Custom WC Paint Jobs

[jcichetti]

Yeah, these are the custom WC rig's I built in Microsoft Paint. Whoops -- sorry for the misleading title. Anyways, really wanted to have a simple diagram going into what I am planning to build and would like people to take a look at this setup. I have a few questions left burning in my brain and obviously you are the experts. Here we go:

 

#1. Is it necessary to mount the pump above the PSU level so to not restrict the flow of the tubing? (Look at the difference between rig 1 and rig 2)

 

#2. How many feet of tubing can I anticipate for this project?

 

#3. How many barbs or Smooth band bolt hose/Lined worm drive clamps should I anticipate buying? Are there any cost effective suggestions for these?

 

#4. Is this the right setup? Or should I have the tubes flowing from the Radiator-->GPU-->CPU to have less tubing overlaps and thus a shorter path for the liquid before it goes to cool again.

 

Please excuse these images as they are not drawn to scale or good for any matter.

 

 

 

Thank you for all of your suggestions. See below for parts used if interested.

 

Here are my component specs.

 

Main Components: $1500 + Cooling Components: $700 = $2200 Total Rig Cost

 

CPU Waterblock: $85

HEATKILLER

[GabrielT]

First off welcome to the club!

Secondly it's good to see some work done in paint

Thirdly, it looks pretty good to me except I notice no place for an optical drive.

I am also no expert on this sort of thing so may I suggest this.

It's a hole thread dedicated to WC and stuff so good luck.

[hardnrg]

With the radiator oriented that way (barbs down) it will be extremely hard to purge the air unless you have a bleeding screw (e.g. Thermochill PA120.3)

 

The Pump->Block / Pump->Rad->Block is debatable... but for your layout I'd have it like:

 

Pump -> CPU -> GPU -> Radiator (barbs at top) -> Reservoir -> (Pump)

[GabrielT]

Listen to nrg, just do it.

[jcichetti]

With the radiator oriented that way (barbs down) it will be extremely hard to purge the air unless you have a bleeding screw (e.g. Thermochill PA120.3)

 

That is the Radiator I have listed

 

Pump -> CPU -> GPU -> Radiator (barbs at top) -> Reservoir -> (Pump)

 

I thought you would want the loop to hit the Radiator first so that would enable the CPU/GPU to get the cooler fluids. Let me know what you think

[jcichetti]

Thirdly, it looks pretty good to me except I notice no place for an optical drive.

 

Whoops -- scratch hd 2 for optical drive. good spot

[hardnrg]

That is the Radiator I have listed

Sorry, I skimmed over your post and must have missed where you said you've actually bought the exact parts

 

I thought you would want the loop to hit the Radiator first so that would enable the CPU/GPU to get the cooler fluids. Let me know what you think

The pump after the radiator would add something like 0.1