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B-Mac posted:Been hemming and hawing on water cooling for my first time. Anyone have any experience with barrow or bykski? Found what appears to be a Chinese retailer (formulamod.com) selling these brands for significantly cheaper than EKWB or other US retailers. Googling seems to say they are good quality but I thought I’d ask here first. I've only ever heard good things about barrow. I'd go with them myself if the websites selling them in the UK had all the parts I need instead of only half.
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Do Phanteks Glacier not do their own 16mm tubing? I assume not all 16mm PETG tubing is the same, which company works well with Phanteks Glacier?
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Aug 20, 2020 21:00
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The manual speed control on my pump is on the bottom, which is floating 5mm off a shelf in the tower making it impossible to change speed. Is there something I could connect inline between the pump and the power supply, a simple turn knob dial to control speeds?) I think I have a PWM pump in storage somewhere if there's a manual PWM controller I could buy? I spent more time than I should have choosing which fittings to use. Went with Phanteks Glacier.  
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Sep 2, 2020 19:34
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Crossposting from reddit, I'm trying (and failing) to install an EK-Velocity waterblock to my Gigabyte Aorus z390 Master. The solder bits are sticking up too high?? Any recommendations?
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Nov 15, 2020 16:50
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It's hitting the 4 on the bottom and the 12 on the top [edit] This backplate (with the center rubber removed) 
Ak Gara fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Nov 15, 2020 |
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Nov 15, 2020 17:56
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The solder bits stops the rubber part from sitting flat    
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Nov 15, 2020 21:39
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Thanks, I'll try that. 
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Nov 16, 2020 07:10
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Jesus christ lining the inside of my tower with black acrylic might have been a bad idea. What's a good anti static wipe that actually repels dust, but doesn't use alcohol? All I can find on amazon are essentially normal wet wipes.
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Jan 24, 2021 19:17
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I think I'm gonna have to do something, even when it's all finished it's going to be a dust magnet. Finally got around to putting in the motherboard, M.2 drives, RAM, CPU, and CPU block. One of the two reservoirs too. Still figuring out the tube pathing. I'm thinking from left reservoir to GPU, to left lower radiator, then straight up to top radiator, to CPU, from CPU to right hand side reservoir. Or I might do dual loop, or a figure 8. Options!   
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Jan 24, 2021 22:42
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Yup. It's a nice case. Everyone was doing the o11 dynamic but I wanted something different with dual thick 420mm rads. I think the V3000 is discontinued now though which is a shame.
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Jan 26, 2021 00:32
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Some other super towers I was considering are the Corsair 900D, Thermaltake The Tower 900 (dual 560mm rad, but with no airflow over motherboard), Thermaltake Core W100 (3x 140mm in front and 4x 140mm or 3x 200mm on top) and the Thermaltake Core X9 just because how insane it was. W100  Core X9  
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Jan 26, 2021 07:10
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If I run out of 6 pin pcie to molex slots on my power supply, can I put the 6 pin pcie into an 8 pin slot? I have a lot of items that require molex power and I want to avoid chaining too many on one strip.
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Jan 29, 2021 23:47
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I think all new CPU's have very good shutdown protection so it's probably fine. Pump failure is one of the reasons I went with dual pumps, with a flow sensor to an Aquaero 6 to let me know / shut the system down if there's no flow.
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Jan 31, 2021 22:09
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B-1.1.7 Bomber posted:I'm building out a new pc and picked a bad time to do it because AMD does't produce CPUs anymore.; however, this has given me a lot of time to buy all the other poo poo, including a big fuckoff water system I've always wanted to do. Half the fun of my current build is that I have no idea what I'm doing. Sure I'm going to end up with a handful of left over unused fittings because I don't know what I need. Plus I decided 90 degree fittings look better than 45 degree ones. Then changed my mind about PETG and changed to acrylic because it cuts much better. Then changed my pumps from the kind with a speed dial on them to software controlled pwm pumps, and changed from Corsair LED's to Aquacomputer LED's because I hate Corsair's LED control software and I'll probably change things still before the build is done but it's a continuous flowing process. I'm currently trying to decide if I should get a second small power supply (Corsair SF450) dedicated to powering the pumps just so it makes filling the loop easier as once all the tubes are in, it's going to be a pain to plug all the cables into the motherboard and gpu. I also just brought a 24 pin + internal usb 3.0 90 degree adapters, and they look so much better than the cables sticking up vertically and having to do a 180 in the air. Might try and get some for the dual 8 pin EPS my motherboard uses, plus some 8 pin PCIE 180 degree ones.
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Feb 2, 2021 21:09
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I had to pull off some real magic to get the LED's to work. (First I had to learn about 12v RGB vs 5v D-RGB) This is the Phanteks Halo Lux Digital  It ends in a fan style 3 pin large connector.  Which plugs into a D-RGB Motherboard adapter  Which then plugs into this  Then into this  Which finally plugs into the Farbwerk 360  The Phanteks Neon strips work the same way.
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Feb 3, 2021 03:57
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And I have 3 farbwerk 360's, 7 fans, 7 phanteks halo's, 4 phanteks neon strips, several farbwerk d-rgb strips, d-rgb cpu block, d-rgb gpu block and 2 pumps. My back panel is going to be a MESS. Nothing like the computer I'm using as inspiration.   [edit] vs mine: (now I feel bad)
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Feb 3, 2021 04:40
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B-1.1.7 Bomber posted:
Is this what a homeless PC looks like? 
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Feb 5, 2021 13:02
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I'm waiting for a couple of 14mm spacers so the CPU fitting will be inline with the radiator fitting, ETA a month :/
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Feb 6, 2021 02:16
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Which tube? The one on the left is bottom rad straight up to top rad, I was surprised I only needed a 90 into a 90 fitting for that. What amazes me is the gpu fitting is perfectly in the same axis as the reservoir. Just a 90 going right to meet the reservoir going up.
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Feb 6, 2021 06:17
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I'm liking those 90 degree adapters for the 24 pin and internal USB 3.0. Still a month away from ordering my cables though as Cablemod are currently busy Doing Stuff™ I did consider doing a GPU CPU Parrallel line setup but they didn't line up so   Next bit to do is the flow meter to radiator. Can't really do any more until my spacers arrive for the rad > cpu fitting. 
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Feb 6, 2021 15:19
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Warmachine posted:Why not extend the GPU > Res connection a bit and save yourself a fitting? Something in the way? I did considered it but the tubing being in front of the res didn't kinda look right.   [edit] I like how the pumps have a really nice black braided pwm wire but exposed power wires. Gonna have to fix that with a cable cover. Don't know if it's a trick of the camera angle or if I need to increase the tube coming out of the flow sensor. :/ 
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Feb 7, 2021 00:49
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All the pipes done. Currently doing an air pressure test. I ran out of M-M fittings so am having to use a weird janky telescopic GPU fitting I had laying around to connect the pressure gauge. I'm not confident in it's ability to hold air. How much pressure drop per hour is normal?  
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Feb 12, 2021 16:02
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It lost 0.04 bar in an hour. Might have to use the washing up liquid to find which fitting(s) need seeing to
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Feb 12, 2021 16:47
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It's a Dr Drop. I was testing at 0.5 bar so I guess that's less than 10% drop. What I'm going to do is actually just cap off the Dr Drop and test that alone.
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Feb 12, 2021 20:37
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Warmachine posted:For me it is a noise thing and a challenge thing. If your radiator is big enough you can run the cooling without fans altogether!
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Feb 13, 2021 01:01
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ilkhan posted:It's still noctua unless you can't stand the color scheme or want LED. Yo I'ma blow your mind. They make black now. (plus Phanteks Halo Digital make any fan DRGB)  I've tried to ignore that drat red wire, but I can't so went and brought some mesh cable wrap stuff. I also got a mains > molex for when I'm filling the loop.  dry location sue only no-sfrviceable parts inside for use withaudio video equifment zone dangereuse made in china I'm sure it'll be fine!
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Not the Redux, not the Industrial PPC, but the Chromax Black. They have the same specs as the brown ones
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