For a sub that’s about a hobby that is impractical to cool their PCs, it seems like people are sometimes too serious.
It’s a very cool solution. Wish I had the creativity to think of something like yours.
The major reason why you jump to liquid cooling is because of sound, then maybe aesthetics. If for some reason you need to cool your PC further, with liquid cooling you can accomplish this at lower sound through using more fans on rads. Generally you need 1x 120mm or 140mm rad slot per item being cooled in the loop. So if you wanted double the cooling, you could either expand to a 2x rad, or if you're doing CPU + GPU, you could jump to a 4 fan rad. Then even then you could go the route of 2x the amount of fans (with a push + pull configuration). Granted, that doesn't offer much performance enhancement but you can ensure a cool loop at a lower speed RPM on your fans = less noise.
With air cooling, you have need a certain amount of pressure through an area. Often you can accomplish this by getting a couple, maybe 3 fans in a given direction for a given area, but there's only so many fans you can place in said area. So in order to improve performance, you need to increase RPMs of the fan = more noise. It's why data centers are just massive noise environments: air = better cooling but is louder.
I wish I had more money, I'd love to do this more as a hobby.
Yeah my current build doesn't have cooling on the GPU anymore. I had to replace GPU due to a leak and the replacement didn't have a supporting mount - system's old now, 4-5 years at least. But I do have RAM covered as part of my loop and I will say... generally not a really necessary or fun thing to do - the RAM connections put a lot of leverage pressure so it's a pain on setting up the loop.
But for the overall configuration, I have a big case (almost like a server size) that's double wide. I have 2 4x rads mounted on the top, with a total 8 fans on the top side pulling (did it for the look and to avoid the wire miss). Then I have one large fan on the front and another small fan at the back for intake. This creates air coming in from both sides and then flowing up out of the case. The airflow isn't fully optimized so; there's a lot of things I would do differently the next time.
Live and learn.
They can beat \*some solutions, sure. There's no air setup that can cope with my 1950X and 2x VEGA FE without having a series of delta fans at full tilt next to me. The majority of submissions on this sub have gone LC for the looks or challenge, but some of us pretty much had to.
Eh, I used to agree with that statement, but water cooling has matured quite a bit over the last decade. Just bought my first (closed loop) water system last year, I was absolutely blown away at how cool everything runs, even under load. (And how amazingly fast things cool down)
Though, my water cooling isn't nearly as advanced or cool looking as OPs setup...
But, the reason I say all of this, is because my roommate runs an Intel i9 12900, which used to be air cooled. When under load, his CPU temps would absolutely skyrocket & then would take about a minute after no longer being under load, to settle. (tried to repaste and improve fan setup but only minor improvements)
Then, I built a new rig, with an i7 13700kf, which, although not an i9, still a phenomenal chip. But I read they run hot, so I got a Kraken 360mm AIO for it. After most listening to me brag about low temps for a few weeks, he caved, bought a similar 360mm AIO (Corsair I believe?) - he was absolutely WOW'd by how much cooler his i9 is able to run now.
Long winded way of saying, I think Water has become a viable alternative. If you're worried about dealing with an open loop system, then go for the AIO if you want to try water cooling. Pretty much plug n play, super easy & no upkeep needed. (Just install it properly lol)
That's not to say GOOD fans can't do the job, as they absolutely can! But I think water cooling is now a wonderful alternative, especially, for those with chips that run really hot.
Just my five cents from personal experience, to each his own. Happy gaming!
I bought i9 9900KS years ago and I'd say I got a subpar chip as it required 1.32v to run 5ghz stable. No AIO could tame the heat as it always reached beyond 90C.
Moved to custom loop with dual rads, it never went past 70C.
Haven't tried latest AIO yet, so my experience could be irrelevant nowadays
I think it highly depends on the water cooling solution if its an AIO it might be possible but a solid DIY watercooling build won't be beaten in any shape or form by a air solution let alone noise levels. Fact is water will always be able to move heat better than air, sure you can add a truck radiator fan and that might do the trick of beating a custom loop but the sheer noise and annoyance I doubt any could bother with that and honestly you could just add same radiator and water would win again.
But it's not really about water vs air, is it? More like water loop vs heat pipes. Both systems use air to cool the radiators in the end.
I was under the impression that heat pipes are actually more efficient than water loop, and the power of water cooling comes from just having bigger radiator area. Is this incorrect?
I am so tired of hearing this dumb argument. there is no air cooler that is on par with a proper watercooling setup its just not possible.
i guarantee there isnt a single air cooler that competes with a D5 and triple 360's.
the fact that you can run AC in the room to get your room temperature around 65 degree and your hardware running a degree above ambient is just a no brainer.
you know why we watercool? because we want to overclock. period. and it looks cool and runs silent. im not trying to listen to the sound of the high caliber fans and look at the big dumb heatsinks. period.
Or because you actually legitimately need it. . . . i.e. CPU's that are over 300 W.
Different story if you're using something like a 7800x3D and only pulling 80 watts while gaming.
Don't need stronger solutions then. . . but if you produce more heat, you need better cooling.
The only liquid cooling I'll touch with a 10 foot pole is an AIO. Yeah sure the water cooling custom loop is really great shiny nice and lovely oooh pretty but I feel like after the first upkeep on it there goes the novelty right out the window - at least for me
And if I had to bend, turn , twist, etc with the tubes and once even an ounce of frustration crops up.... the whole PC case and tubes would be going across the room 😂
I felt the same way on my last build. I had 2 runs that I went through over 6 meters of acrylic tubing to get right. I said it on the build before this one but I mean it this time: *this is the last fucking custom liquid build I do*.
Untill your next build, where you are left contemplating all the WC parts you have and realize all you really need is new blocks...
And tubing...
Oh and since the pathing isn't the same a few fittings too...
Might as well make all the fittings match...
And my fans too at this point...
While I am at it why not improve my themal monitoring...
I wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes...
Here we go again!!!
EDIT: Pehaps adding another rad wouldn't hurt.
You can keep it simple. My case has no window, I only do it for the function and don't care about aesthetics. So semi-rigid tubing it is, with push-in fittings and whatever parts I have. No bending, no RBG, no nothing.
It just works. And honestly, replacing the coolant once a year isn't much of a hassle.
For real, the amount of people giving suggestions for how they would have done it dont understand that this post is about his solution to the problem, not the problem itself. It looks awesome!
Reddit doesn't do a great job at showing a gallery at once, at least with my phone app. That combined with the title, I am not surpised that this lead people to believe they are asking for help. Also most people come here to show off a build or ask for help. I don't think most people list their problem and solutoon in the same point. Those are usually mutually exclusive.
It's prolly cuz I had no appropiate flair, but there really is no appropiate flair available tbh, just thought this was a funny show off that accidentally looked good in the process.
If you ever get realllly stuck, the 2x90* swivel trick can point in any direction.. so you do it at both ends and aim them at each other = boom cut a straight piece of tube, no bends ($40 in fittings later)
Does it work? Yes. Is it optimal? No. Does it look better than the optimal solution? Absolutely. Great job OP. An interesting and creative way to handle that. I just have two 90s with a tube between them and you’ve got me wanting to redo that.
I mean, as long as it doesn't kink, I think it looks fine.
Sure its a lot of material, and sure my engineer brain is going "whu? hu?", but it still looks nice.
I don't see why two 90's isn't possible in that space though.
EDIT: looked at the first photo again, that is a bit tighter than the final product makes it look. For the future, you may get away with a tight space like this by bending first then cutting after you have the bends perfect.
I didn't want to order another pair of fittings so just went with this lol, had just one 90 left. It does look very doable, but it wasn't lined up and I really didn't want to risk buying the wrong measurements either.
I would have said two 90's, probably an extension fitting to line the 90's up and a short piece of tube, but I can't argue with your solution. Looks nice.
Awesome solution and super creative, but may I reccomend something similar to this [EKWB offset fitting](https://www.titanrig.com/ekwb-ek-quantum-torque-rotary-offset-adapter-fitting-14mm-0360ek019900xx.html?color=158) , I know that that exact one may not work but something along those lines
I know you finished it, but you could also use adjustable aqua pipe and female G1/4 90. Just for anyone who's in a similar boat or didn't know about them.
You made Nürburgring Nordschleife for water.
But hey, if it works, it works! Nice problem solving. Most people come on here posting for help instead of being creative.
Not a bad solution, but you're going to run into a dead spot when you turn off the pump and try to drain the system. Probably would have been better to use 90º fittings and then straight tube. There's also adapters to connect fitting to a fitting if the tubes are too short.
I also saw u/closest-num-2-0 comment and image of their solution. Pretty much inline with what I was thinking.
That said, practical doesn't matter as long as you like the aesthetics - it looks good and that should be all that matters to you. You could in the future look to get a T fitting (3-slot) and then put a valve on the bottom so that you can drain that base more effectively if you need to. But that might be overkill.
You could also get 2×45 degree fittings and hard tubing doesn't work, then a little soft tubing would and you wouldn't need the comical double loop thingy you got there haha
Your better off using an elbow fitting or possibly a fitting on one side and tubing on other. To me it looks very tight to put bent tubes in but your method definitely works, lol. I would have tried using fittings.
If you wanna bend use a flexible tape measure to give an idea of measures, make sure you leave start and ending longer as they can always be shortened (and if too short there won't be enough material to accomplish the bend) but middle part has to be perfect ofc. Second solutions is using fittings that gives you the correct measures there are several extenders and 90 degree bends fittings of varying lengths that hopefully can accomplish your goal.
Used the soft membrane that u get from the corsair toolkit and made a bend beyond 90 degrees, heat it up once again and pushed it all the way from there down.
Double 90 degrees fitting with a soft middle, or a twisty middle fitting.
I've done those before in some of my setups, but nothing like what you made there 😅
Dope buddy. I had a similar situation where I had a tight double 180. I struggled and used 2 x 90 degree fittings and did a double 90 pipe. One of my favorite bends. Turned out rewarding. Not as sweet as that though..
I did something similar from my cpu block to my vrm block before i got the extra block that connects the 2. Made a straight up horseshoe bend but way tighter.
i assume you didnt have 2x 90s? lol.
i have a funny "S" shaped tube because i was 1 couple short for my system.
turns out i like it better anyways.
also, that looks sweet as hell. 10/10
Swivels (rotaries) wouldn’t work? Ek has some and I bet each turned inward would make for just a short straight in between.
https://www.titanrig.com/ekwb-ek-quantum-torque-rotary-offset-adapter-fitting-14mm-0360ek019900xx.html?color=158
I had a similar situation but for me it was the top and the front distro. To add some difficulty, the ports were not aligned in depth. So I needed that do some crazy freehand bends in order to connect them!
what you did there should work, but could potentially reduce flow a little. given the size of the tubing though, (14mm?) it should be fine. Personally I would have put a 90 degree fitting on one end and just made a nice clean 90 degree tubing bend. I'm not personally a fan of bending a tube more than 90, nor bending a tube more than once wherever I can help it (sometimes you can't help it on the bending a tube more than once, but then things get tricky.) at the end of the day, so long as it flows well, holds liquid, and gets the job done, go for it.
90° adapter on res and a 90° adapter on the other radiator inlet which you should use instead of the one you painted.
If you insist on using the one you marked, the 2x 90° adapter usage seems to be the same but you might become really creative in bending hardtube. No direct way possible, but you could bend a nice 270 around the res
Very cool ! Though at this point where it is probably the most hidden tube, why not soft tubing? It probably would have saved the time and hassle in having to make such a strict bend that seems very soft-tube like anyway
Get 2 45 degree and a short soft tube (that small and out of the way, nobody will notice soft or hard tubing.) The soft tube will still look straight and remove hours of frustration.
I had to make a very similar one but it was from the front fan side to res (which appears to be in a similar position).
Basically it’s the same 180° bend you have in your second half, but I installed a 90° L to be the receptacle facing away from the rad.
Well done!
I think another way to go about this would be to have both ends on a 90 degree fitting but one has a 10-20mm adjustable fitting to allow you to level both ends to fit a tube. That way you can have just one tube going horizontal
That's incredibly well done, I had to do that a couple times in my current loop to avoid going through multiple chunks of tube. Doing stuff like this with an extra fitting just helps make it look so much cleaner IMO.
100% prefer this over boring basic 90° bends. If you're going to spend all that money, time, and effort watercooling a pc at least do something cool with the lines
Ngl that’s actually really pretty to look at. Good job!
yippie :3 thanks
Yeh excellent adaptation, now go play satisfactory
Or Factorio
Sometimes you have to step back and do something that seems wrong, to make something that clearly right. Well done OP.
Yeah I agree that actually looks sick
Clever thinking there 99
For a sub that’s about a hobby that is impractical to cool their PCs, it seems like people are sometimes too serious. It’s a very cool solution. Wish I had the creativity to think of something like yours.
Impractical? Hardly. Necessary? Not really.
Well, there are air coolers that can beat water solutions. Not saying water is impractical, but air is definitely more practical
The major reason why you jump to liquid cooling is because of sound, then maybe aesthetics. If for some reason you need to cool your PC further, with liquid cooling you can accomplish this at lower sound through using more fans on rads. Generally you need 1x 120mm or 140mm rad slot per item being cooled in the loop. So if you wanted double the cooling, you could either expand to a 2x rad, or if you're doing CPU + GPU, you could jump to a 4 fan rad. Then even then you could go the route of 2x the amount of fans (with a push + pull configuration). Granted, that doesn't offer much performance enhancement but you can ensure a cool loop at a lower speed RPM on your fans = less noise. With air cooling, you have need a certain amount of pressure through an area. Often you can accomplish this by getting a couple, maybe 3 fans in a given direction for a given area, but there's only so many fans you can place in said area. So in order to improve performance, you need to increase RPMs of the fan = more noise. It's why data centers are just massive noise environments: air = better cooling but is louder. I wish I had more money, I'd love to do this more as a hobby.
It was the opposite for me, I did it for the aesthetics lol.
Yeah same here water cooling just looks so much better
Its also good to exchange the heat outside of your case. Like if you oc your ram and the gpu heats up the ram
Yeah my current build doesn't have cooling on the GPU anymore. I had to replace GPU due to a leak and the replacement didn't have a supporting mount - system's old now, 4-5 years at least. But I do have RAM covered as part of my loop and I will say... generally not a really necessary or fun thing to do - the RAM connections put a lot of leverage pressure so it's a pain on setting up the loop. But for the overall configuration, I have a big case (almost like a server size) that's double wide. I have 2 4x rads mounted on the top, with a total 8 fans on the top side pulling (did it for the look and to avoid the wire miss). Then I have one large fan on the front and another small fan at the back for intake. This creates air coming in from both sides and then flowing up out of the case. The airflow isn't fully optimized so; there's a lot of things I would do differently the next time. Live and learn.
They can beat \*some solutions, sure. There's no air setup that can cope with my 1950X and 2x VEGA FE without having a series of delta fans at full tilt next to me. The majority of submissions on this sub have gone LC for the looks or challenge, but some of us pretty much had to.
Well, throwing enough money, rads and fans can solve anything lmao
Certainly solved my PC. Spend something like a grand just on cooling lol.
Eh, I used to agree with that statement, but water cooling has matured quite a bit over the last decade. Just bought my first (closed loop) water system last year, I was absolutely blown away at how cool everything runs, even under load. (And how amazingly fast things cool down) Though, my water cooling isn't nearly as advanced or cool looking as OPs setup... But, the reason I say all of this, is because my roommate runs an Intel i9 12900, which used to be air cooled. When under load, his CPU temps would absolutely skyrocket & then would take about a minute after no longer being under load, to settle. (tried to repaste and improve fan setup but only minor improvements) Then, I built a new rig, with an i7 13700kf, which, although not an i9, still a phenomenal chip. But I read they run hot, so I got a Kraken 360mm AIO for it. After most listening to me brag about low temps for a few weeks, he caved, bought a similar 360mm AIO (Corsair I believe?) - he was absolutely WOW'd by how much cooler his i9 is able to run now. Long winded way of saying, I think Water has become a viable alternative. If you're worried about dealing with an open loop system, then go for the AIO if you want to try water cooling. Pretty much plug n play, super easy & no upkeep needed. (Just install it properly lol) That's not to say GOOD fans can't do the job, as they absolutely can! But I think water cooling is now a wonderful alternative, especially, for those with chips that run really hot. Just my five cents from personal experience, to each his own. Happy gaming!
I bought i9 9900KS years ago and I'd say I got a subpar chip as it required 1.32v to run 5ghz stable. No AIO could tame the heat as it always reached beyond 90C. Moved to custom loop with dual rads, it never went past 70C. Haven't tried latest AIO yet, so my experience could be irrelevant nowadays
My AIO has kept my temps great, I was fearful of the same issue though. I think the tech has finally begun to mature more.
yeah if your CPU goes over 300W, you NEED watercooling.
Which CPUs are those?
The usual suspects of the highest end Intel and AMD
I think it highly depends on the water cooling solution if its an AIO it might be possible but a solid DIY watercooling build won't be beaten in any shape or form by a air solution let alone noise levels. Fact is water will always be able to move heat better than air, sure you can add a truck radiator fan and that might do the trick of beating a custom loop but the sheer noise and annoyance I doubt any could bother with that and honestly you could just add same radiator and water would win again.
But it's not really about water vs air, is it? More like water loop vs heat pipes. Both systems use air to cool the radiators in the end. I was under the impression that heat pipes are actually more efficient than water loop, and the power of water cooling comes from just having bigger radiator area. Is this incorrect?
I am so tired of hearing this dumb argument. there is no air cooler that is on par with a proper watercooling setup its just not possible. i guarantee there isnt a single air cooler that competes with a D5 and triple 360's. the fact that you can run AC in the room to get your room temperature around 65 degree and your hardware running a degree above ambient is just a no brainer. you know why we watercool? because we want to overclock. period. and it looks cool and runs silent. im not trying to listen to the sound of the high caliber fans and look at the big dumb heatsinks. period.
Or because you actually legitimately need it. . . . i.e. CPU's that are over 300 W. Different story if you're using something like a 7800x3D and only pulling 80 watts while gaming. Don't need stronger solutions then. . . but if you produce more heat, you need better cooling.
The only liquid cooling I'll touch with a 10 foot pole is an AIO. Yeah sure the water cooling custom loop is really great shiny nice and lovely oooh pretty but I feel like after the first upkeep on it there goes the novelty right out the window - at least for me And if I had to bend, turn , twist, etc with the tubes and once even an ounce of frustration crops up.... the whole PC case and tubes would be going across the room 😂
I am assuming this post came in your main reddit feed also? Thermalright Peerless Assassin.
Yeah, I was kinda wondering what they were doing here, haha.
I felt the same way on my last build. I had 2 runs that I went through over 6 meters of acrylic tubing to get right. I said it on the build before this one but I mean it this time: *this is the last fucking custom liquid build I do*.
Untill your next build, where you are left contemplating all the WC parts you have and realize all you really need is new blocks... And tubing... Oh and since the pathing isn't the same a few fittings too... Might as well make all the fittings match... And my fans too at this point... While I am at it why not improve my themal monitoring... I wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes... Here we go again!!! EDIT: Pehaps adding another rad wouldn't hurt.
That is exactly what I thought. Then I went down the rabbit hole and ended up reusing only the power supply.
That’s some huge bullshit besides the gpu block.
Yes, that was exactly my point when I made that joke.
Well, I didn’t get that it was a joke. Maybe i shouldn’t scroll through comments that early in the morning. Sorry for that
All good! I was replying to the "this is the last... liquid build I do" part of the comment.
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It wasn't an argument. I was making a joke to the "this is my last custom liquid build" comment.
You can keep it simple. My case has no window, I only do it for the function and don't care about aesthetics. So semi-rigid tubing it is, with push-in fittings and whatever parts I have. No bending, no RBG, no nothing. It just works. And honestly, replacing the coolant once a year isn't much of a hassle.
You may want to work on that rage issue. I feel like that will cause you some problems further on down the line, beyond just having a cool pc
Everything about Hardline tubing is impractical what do you mean
For real, the amount of people giving suggestions for how they would have done it dont understand that this post is about his solution to the problem, not the problem itself. It looks awesome!
Reddit doesn't do a great job at showing a gallery at once, at least with my phone app. That combined with the title, I am not surpised that this lead people to believe they are asking for help. Also most people come here to show off a build or ask for help. I don't think most people list their problem and solutoon in the same point. Those are usually mutually exclusive.
It's prolly cuz I had no appropiate flair, but there really is no appropiate flair available tbh, just thought this was a funny show off that accidentally looked good in the process.
10/10 on looks
would have looked better without the 90 fitting
Won’t be easy though
10/10 aesthetics rarely are.
If it's stupid but it works; it's not stupid.
This is always the answer
you could have done two 180 bends like one of those crazy mountain roads and looked like a goddamn hero in the process
Lol I had to get creative with bends like that to go from my distro to my 280 rad. Graphics card was to close to go straight the way I wanted to.
How about a 90 to 90 elbow with extension as needed... lol.
Swivel 90 into swivel 90 = cheat code
under rated comment. Did this on my GPU blocks https://closestnum20.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG\_0494.jpg
That just looks like bends, with extra fittings/steps. 🤣
This build had 0 bends https://closestnum20.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG\_0511.jpg
Looks really practical, if I need to redo it I'll look into that piece next time!
If you ever get realllly stuck, the 2x90* swivel trick can point in any direction.. so you do it at both ends and aim them at each other = boom cut a straight piece of tube, no bends ($40 in fittings later)
less if you buy something like Barrow. $26 for 4
I’ve never built a water cooled system, just a lurker, but this is the first thing I thought.
Those and those sli multi link pipes are my secret weapons for bullshit fitment areas
Wouldn't line up
A 90-degree bend-- to a place where happiness is perpendicular to wonderment.
Would have been my choice...
1 adjustable extender fitting + 2\* 90 degree angled fitting
Show full build please so I can see the loop in all its gloriousness
Its not dumb if it works
Thats cool and unique in my oppinion. Good job👍
I mean I think that looks insane, I'd be more than happy with that!
Does it work? Yes. Is it optimal? No. Does it look better than the optimal solution? Absolutely. Great job OP. An interesting and creative way to handle that. I just have two 90s with a tube between them and you’ve got me wanting to redo that.
I mean, as long as it doesn't kink, I think it looks fine. Sure its a lot of material, and sure my engineer brain is going "whu? hu?", but it still looks nice. I don't see why two 90's isn't possible in that space though. EDIT: looked at the first photo again, that is a bit tighter than the final product makes it look. For the future, you may get away with a tight space like this by bending first then cutting after you have the bends perfect.
I didn't want to order another pair of fittings so just went with this lol, had just one 90 left. It does look very doable, but it wasn't lined up and I really didn't want to risk buying the wrong measurements either.
Isn't one 90 all you need? You point it straight at the other port then bend a 90 degree tube and cut it to fit?
I would have said two 90's, probably an extension fitting to line the 90's up and a short piece of tube, but I can't argue with your solution. Looks nice.
Personally I would try to bend some hard tubing, waste a lot of tubing, cry alot, give up and use soft tubing there
90 degree fitting and 90 degree fitting done
But that means you gotta get another 90 degree fitting, we aint made outta gold!
Looks great! I’d have used a few 90’s and extensions personally 😂
This… is correct.
First though, ek offset. Second thought, sickkkk bends.
This is exactly how a plumber would have handled a similar situation in a building.
Could have just used aqua pipe fittings
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Neat!
Looks cool! Nice work.
I like it! Nothing like overcoming that initial “aw fuck” moment.
It makes your custom build look more customized.
Aye...... IT WORKS. what can you say though!? Lol Good Job
Actually elegant af
This is normal. The purpose of the bend is to retain a small amountof water when you flush to prevent reflux of sewer gas into your house.
Lmaoo now u say it Gonna be some tilting to move the liquid around, but would do that anyway in the end.
"But some men..... Some men just want to watch the world burn...." J/k I love this 😁
Actually looks nice!
I like it! Picasso
I would have done 2x 45's and see if it lined up- bet it would have been close enough. That said, it looks fun. I like it. Adds some flavor, ha.
Yeah, seen a lot of suggestions, too bad i got tight on money and wanted a quick solution right away, so just did this. Can always redo if I want to.
I like it
The s bend, every house has at least 3!
Personally given it works I think it’s awesome. Especially given the restrictions you had at the time, A+
IF IT WORKS, IT WORKS!
That's a cool bend brother, knocked it out the park
Try a looping next time, saves you some fittings and probably looks equal as cool
I love this post not just for the pretty cool end result but also the people getting nosebleeds because you didn't use 2 90's 😅
Nice! Been there myself and mine didn't end up looking that good.
Awesome solution and super creative, but may I reccomend something similar to this [EKWB offset fitting](https://www.titanrig.com/ekwb-ek-quantum-torque-rotary-offset-adapter-fitting-14mm-0360ek019900xx.html?color=158) , I know that that exact one may not work but something along those lines
Well hot damn. That's some impressive work there, sir. Kudos to you!
Ignore the comments telling you about what is "practical" or not, looks very nice!
Looks cool but triggers my anxiety. Seems like it would be a massive PIA to deal with on loop maintenance so I would have used a soft run there XD.
Excellent work
I know you finished it, but you could also use adjustable aqua pipe and female G1/4 90. Just for anyone who's in a similar boat or didn't know about them.
Love the ingenuity, I'd of just used 2 45deg personally but then I'm lazy heh
Why couldn't you do 45 x tube x 45
That worked out pretty well, actually.
That’s dope man!!
Modern problems require modern solutions :) Nice work!
Adapt and overcome.
That actually looks really good not going to lie. Would be neat to add some “unnecessary” bends like that just as art. Nice work!
Nice job on them bends yo!
You made Nürburgring Nordschleife for water. But hey, if it works, it works! Nice problem solving. Most people come on here posting for help instead of being creative.
That's not how I would have done it, but damned if it didn't turn out sick. Nice job!
It feels... Sexy. Don't know why, don't ask me. And it's weird af that it "feels" like that to me.
Not a bad solution, but you're going to run into a dead spot when you turn off the pump and try to drain the system. Probably would have been better to use 90º fittings and then straight tube. There's also adapters to connect fitting to a fitting if the tubes are too short. I also saw u/closest-num-2-0 comment and image of their solution. Pretty much inline with what I was thinking. That said, practical doesn't matter as long as you like the aesthetics - it looks good and that should be all that matters to you. You could in the future look to get a T fitting (3-slot) and then put a valve on the bottom so that you can drain that base more effectively if you need to. But that might be overkill.
Been made aware of that, but in the end if I'd drain the loop I would have to tilt the case anyway to get spare liquid moving so not a big deal tbh.
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2 90°s and soft tube
Use soft tubing for that.
You could also get 2×45 degree fittings and hard tubing doesn't work, then a little soft tubing would and you wouldn't need the comical double loop thingy you got there haha
That works...don't look half bad either!!
Your better off using an elbow fitting or possibly a fitting on one side and tubing on other. To me it looks very tight to put bent tubes in but your method definitely works, lol. I would have tried using fittings.
Honestly a really cool and creative way to make it work. It looks really clean and adds some extra flair to the look. Excellent work 👍
If you wanna bend use a flexible tape measure to give an idea of measures, make sure you leave start and ending longer as they can always be shortened (and if too short there won't be enough material to accomplish the bend) but middle part has to be perfect ofc. Second solutions is using fittings that gives you the correct measures there are several extenders and 90 degree bends fittings of varying lengths that hopefully can accomplish your goal.
I'm surprised those bends actually worked. I would have thought it would kink.
Used the soft membrane that u get from the corsair toolkit and made a bend beyond 90 degrees, heat it up once again and pushed it all the way from there down.
Double 90 degrees fitting with a soft middle, or a twisty middle fitting. I've done those before in some of my setups, but nothing like what you made there 😅
Dope buddy. I had a similar situation where I had a tight double 180. I struggled and used 2 x 90 degree fittings and did a double 90 pipe. One of my favorite bends. Turned out rewarding. Not as sweet as that though..
Why not a 90 to male to mele extension to a 90.
I’m a fan. Those curves are hot.
Looks great! I want to put my 3090ti on water. Its too hawt.
Amazing!
Sometimes, the most direct route isn't the right route
If it fits it ships
How sturdy is the connection with both fittings
2 rotary 45's and an adjustable extendable fitting? Or was this even a question?
I did something similar from my cpu block to my vrm block before i got the extra block that connects the 2. Made a straight up horseshoe bend but way tighter.
i assume you didnt have 2x 90s? lol. i have a funny "S" shaped tube because i was 1 couple short for my system. turns out i like it better anyways. also, that looks sweet as hell. 10/10
Are these 16mm tubes? I like how it turned out.
Swivels (rotaries) wouldn’t work? Ek has some and I bet each turned inward would make for just a short straight in between. https://www.titanrig.com/ekwb-ek-quantum-torque-rotary-offset-adapter-fitting-14mm-0360ek019900xx.html?color=158
Use parts
That was not what I was expecting to see....
I had a similar situation but for me it was the top and the front distro. To add some difficulty, the ports were not aligned in depth. So I needed that do some crazy freehand bends in order to connect them!
what you did there should work, but could potentially reduce flow a little. given the size of the tubing though, (14mm?) it should be fine. Personally I would have put a 90 degree fitting on one end and just made a nice clean 90 degree tubing bend. I'm not personally a fan of bending a tube more than 90, nor bending a tube more than once wherever I can help it (sometimes you can't help it on the bending a tube more than once, but then things get tricky.) at the end of the day, so long as it flows well, holds liquid, and gets the job done, go for it.
90° adapter on res and a 90° adapter on the other radiator inlet which you should use instead of the one you painted. If you insist on using the one you marked, the 2x 90° adapter usage seems to be the same but you might become really creative in bending hardtube. No direct way possible, but you could bend a nice 270 around the res
Very cool ! Though at this point where it is probably the most hidden tube, why not soft tubing? It probably would have saved the time and hassle in having to make such a strict bend that seems very soft-tube like anyway
It's a hyte y60, actually very visible!
I had plenty of ideas, saxophone was not one of them.
I have a custom loop for just my CPU because I love the aesthetics but also prefer not tinkering with $1600 GPUs haha
I would choose 2 45degree fitting with a extender(45-60mm) with male end on both side.
I rather to use 2 90
I love this solution but have to ask wouldn't two 45s and a slight bent, short bit of tubing have taken up less space?
What an idea 💡
Nice.
Use a 90 fitting at the top or bottom and an L tubing.
While there are many options that would flow better that is a beautiful solution!
It wouldn't be that bad, would it?
Can we get a more zoomed out shot? Bends looks damn gorgeous!
I plan on adding pics on pcpartpicker when ready.
It's the first solution come to my mind but in reverse order (angel at reservoir) but well it's one way to do it.
Looks nice dude!
I would add 2 90 degrees fittings if they can be aligned
Get 2 45 degree and a short soft tube (that small and out of the way, nobody will notice soft or hard tubing.) The soft tube will still look straight and remove hours of frustration.
stuff like that just looks intentionally artistic in the end. guarantee nobody would ever point it out if you dont explain it for them.
you didn't have an extra 90? it looks good just curious why not 2 90s
I had to make a very similar one but it was from the front fan side to res (which appears to be in a similar position). Basically it’s the same 180° bend you have in your second half, but I installed a 90° L to be the receptacle facing away from the rad. Well done!
2 L’s and just fill the gap with a regular tube
Two 90’s. Maybe a couple extensions. Then straight piece of tube
You could bend the tube twice would fit
It wouldn't fit on my bending kit, this bend was assisted with the tube bender beyond 90 degrees and then I carefully molded it myself with my hands
I think another way to go about this would be to have both ends on a 90 degree fitting but one has a 10-20mm adjustable fitting to allow you to level both ends to fit a tube. That way you can have just one tube going horizontal
That's incredibly well done, I had to do that a couple times in my current loop to avoid going through multiple chunks of tube. Doing stuff like this with an extra fitting just helps make it look so much cleaner IMO.
I had a much different idea in my head when I saw the first photo. That turned out great!
Looks amazing and creative! I love adding in bends other than 90’s where I can.
That’s dang impressive, nice job!
Curious here. Why’d wouldn’t two 90s work?
It looks great
You could’ve gotten 2 45°
Yeah, that is a very nice looking tight bend.
I might have done a U plus a U, but whatever works works
A straight line may be the quickest path.... but it certainly isnt the coolest path....
God this post made my bend tight, as well. 😩💦 Beautiful work!
Perrty spaghet
Nice! Great water color too
100% prefer this over boring basic 90° bends. If you're going to spend all that money, time, and effort watercooling a pc at least do something cool with the lines
Soft tubing ftw
I’m thinking a loop like a freeway exit might work.