Aik. Backfired on me pulak.

ealt Consider looking up chrono_kairo for fittings. From what I've seen on his threads, the fittings look to be of excellent quality.

Also, like what Lucas said, streamlining your rads to use 120mm fans will be easier. Good rad fans for 140mm are hard to come by, especially locally. Unless you plan on waiting out and hoping that the new Noctua range reaches our stores and probably carry a price tag anywhere from RM 6X to RM 8X.

And I think ejoysan is no longer selling water cooling parts. Better to hit up the APES guys who are on the forums. I personally know who's who but I won't disclose who they are just in case. Message them on Facebook or give them a call and I'm pretty sure they'll be happy to help you out with EK parts. AFAIK, they're the best source for EK.

This post has been edited by pristine: Jun 5 2014, 11:21 PM

All bitspower. And EK. and the only person I know that has a hard drive water block. zeifer274 you still have that block ah? lol.

If you want all out EK, then the PE rads are it. As for fans for the PE rads, I've lost touch with current fan trends. Apparently the new CM one is pretty good. Otherwise I guess the regular recommended fans are Corsair, Scythe GT (if you still can get them), Noiseblockers/Black Noise, Noctuas, Deltas (if you can stand the noise), Sanyo Denki (niclasteoh has them), Swiftech Helixes aren't too bad if you're on a budget and want white fans.

btw, decide if you want acrylic tube or flexible tube as the fittings are different unless you intend on purchasing Monsoon fittings from overseas.

woi. your images damn fat.

Sentinel92 already gave quite a good answer but I'll chip in anyway.

If you're happy with the h100i then by all means just keep it. But if you're out for more cooling performance, meaner looks or maybe even bragging rights, change out for a custom loop.

But if you're gonna change, be prepared to dump money into it as it won't be cheap, can ask Sentinel92 about his experience from trying to budget. Pretty sure he failed.

Going custom water cooling is excellent if you don't plan on changing parts out often and wanting the best daily cooling performance your main components can get without going LN2 or phase cooling.

Leaks are common, plasticiser is slowly becoming a minor issue, maintenance for the loop (refill, drain, clean) is unavoidable. But it comes with the looks, performance and benefits of using a custom loop. Do things well and you'll be perfectly fine. Keep track of your coolant and you'll be fine. Don't let your pump run dry and you'll be fine.

Why people leave? Maybe they start changing components too often, get tired of the maintenance or tired of the hassle when it comes to disassembling and reassembling. Could even be the cost of changing out coolant. But really, you can just cheap out and use distilled water with cheap inhibitors (silver coil) and you're fine. People leave also because they move to more portable and powerful devices or just give up wanting water cooling performance in general. Don't let it bother you, especially if you haven't tried.

If you're worried you won't like the journey, buy parts with excellent resell value or cheap parts. Just don't make any purchases that'll you come to regret

You can start small, get a Swiftech H220 or H320. They're as close to custom cooling as it comes and expandable to a certain degree without busting the bank. If you want to go all out from the get go, grab an XSPC kit and change out the tubing for aftermarket XSPC or primochill tube.

If you really want to measure idle temps, you'll need to make sure your mounting is perfect and that your processor has proper internal TIM if not soldered. Otherwise quite pointless taking note of idle temps.

When I ran my 3770K before delid, it was 32C idle, 51C load at ambient temps of 25C using 360mm. 34C idle, 53C max at ambient temps of 25C using 240mm. This was all single rad tests, open bench, no GPU.

I don't remember, but I think my idle dropped to 27. My rig is under a table somewhere in my house. No time to layan.

If you want to delid and don't dare, ask Ace to do for you. Just pay service fee. haha. If you've got the guts to, watch a couple of videos, grab a friend for spare hands and find a table mounted vice grip, hammer and wood/old hard drive.

But warning yeah, how much change in temps you'll get depends on how well you put back the lid and the TIM you use.

Horrible road to travel bro. Heat killers and aqua computer blocks are the things that kill pockets and break hearts. Can ask sentinel92

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Horrible road to travel bro. Heat killers and aqua computer blocks are the things that kill pockets and break hearts. Can ask sentinel92

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What do you mean?

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They look awesome, made of perfection and perform like gods (most of the time). But they aren't available locally and so they cost so much that buying one directly from Aquatuning/FCPU/PPC is like probably buying nearly 2 EK waterblocks locally.

Your wallet will be like the Hindenburg.

LOL. Current job requires me to do that so what to do. Event's in a week! stress sial.

Can't wait for it to be over. I want to get back to gaming.

Why can't fit? Wrong thread, size or length?

You don't have to go buy a new top la. lol. Just use the stock screws, or get 4 new screws.

Maybe the reason not many have owned HWLabs rads or don't know of them. Which I feel is a shame. Excellent excellent stuff. Only reason I never got them was coz initial case constrain.

Next change, definitely.

cstkl1 Did you get your SR-1s? Or went with the Nemesis range?

Sounds good. Looking forward to seeing some results from your end for the nemesis rads. I know one of our members has a Feser Admiral.

Good luck with fedex!

Locally you have choice of Primochill, EK and Bitspower. Price range from abour 22- 35 or so depending.

Try asking niclasteoh. He might be able to get you the Koolance adapter.

If your PPC order hasn't been packed, send them an email to swap out the part. They can do that for you.

I think with both rads pushing air out of the case, the rads might not get sufficient cooling. You kinda starve the fans from air.

Pushing air into your case from both sides will give your rads enough cool air. Your issue will be with dust.

One rad pushing in and the other pushing out will have one rad with reduced efficiency coz it'll be using exhaust air from the other rad. But if you use the 280 side to draw air in and push it towards your 560, that would be fine.

I doubt the RPM of your fans matter.

This post has been edited by pristine: Jul 30 2014, 06:35 PM

Demciflex filters.

share some photos of your loop later on yeah?

Yeah, customs will tax everything if they look at the manifest. When I did my bulks I had to spend a day to have the classifications corrected coz of customs incompetence.

Monsoon fittings are awesome. Using them in my rig. You even have the option of changing them out to take acrylic tube if you ever decide to go there.