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we've done a lot of liquid cooling over the years ranging from super jank diy to

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aios to all the way up to subzero

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chiller units but there are still some things that

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we've never messed with until now

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going full hard mode with copper

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rather than plastic tubing it's a lot of work and the learning

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curve looks a little something like this but boy oh boy is the end result ever

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shiny Corsair's vengeance RGB pro series

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overclocked memory utilizes dynamic multi-zone RGB lighting to light up your

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rig check it out at the link below

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so the first question is why

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why would we do something like this i mean it's good to try new things but

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aside from that is there any reason to

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use metal tubing copper or otherwise

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truthfully other than looks no

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so if you're only worried about cooling performance it's probably best to stay

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with inexpensive soft plastic tubing because as i demonstrated during

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scrapyard wars 2 even a massive coil of

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copper tubing doesn't dissipate much heat so

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the relatively small runs in your case won't make a measurable difference

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so then with that out of the way let's get started the case dictates a lot of

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the other components that you might choose for a build like this so that

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came first we chose the refreshed lialee

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pc011 dubbed the dynamic for its

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all-white interior tempered glass side and front panels and its spacious trunk

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which makes it perfect for hiding tubing and cables next up is the actual gaming

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bits for once here we're actually going to take a step back from insanity and

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just build a respectable color coordinated high-end gaming machine that

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is without an extreme edition CPU and titan graphics card so we opted for

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Intel's 8700k one of the best processors for gaming made it to an ASUS z370a

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prime the whitest board in their lineup for this chip RAM then was an easy pick

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as the best looking light RAM on the market imo is Corsair's vengeance RGB in

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white of course for our graphics card we would have loved to use the latest gtx

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rtx excuse me rtx 2080 ti

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but water blocks weren't quite available yet when we started this build so we

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went with the next best thing a 1080 ti which is still a very powerful card and

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significantly more affordable which meh if you told me a year ago i'd be calling

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a 1080 ti more affordable

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anywho for storage we opted for a 512

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gig samsung 960 pro as our boot drive with a couple of iron wolf pros and the

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pc-011's rear butt flap for storage

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which brings us to water cooling where things get a little more unusual

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now one of the manufacturers that we featured in our cheap aliexpress water

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cooling video barrow actually makes some really cool case

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specific water distribution slash

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reservoir blocks and they happened to have one for the pco11

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so that one was an easy buy then for the rest of the system we

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requisitioned a bunch of goodies from our friends over at ek going for mostly

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their standard affair stuff including their previous flagship supremacy evo

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CPU block a full cover 1080ti GPU block

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a couple of their slim 360 millimeter radiators and then a metric boatload of

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fittings now sadly while we were able to use

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their straight 16 millimeter hard-line fittings these are the same ones that

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you need for plastic tubing by the way they still don't have 90 degree fittings

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so we needed to paint our own with everything dry fitted the next step was

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sanding the fittings and radiators with a sanding block for optimal paint

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adhesion oh and before you guys head to the comments below yes we masked off the

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radiator fins an extra layer of paint isn't going to destroy your rad but it's

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not ideal for thermals either now let's get back to the star of the show the

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copper tubing there are actually

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way more different types of copper tubing and pipe than i expected be it

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coiled straight soft hard or whatever

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combination of the four of them but you actually don't need to worry

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about any of that because we already went out and spent the money to figure

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out which one's best so that you don't have to initially we thought that coiled tubing

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would be our best bet this kind of copper is pre-annealed

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which means that in the factory the pipe was heated up red hot then cooled to

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soften the metal now for materials like steel if you

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quench the metal after heating it actually hardens it making it great for

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use in tools for example but with copper

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heating then immediately cooling it actually softens it making it perfect

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for bending or so we thought in practice even with a

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fancy patented straightening tool like this one from eastwood the tube never

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ends up all that straight and it's got little bumps and blemishes all over it

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so coiled tubing wouldn't work for the clean aesthetic

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that we wanted a better choice ended up being straight

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hard half inch diameter copper pipe which it's called half inch but it

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actually has a 5 8 inch outer diameter

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one really important note here though is that you'll want to use the slightly

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more expensive type k pipe its walls are

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a little bit thicker which makes it easier and cleaner to bend

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from here the process is actually pretty similar to regular hard-line tubing each

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run starts with roughly estimating the length of the run with a little bit of

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extra on each end and cutting the pipe with our pipe cutter the one that you're

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looking at now by the way will run from our CPU block to the barrow distribution

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block then because we do still need to anneal the copper before we can bend it

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our tube needs to be heated up for a minute or two we used a matte gas torch

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now it's really important here for the part that you intend to bend to get

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visibly hot and it should be noted that it actually

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doesn't have to all be that same hot color at the same time so once you see

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it starting to get red you can begin to work your way around

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once you're done you can quench the pipe in a bucket of water and then freak out

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a little over the gross discoloration that you'll be spending the next few

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hours dealing with with a piece of sandpaper and some polish now we didn't

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do it this way hindsight is 20 20 as they say but we'd recommend that you do

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the bulk of your sanding before you bend the pipes because it is a lot easier to

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sand and polish a straight pipe than a bent one

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as they say anywho now it's bending time

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since these are just single 90 degree bends thanks to our

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fancy pants distribution block we don't really need to mark out our bend and we

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can just kind of go for it i'd recommend for a bender that you get something with

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a fairly large radius like this one that we got on ebay for 50 bucks

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smaller radius benders can you know give you a tighter bend obviously but they

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can also cause some pretty severe crushing creating flat spots on your

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bends that will be very noticeable especially if you go for a smooth

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polished look on your pipes we ended up initially filling our pipes with sand to

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help them retain their shape during the bend but it turned out later that this

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wasn't necessary for us though if you're having issues it might be worth a try

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the process was honestly pretty rinse and repeat from here so

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um i guess let's watch a fancy time lapse then of Jake bending and fitting the

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pipes

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one more pro tip here by the way if you already sanded your pipes and you want

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to keep them as scratch free as possible we'd recommend putting some grease on

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the mating surfaces of the bender at this point all the painted parts were

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dry and we could get into installation of the finished parts

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first was our CPU block with a white painted hold down plate and RGB shroud

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then we installed our GPU back plate our nicely painted white radiators and the

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custom 3d printed pump top for our ddc pump we actually didn't have the

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appropriate o-ring for mounting to the distribution block so this was fun we

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ended up making use of some high-temp silicone which worked surprisingly well

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wow looking good all done right no

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because we were dumb and didn't pre-sand it it all has to come out again for

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sanding and then polishing and i won't bore you with every detail but the basic

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process for us involved sanding each pipe with a fairly rough 400 grit

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sandpaper then polishing with some brasso this gave us a pleasing brushed

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finish that we really liked because the high shine polish style tubing didn't

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really fit the look we were going for or the time frame that we were going for

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for this build by the way we'd recommend sealing the tubes with something like

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brass lacquer when you're done as the polish doesn't do much for preventing

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tarnish now for final assembly we mounted our tubes again ran our sexy

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cablemod pro cable kit made it to our supremely reasonable rm750x power supply

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and hoped for the best pga lights on now that's good yeah

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there we go once the RAM issues were resolved it

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actually did end up working and the fill went pretty smooth with only one small

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leak Jake forgot to put the o-ring back on one of the CPU fittings bringing us

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and that's how you water cool with copper pipe we're probably never going

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