#Crappy PC

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pine spear
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I am fixing the LEDs on the GPU right now, please ignore them

scarlet sluice
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is it hard line tubing back to the resovoir? either way it looks amazing

pine spear
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i am just really fed up with the cutting bit so i didnt bother getting a bend or an offset

scarlet sluice
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oh well its still amazing

pine spear
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😅

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thx

scarlet sluice
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i wish i felt comfortable doing water cooling on my pc

pine spear
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if you are really uncomfortable go for air cooling on cpu and use watercooling on the gpu (with rad going down)

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so even if it leaks it wont get to and electrical circuits

scarlet sluice
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did you have to change the cooler on the gpu?

pine spear
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perhaps the hardest bit was to pull the stock cooler off

scarlet sluice
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isnt it just some screws and thermal paste?

pine spear
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which is glued to the pcb by thermal paste

pine spear
light goblet
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This looks really nice

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Good job

pine spear
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but you can heat up the entire pcb with a hair dryer so that the thermal paste comes off easier

scarlet sluice
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I do want to watercool my pc but its a m-atx case which could be difficult to do

pine spear
pine spear
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the easiest way to do it is by distro plate + soft tubes

scarlet sluice
pine spear
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i had a pc before but someone else built it for me and i watched

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kinda learned how it went and when it was time to upgrade i just put my memory to the thing

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but soft tubes are dead easy

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also very hard to leak

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if you do all the testing properly

scarlet sluice
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ah okay, then i might just go full water cooling even on the cpu, i might also just get a pressure tester which will be very useful

pine spear
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yeah, when i did the test the pressure dropped so quickly so i had to pull all parts out and re-assemble it, turned out to be that i accidentally broke a rubber seal because i didnt sand my tubes enough and it cut through through the seal

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soft tubes can ignore this potential problem

scarlet sluice
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ah alright ill look into some stuff for it

pine spear
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yeah it really isnt that hard tbh

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soft tubes can sometimes have higher performance than hard tubes

scarlet sluice
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ive heard that is very difficult but you made it seem easy

pine spear
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i didnt bend a single tube in this build, all it is literally using a saw to chop the tubes to the right length

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i wasnt brave enough for bending them

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what's your case btw?

scarlet sluice
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Asus ap201

pine spear
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nice

scarlet sluice
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its big enough i feel like because it can still support a 360mm rad

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how much did you spend on your pressure tester?

pine spear
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but it was super useful

scarlet sluice
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did you but it on amazon?

pine spear
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i got it from overclockers uk

scarlet sluice
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is all of your water cooling stuff ek?

pine spear
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yeah

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it was a rather expensive build

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i think the watercooling parts alone sums up to around £1500

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but it would be much cheaper with soft tubings since you dont need to buy those angled adapters, extenders and offsets

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and the distro too

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thats around £800 less

scarlet sluice
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oh ye it would be cheaper but sadly it seems like ek's website neither has my motherboard nor my case 😭

pine spear
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as long as its lga1700 or 1200 then it will be fine

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or amd4 or amd5

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i dont know a lot about the red team

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but get the waterblock

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the quantum magnitude or velocity2

scarlet sluice
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what about quantum velocity2 (squared)

pine spear
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for this build

scarlet sluice
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im thinking the same