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No-spill quick disconnects (QDC) are the best thing to happen to watercooling. I'm sad I got out of it before they became a thing (I only ever really used low-spill QDCs and holding a bunch of tissue beneath the fitting as you unplug it is kind of an adrenaline rush, what I like to live dangerously okay). But they are real flow killers, so just go serial with two pumps if you have a ton in your loop. Then you get redundancy as well. I used to run 2 modded diyinhk DDC2s in serial. They weren't exactly quiet. But QDCs make replacing components trivial. If you get a new GPU/block, all you have to do is disconnect, install new component, reconnect, then top up your resevoir and bleed for about 2 minutes. So much better than tearing down the loop, draining, etc.
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Gibbo posted:Quick disconnects are pretty nice, but between the price and what their actually function is, why would you ever use more than one or two? For me, I stuck them in tubes on the blocks. That way, when I switched out my mobo/cpu/gpu I could just plug in new blocks into the existing loop without pulling out the radiators from the case. I had an MM H2G0 matx cube case with 2 x 120x2 and 2 x 120x1 radiators and taking out the whole thing is just a huge pain in the rear end as the case doesn't give you much room unless you tear it all apart. This was back when I was switching up graphics cards and CPUs fairly often. For a set-it-and-forget it, I could see why you wouldn't need them, but for any future loop I do, I will always make my CPU block and GPU block fully detachable without having to remove any other component of the loop. But even 4 QDCs is enough to hurt flow quite a bit. Edit: It also makes testing and troubleshooting components trivially easy. This scenario has happened to me plenty of times: Build closed loop, power on new system, no graphics output. Want to throw in another card to test it? Either you tear down the loop or try to slot another one in while holding the maybe-faulty one or perching it somewhere or maybe the PCIE x4 slot if your tubing allows that movement without kinking. Got a small matx case? Good luck. Being able to just pull out the block+card, slot in a length of tubing with QDCs to "complete" the loop, and then you can throw in another card to test. Shrimp or Shrimps fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Aug 27, 2016 03:45
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Vapochill feels like it's been around for ages. Or was around for ages. I don't even know if they're still around.
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Sep 8, 2016 07:40
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Fragrag posted:Reading this thread while on vacation in South East Asia makes me have crazy ideas on water cooling my hot rear end bedroom at my grandma's until I remember LinusTechTips did it and it was an absolute disaster. Don't see why not. I live in SEA and summers here hit 34~5c at 90% humidity and I watercooled just fine without an aircon. In the end, watercooling just keeps the delta between ambient and max temps lower. Unless you meant trying to actually cool your bedroom with water?
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Sep 8, 2016 16:36
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I keep wanting to get back into watercooling and build my own "semi-custom" loop by putting quick disconnects on everything and then driving it all with two DDCs in serial to get past the flow restriction. But I know it'd be a huge waste of money since I don't swap out components nearly as often as I used to when QDCs would actually have been useful. That was over 6 years ago, and I'm now regrettably far too gunshy to drop serious dosh on watercooling anymore. I like EK's semi-custom expandable loops with the QDCs where you can add in a GPU to the CPU loop.
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Jan 16, 2017 07:31
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Heck it wouldn't be difficult to prefill your own radiator with quick disconnects. I mean, if you're starting from scratch may as well buy the prefilled stuff, but if you already have components just slap QDCs on them and prefill using a fill line. You won't fully bleed the system that way, but it's a heck of a lot quicker than doing it the traditional, turn on pump for 2 seconds, stop, fill res, turn on pump for 2 seconds, stop, fill res, method.
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Jan 17, 2017 01:50
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PerrineClostermann posted:The other 10% is "it's cool designing and putting together a loop." I used to be way into it, even after a bad start (shorting my mobo because of a leak), but over about a 4-year watercooling career, found it to just be tedious in the end. At one point I had three (!) GTX 295's watercooled in a serial loop with my CPU and two modded DIYINHK DDC's driving it all through 2x120x2 and 2x120x1 rads. Or at another point had QDCs on my GPU block, CPU block, and each rad, allowing me to effortlessly change out components (which I of course never loving did). I've still got sitting in a box the old-style spaced PA120.2's from Thermochill which can't sell a drat since they don't adhere to standard fan spacing, and have been thinking about getting back into it with my MM H2G0 case specifically cut for those rads. But every time I even think about it for maybe 5 minutes, I realize how much of a hassle it is, and how the relative gains versus a good air cooler are now slimmer than ever. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I got old and no longer care if my rig looks cool or benchmarks well, and it's certainly not worth the effort trade-off and high cost to me anymore. But every now and then I take out the rads and peer at my case and consider it.
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I kind of feel like breaking a PC component when doing your first custom loop is pretty much a rite of passage, but maybe I'm just trying to feel better about how clumsy and careless I was the first time. And the second. I learned an important lesson that you don't just trust your hand-screwed in barbs. Take a spanner and give it another quarter turn.
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Jun 11, 2017 04:08
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Paper towels everywhere. My first ever loop I leaked right onto my motherboard. Fun times.
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Jun 21, 2017 02:29
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Deuce posted:And this is a youtube professional computer guy! lol he must have it plugged in. I can't really tell but it looks like just beneath the ram he's got the 20 pin in. Poor bastard. Forgetting to screw in the cap on the back of a GPU block is already pretty indefensible since it's like the most obvious thing you absolutely need to do, but then filling / leak testing with his mobo plugged in and no freaking paper towels anywhere is even worse. 
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Jun 21, 2017 03:17
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Solumin posted:Also keep in mind that EKWB is based in Slovenia, so you probably don't want to order directly from them unless you're in the EU. When I was at the top of my WC game (2 x GTX 295 waterblocks + CPU + 2 + Thermochill PA120.2s + 2 x 120.1 Black Ice SR2 rads + 2 x DDC2 DIYINHK modded, letmejustlistmycredsthanks), Performance-PCs was my go-to store. However, they do overcharge on shipping as I later confirmed with weights / shipping costs. Not sure if that's the case now as this was 5+ years ago, but that rubbed the the wrong way. As someone who is part-owner of an online store, we don't try and make money with excessive shipping charges, nor try to play it off as a quirk of the automated "calculator". Shrimp or Shrimps fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Aug 7, 2017 15:52
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See if they'll cross-ship. Or return for refund and buy another one and eat the shipping cost. Not worth a leak.
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Aug 8, 2017 06:15
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Deuce posted:Leaky EK monoblock update: That is impressive service. To be honest with you I thought they wouldn't offer to cross ship.
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Aug 13, 2017 03:40
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Scholtz posted:
What about if you mount the rad on the front to intake cool air, and exhaust hot air out the top?
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Sep 24, 2017 06:46
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Hello! What kind of trouble are you looking at trying to run a 320w 3080 and stock 10700k off a single 240 or 280mm rad (custom loop FC GPU and 'monoblock' cpu+vrm in an NR200) if all you do is game, and the most intensive CPU game you play currently is BFV, and will play soon is the new Hitman games or Cyberpunk?
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Mar 1, 2021 06:31
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That is one thicc rad. Are those QDCs, and how are you going to place it?
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Apr 4, 2021 02:54
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drat that distro block is cool as. I wish something like that existed for the NR200, maybe replace the right side panel or something. Let others see the mess of cables I stuffed back there!
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May 10, 2021 01:13
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sarr posted:This is pretty wild if it works like the video shows: Filling a system actually becomes cool instead of a pita
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Jun 15, 2021 04:47
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At 1:29 that actually looks like soft tubing? Or do my eyes deceive me?
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Jun 15, 2021 12:23
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Can you run two different pumps in the same loop without damaging one? Searching the interweb is giving me some mixed responses, from no you will cause cavitation in your pump and 'pressure spikes' to yes, impellers offer very little resistance and the weaker pump will only accelerate the flow less. Basically I'm looking at throwing in a Barrow DDC CPU block combo into a loop that only has the Alphacool DC-LT pump which is significantly less powerful. E: Adding CPU into the Alphacool GPU-only AIO loop, and also looking for pump redundancy hence a pump-cpu block rather than just block. If it'll be an issue, I'll just opt for the Alphacool pump-cpu block that has the same pump. Shrimp or Shrimps fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Aug 16, 2021 |
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SourKraut posted:You're not going to get cavitation, it just may cost you a little performance on paper that you probably won't even notice. Thanks! Glad to hear mixing pumps isn't going to be a huge issue then.
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