PSC is the original EK design (old)
CSQ is what EK is doing now (new)

if you want to save money on adapters, and if you're doing a black fittings build, hit chrono up. you might have to wait though.

2 metres is about 6.6ft. Settle for the retail box, 10ft for peace of mind and a free bottle of sysprep to clean/rinse/prep your loop. If you're serious about the tubing being perfect, get tube cutters from a hardware store.

IMHO, hard to say for fittings. Even bitspower can leak sometimes. For fittings, just buy what you fancy. Locally, bitspower fittings are the most popular.

Btw, there's no hard fast rule that you have to stick with one brand. Mix and match. Nothing will go wrong. Unless you put aluminium in your loop.

Trust me when I tell you, you will still want the drain valve. Otherwise you're going to have coolant all over the floor of your case and absolutely no shut off switch. I run alphacools in my case with one at the bottom and still I have a drain valve so I can attach a tube to collect my coolant and reuse. Also to be able to stop draining when I want to.

Black chrome/black nickel is not common locally. Only ones I can think of are XSPC black chrome adapters. I'm using black nickel in my rig, all bought from overseas.

really? thought EK would provide it as well since it's a retail package. oh well.

there's no specific tube cutter. you can use scissors or blade. but if you want simple clean and easy, tube cutters works wonders. cutting with scissors might not give you a completely clean cut and it won't be totally straight. I'm a little anal and have all my tubing straight and flush fit into the comps.

the drain valve is a ball valve so it's got a shut off. a three way fitting works (t-joint) for the purpose. you don't need a 4-way. Also, the drain valve has a G1/4" female thread so you can just add a barb there to add tube.

Ah. Koolance. okay. Well, they have the ball valve here:

http://koolance.com/vlv-bl1x2-ball-valve

or bitspower here:



you just need a male-male rotary adapter to fit it onto the junction block which you can find like this:

Bitspower T-block

Actually no. You can get the Koolance one from niclasteoh for about 80+. A bitspower one will cost more than that

Branding. btw, Koolance is a US brand, but made in Korea.

Then again, with regards to decisions made over our water cooling components, most people buy out of aesthetics more than performance. Where the components are made don't really matter much. They're all chunks of metal.

Only matters if you are particular about how the product is packaged, the finishing or machining of the product. Only reason I mention machining is coz I've seen blocks or pump tops from different manufacturers with varying qualities of machine finish.

The price is about right, in fact, that's less than what I paid for mine. I paid roughly RM360 for 18 compressions (36USD for 6), and that's excluding shipping from US.

If you have plans to change up to acrylics in the future, buy monsoon compression fittings.

Yeah, the alphacool one is super awesome.

I have an aqua computer delrin reservoir if you're interested.

Use brasso to polish?

You can check compatibility using EK's compatibility checker. You can get a rough estimate from there.

EK Cooler Compatibility Check But different blocks are different. So can't say 100%

You looking to investing in a cooling system or are you just looking for something to cool? coz if you're just looking for something to cool your rig, then regular air will do. if you're looking to invest then maybe you should state your budget and whether or not you'll want to maintain a water cooled rig.

With that kind of budget, you'll be looking to get either an out of the box liquid cooler or a high end air cooler. Maintenance: top up water, cleaning dust, check o-rings if necessary. As for the GPU, typically the cooler that it comes with will be good enough. You'll only need third party coolers if your case air flow is really bad or you're pushing your card to its limits, a lot.

Drain/refill can be done as and when necessary really. I just did for my loop coz I changed out my reservoir. Just collect the fluid when draining and reuse if it's still good.

For air cooling, yes, my money's with Noctua too. Pricey like hell, but excellent products with good after sales service online support

Looks good.

Lucassss Sentinel92

Not meant to poison. lol.

I'm liking the new bracket design.

Yeah, only thing on my list of things to purchase some day are new rads, and a new D5 (for now). Just upgraded my reservoir that'll take dual D5s.

Haha! Totally up to you la really. Just so long your coolant levels and clarity are good and your rads are dust free you can leave it be.

XSPC raystorm 750 should work at your budget. I think it's less than 600. But check if your case will be able to take the rad and the dual 5.25" bay res.

That's the way la!

Nah, not poisoning myself. No point yet. Next year maybe la, when the new socket releases. Socket 1151.

Oh sheeetttt.

You don't need water cooling for a torrent rig. lol. Just build a low powered rig with as small TDP as you can find and go with air. My home server is running an AMD E350 Zacate, I think.

Yeah, AFAIK EK is held by APES locally.

Nice. Using the same ones myself. Did you get them locally?

I hope you've got a fan controller or voltage reducers for the fans though. At full speed, they're like jet engines.

Yeah, locally not available. AFAIK. haha. When 'Blacknoise' was 'noise blocker', APES used to sell their fans.

Yeah, the fans are pretty unique coz of the blade design. There is an issue though, if you use on pull there's a hum.

Good that your case has a controller.