Hello guys sharing my watercooling journey...
Tk for taking time read my "essays" but hope u learn something from this.
At first like any guys i was really excited about watercooling. I obviously had big idea in minds and this started early last year 2013.
Around mid year i already decided wt parts im going to get and not few months after that i already got my pc parts
At that time somewhere middle of the year the things i had was :-
Powercolor LCS R9 290X x 4
Kingston Hyper X Beast 2400mhx ( 8 x 8 = 64gb)
Rampage IV Black Edition
Cooler Master Jet Flow 120 x 18 set
Corsair 900d
Well getting the parts was not a huge problem just have to hunt down for a good price.
My first headache was trying to get hands on a 1500psu to power the components.
Obviously i cant get my hands on the psu from any of local distributor due to no stock or actually "i dont care about your 1500psu since ur are 1 in a 1000 that needs it"
So finally i manage talked to cudo technologies to preorder the corsair ax1500i. They say the stock will arrive around early 9/2013 or 10/2013.
So far so good all was going fine since i had a psu which was 1200wat cooler master.
I then ordered some watercooling parts from apes which was 2 pumps a good wan but forget the model. 1 reservoir and of course the tubing.
So, i drive to apes get the parts. Back home then i realized apes didnt not inform me i need some extra parts to connect the pump to the water pump head.
Yes i did got pissed since im a noobie, i expected professional people such as apes to inform me. Moreover i did confront them i dont know anything that where we discussed i need 2 pumps and bla bla bla.
I called them and they said sorry, the say they will post it to me. Well anyways its not that the postage is free also. So, i said i will just come back again to collect the parts. U know i had in mind going there more often to the shop to build our relationship.
Then i got all my parts i started working on it and end up frying 2 of my graphic due to leakage. F_._K Me man....
Then had no choice pay for the shipping to immediately send my graphic card to claim warranty. This is due to my graphic card import straight from factory shipping from taiwan i guess.
That was the time when the person i talked to at cudo technologies recommend me a guy with expertise on watercooling.
When i decided to send my pc to apes then when she said the person she recommend me also works for apes.
I did not waste any time and called up this fellow to make appointment to collect my rig to do the watercooling. Obviously i dont want to screw my other components like wt happen to my graphic card.
He collected my rig and collected working fee in advance. I trusted him so i did not mine paying him his labour fees in advance.
To be honest based on the pc parts i bought u guys should know im not building some kind of normal watercooling rig. I actually planned to to do aryclic tubing, custom paint my pc. U know the cool stuff.
Thats where i dont know i was going to be coned big time from that moment. I forget the mention that i already had 2 x 480 rad and 1 x 360 rad.
Of course the person i sent to at start said it all can be done. So he ask me to deposit some money to buy extra reservoir, custom sleeve my cables for the psu, get extra radiator, money for fittings, and later on some money for rotatory fittings. I nearly gave him around 2.8 to 3 k excluding his labour fees.
The worse part still coming when I received my psu only this year February. Wt the hell why so long. Everytime i contacted cudo ask them about my psu they say "ship on the way". Yah on the way i didnt know ship still use furnace powered by charcoal. Understand the joke nvm...
Time flies it was already september of 2014 and guess wt i still didnt receive my rig. I was keep informed by him the same freaking excuse most of the time. Parts havent arrived. Then i give up hope asked him to send me the rig. Since he said still never received the "sleeved extension cables and fan controller". So i say to him he can post the things to me when he receives it.
I got my rig from him on middle of 10/2014.... Best still until now he havent send me the sleeved extension cables and fan controller. I forget to mention that actually he said specifically that my cables from the psu will be sleeved somewhere middle around this year then end up change his words saying only buying sleeved cables extension. I did not bother much since i hoped as long my rig looks good then its fine. But still end up my pc looks like this.
Wt i expected from him
http://www.apes.my/?product=end-game-nzxt-820# - go through some pics u know wt i mean, its not the spec, im referring to the watercooling build
Wt i get from him
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Pls leave a comments.....Did anywhone got screwed like me, wt u think, wt u think i should have done, advices.

Everytime look at my pc i fell emotional. I fell many things can be done but now i just dont have the fund cause i spend most of it. Even now im thinking whether i shall continue to fund and finish my dream rig. Im not hoping for the best rig in the world. Just hoping for professional custom watercooled pc. Did i dream to much haiz...