a thick rad with low fpi against a thin rad with high fpi, chances are the temperature will be similar or close.

I think I wrote a bit on it here: https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2946820&hl=

Danger Den. Nice. Haven't heard that for a long time. CNC got. Recently devilish_yin did something like that. Danger Den has closed shop btw. No longer in business.

Yep, Danger Den dah gulung tikar.

AX is pretty much XSPC flagship. lol. And one of those rads are no longer in production I think, I just forgot which.