Before Liquid Cooling Your Gaming PC - Tips & Tricks

my mainbord doesnt have a 2 pin connector for any sensors

Very nice tips!

is it just me or does zmt soft tubing look way better than acrylic

hmmmmm, great video to water cool my GT 710

Opaque fluids require you to teardown your block and scrub all the opaque crap that fell out of solution every 12 months. Not worth the effort.

I know well and good that loop order makes no difference, but I still go pump/block/rad/block/rad/pump, it is silly I know, just habit. I'll also use soft tubing where it can't be seen, just because of ease. =) I love the pressure tester as well!!

Appreciate the good lighting, camera work, audio quality and overall production value. A pleasure to watch great content go hand in hand with quality production. ❤

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I use cryofuel exclusively too. However I used the solid blue and over time the solid component broke from solution and clogged the blocks. Took ages to clean out would never use solid coolant again, whereas normal colored cryofuel has never given any problems at all apart from some slight staining of blocks after prolonged use ( nothing that cant be fixed :) )

camera work is so good i couldn't focus on the video

I did soft tubing but only did straight runs and used fittings for angles.
Nzxt h7 flow
2x 360mm rad
Ek Velocity on 11900k
3080 Aorus Xtreme WB

Want a cheap and good solution? Destilled water and a couple of ml G12/G12+ antifreeze. No algea, no growth. antifreeze will also protect against corrosion. This small amount will NEVER impact your petg tubing. Add some small amount of dish soap to clean your tubing from inside.

broooo thanks for this

I have this full tower corsair, ultimate PC, ordered Bykski wc for the 3090, am thinking of putting the radiator outside and I know nothing about WCs. I dont use/like rgb. Any advices about doing it? Or it is better if I put it inside? (I use 14 fans/Noctua inside).

EKWB has announced that they will also be releasing some thing similar to the barrow pump block you showed

what coolant is that cloudy blue you have?

anyone know how mush does a pump last in 24/7 work?

what is this alphacool dclt pump you speak of and by any chance would you have an exact model and or link to it i feel this would be the only solution to my current situation

What fittings do you recommend for quick disconnects?

I'm curious though how far stretches the compatibility of gpu waterblocks. Like I have 980Ti so it's impossible to buy a waterblock for it (unless second hand), unless they don't include it's name in supported graphics just because of "If you are watercooling your pc now, you definitely have newest hardware" logic.

Some great tips here, thanks! Where is that purple pearlescent solid cooling solution from? I love how you can see the flow as the pump is working away... and it doesn't seem to be on EK's site.

So there’s no such fitting that allows you to couple soft tubing to hard tubing?
I have a general idea of what I want for my first custom loop build. It’s not small form factor and the premise of what I want is “hidden tubing”. So something like hard tubing bent and routed right behind the motherboard in the straightest/cleanest way (so two bends/couples). Then once the tubing is behind the mother board be able to switch to soft tubing as it won’t ever be seen and is easier to work with (from what I’m told)…. Although the case I want to try this in is the Lian Li Lancool 2 Mesh, which if you aren’t familiar has tempered glass on both sides so maybe it would be cool to show off some tubing on that side as well. I know what a lot of you are thinking but I’m pretty handy with working with my hands and power tools so I’m not afraid to put some holes in the motherboard tray to route tubing or even modifying the front radiator bracket to accept a 420mm radiator.
I just want the loop to be pretty minimal and clean… I k is there will could be lots of space left in the case when I’m done but I just want a clean looking MOBO with pretty much just the block standing out… I’m also not sure if I would include both the cpu and gpu, just the cpu, or even just the gpu for the loop. System is currently a 5800x being cooled by a Artic 280 AIO, with a MSI Gaming Trio 2080Ti (not liquid cooled).
If I start with just the CPU I guess I can always modify the loop for a future GPU (don’t feel like growing through the trouble for the 2080Ti as I’ll probably replace it in the next year or two).
Or just wait until I’m ready to build something all new I guess, that would probably be the smartest thing to do lol.
I just like building and tinkering with shit to much whether it’s PC’s, guns (AR’s and custom Pistols), or even crap in my woods hop lol. Hell this PC I’m talking about has gone through 2-3 evolutions in this same case/mobo combo.
Well sorry it took you 10 minutes to read all this mumbling but aren’t you kinda glad you did!?!?

it has been nearly a year and i am still praying one day Ali will make a How to Build video based off of the Dual-Rad Setup he has in his N Case M1

Ali if you see this, please consider doing a complete breakdown/rebuild of your Dual-Rad N Case M1 pleasepleaseplease

Misleading title.... should say something like helpful hardware for installing water coolant

If I were to custom water cool, I would buy Swagelok metric fittings. Their selection is much wider for English units over metric, but they have 12 and 16 mm fittings that should work. Using them properly requires some experience. And if Swagelok makes metric ferrules out of polymer or graphite (I didn’t find any in a quick search), one could go all glass! [ok, that would be a LOT of work]

what my mind is running is how to external water cool your pc and how to power the pump and fans
alphacool 1260mm radiator.

How often should i clean the loop a year or change the liquid?

i was bit lost with the in out ports . My waterblock has no such indication arrows or otherwise. And both sideds look pretty well the same so there really isnt any sure way to tell. Never seen them kind of fittings anywhere.

What about rads? Which one are better? I found and order from ali EK classic PE 240x45x120mm, with weight 980/860 gramms. And I start to think when I should do first maintenance, coz rad is copper, fittings are barrow and seems to be they are made from brass. Brass is Cu+Zn if I understand correctly. Also which materials was pump made of? Alu, steinless steal?

I wish Mayhems Pastel Pink was still around, I really want to theme my build around Hyper Light Drifter

I am planning to build a liquid cooling PC. I got the EVGA 3080ti RTX, but I have seen some sample of your video on ITX case for water cooling PC but It seems like the RTX Nvidia is more possible for my condition right now. I have no idea how to build like one of your sample with the EVGA 3080TI

That video should be rated 18

Tips: use the right Silicone spray on the rubber tubing, super easy to glide and it gives longer life to, they don't dry up,

The reason why you need the water on the zmt is their shitty tolerances. Can be almost 17mm on some sections.

Yup I'll stick to fans running balls out so I never worry. On the floor under my desk so noisy fans aren't a concern

If youre using that ek air pressure tester... do NOT pump it up as high as he has it. These loops aren't meant to go that high and you can damage something. I know the gauge has a green section making you think that's where you pump it to. It's not, please read the manual and save your parts!

Still don't understand why this video din't get many views, there aren't alot of videos out there with this much detailed information about ITX watercooling

the alphacool pumps with acrylic closing knobs can crack with heat/cooling - causing the liquid to run out all over the case... tried that twice now. recommend replacing them with brass ones.

that nzxt h510 elite build ^^

What's the block you have on the back of your case?

can you make a video of assembly all this together plz???? great video btw

I will never cool my pc with any liquid! Because I know me 😉

Good thing to save your money - ek fittings sometimes have 100% sale lol. I guess it was mistake on webpage but they actually arrived to people

I cannot stand hearing Australians pronouncing Z as "zee"

Was here

While assembling all the hardware, and planning my first open loop, I've watched or read at least 50 in-depth water cooling tutorials, and 4 minutes in this is already the most useful.

Once you understand the basics, the details become critical, and your fittings discussion - especially your extenders mention (and the subsequent shot of their use on a radiator port) provides useful detail I haven't previously come across. A broader discussion of angled adaptors and T-fittings would have been even more appreciated, but that's mostly due to the fact that I'm currently trying to plan my fill/drain ports.

Your channel is obviously very professional, and the information presented is incredibly valuable.

Most if not all EK gpu waterblocks state in the manual that "You can use any opening as an inlet/outlet port." So flow direction i those doesn't matter.