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so you've outfitted your rig with the highest end components your bank account

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can handle and you're pushing out more frames than an art gallery but it looks

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like your system could use a little bit more pop and that's when it hits you a

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custom water cooling Loop is exactly what you're missing but what do you

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actually need well first up is tubing

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it's not going to work very well without that pretty much any kind of tubing will

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work 3/8 in and 1/2 in inner diameter

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tubing are the most common but don't go to the local Home Depot and buy the

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cheap clear vinyl stuff that's on the Shelf it will Kink when you make tight

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bends in between components and can stiffen and change color over time which

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looks groy and can actually make leaks more likely to develop at the fittings

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the metal that is to say if you're smart adapters between the usually G1 qu

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threads on your components and your tubing not to mention that PC water

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cooling tubing has more Pizzazz and some

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even has antimicrobial properties though

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if you really want your build to pop Hardline tubing is also available in

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acrylic and the preferred petg flavors

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for a super clean and Slick look just be

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prepared to spend more money on like tools and stuff and to deal with having

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to bend and measure your runs super

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accurately oh and you won't be using standard barbs either because line

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tubing requires its own special type of compression fittings so that's a lot of

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guidance about tubing but what about all the other stuff the pump moves liquid

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through the system and the spec that many newcomers get hung up on is the

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flow rate the conventional wisdom suggests you'll want a flow rate of at

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least one gallon per minute to decrease turbulence in the water but as you add

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components to the loop it's actually the head pressure rating that makes the

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bigger difference bottom line from my

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experience anything but a lang D5 or some variant thereof is a compromise on

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to blocks these sit on hot components

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transferring heat to the cooling fluid you'll find an incredible variety out

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there some are made of aluminum because it's cheap and easy to work with avoid

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those because mixing incompatible Metals in a loop can cause nasty corrosion over

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time even with anti-corrosion additives

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and most quality components are made of copper thanks to its better conductive

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properties which doesn't necessarily mean though that you're stuck with that

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copper color nickel silver and gold

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plating have all been done with mostly good results and they look great through

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a see-through plexy toop so you can gawk at your coolant flowing through the

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block now though you can get water blocks for hard drives ssds RAM and your

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motherboard someone actually made a power supply block at one point if I

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recall correctly these are really only for show or for an extremely silent

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build where there will be next to no airf flow to cool those components

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otherwise the main heavy lifters are the CPU and the GPU blocks for the CPU

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honestly it's pretty straight forward these days a socket compatible option

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from any of these companies will pretty much do the trick but video cards are a

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little tougher don't just buy a GTX 1080

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block expecting it to work on every 1080

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that's out there the vast majority of video card blocks these days cover the

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GPU the surrounding RAM and even the vrm

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whose layout can differ dramatically from one manufacturer to the next

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reference or Founders edition cards are

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typically the easiest to find blocks for but there are some exceptions the

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reservoir is the fill point of the system and it also holds extra fluid to

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combat natural evaporation over time time Reservoir options are sometimes an

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aesthetic Choice 5 and 1/4 in Bay reservoirs used to be in Vogue but tube

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reses are very popular these days and other times a purely practical decision

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Swift xmc res micro doesn't look like anything special but was about the only

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thing that would fit in some of the systems that I've built just make sure

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you put it immediately before the pump in the loop and don't try to use a tiny

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Reservoir with a super strong pump that stirs up air and puts it back into the

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loop making it noisy if you don't feel like playing Labyrinth with your

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computer to get air bubbles out of your blocks finally the radiator or radiators

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these along with some attached fans transfer the heat from the fluid to the

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surrounding air the larger the better though you'll want to make sure that you

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mount static pressure optimized fans that can move air efficiently through

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the tight cooling fins and you can learn more about static pressure fan

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in this video this is especially important if you're getting radiators

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with high fin density so 20 or more fins

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per inch more fins means greater cooling

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potential but it also means more turbulence and that you'll need a fan

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that can force enough air through them so more noise you can learn more about

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radiators here which leads us then to

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the bottom line is any of this really worth it well CPU performance isn't to

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change much but gpus can drop an excess

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of 20° and a custom Loop is a more

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elegant way of adding multiple components to a water cooling system

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