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what's up everybody Jays two sets here and I have teamed up with ek water blocks to bring you this video about their new custom loop configurator designed to take all of the guesswork out of building your first custom loop so if you want to follow along head on over to ek W be calm and click on the configurator button and let's go ahead and get started now the cool thing about this is ek has spent a lot of time building a database of chassé ease so that you can know that whether or not you have full compatibility based on your case that's the hardest part for most people who have not spent a lot of time building custom loops is making sure they're going to fit in their case so you start off here by putting in your chassis I'm going to say I've got to define let's say I've got to find s let's do that as you can see by just typing and defined s because it's a wild-card search it comes up with any result that matches the fine or s so here's our define s right there motherboard let's say I have got a gigabyte z170 what comes up with that so we've got all our model numbers here are different revisions so that's pretty important you can see anything that matched gigabyte in z170 showed up so let's say I've got a gigabyte z170 gaming k3 let's go with that one and a graphics card you need to be diligent with the part that you put in to make sure the part numbers match because for instance some folks would say oh I've got an Nvidia 1080 but maybe they really have an asus strix 1080 so if I put in Nvidia 1080 it only comes up with the actual Nvidia brand of 1080 which would be the founders Edition card which is not the same as say Strix card or an extreme card from gigabyte or further win from EVGA they are different PCBs and your block is not going to fit so you have to do some legwork here to make sure you put in the right card so if you have a Strix card type Strix 1080 and then you will see the results for the various tricks cards and then you can match the model number which they put on every single block to make sure you have compatibility it's up to you to make sure these numbers match please double check so you don't end up with a mistake now the number of RAM sticks that's because they do offer RAM cooling as well but you don't have to cool the RAM because the next page here is where you tell it what you want to cool so CPU is selected by default but you could turn that off and say I only want to build a GPU loop but we're going to do a single loop here with CPU and GPU included now when you move on to the next here it wants to know what your desired use for this system is going to be if you want silent operation do you want silent and overclocking or do you just want maximum overclocking with the maximum heat dissipation potential well I'm going to say I want silent and overclocking that way it can make a recommendation based on that and the information we've already given it tells it we've got 275 watts of heat that we have to dissipate from the system because of this number it's selected the X III 60 triple radiator to go on to the front of our case you can see it gives a little representation here of our case it's saying that we're going to front-mounted rad obviously it's going to fill out the whole front of the case that's just a little that's just a little diagram don't think the radiator is going to be that small in your case but it also anticipates a twenty seven Celsius water temp for our loop now if you want to know a little more you can click the expert mode you can see the other radiators that will fit in your system now they've selected the cool stream XE which is a sicker radiator it gives us 512 watts worth of heat that we can dissipate with that radiator so it happens if we select one that's too small ah look at that we've selected a 120 which only has 149 watts of dissipation that's telling us here we've we've turned orange because we're not exactly we're not exactly doing ourselves any favors here by having a radiator that can't handle as much heat as we're going to be sending into it as you can see our expected liquid temperature is going to increase quite a bit up to 38 C so it says right here we've selected a radiator that will sufficiently cool our hardware but the temperatures will be higher what I think it's funny a little side note what's funny though is if you deselect a radiator it says our temperature is going to be infinity well that's hot hotter than the temperature of the Sun let's because we have 0 watts of cooling power which means we are going to basically blow up our stuff we don't want that so anyway moving on I'm going to go ahead and go with their selection move on to the next step and just kind of carry all that over now we get to tell it what type of tubing we want to use so if we select soft tubing it's going to also give us some options regarding size and fittings and it's going to make sure that they are compatible and the same thing for the rigid tubing the only difference with rigid is it's also going to add to the cart a kit for both a silicone insert so that you can bend the tubing as well as they saw so you can cut the tubing down to link it's not going to include a heat gun though so you're going to have to have one of those or go pick one up at Home Depot or whatever your local hardware store is we're going to do soft tooling because I think that is the friendliest way to start getting into custom loops you spend a lot less time building it and actually enjoy it much sooner now we've got radio buttons here and we've got options over here that we can select they both do the same thing if you select the radio buttons here it kind of scrolls through the different tubing sizes and it makes sure that it applies fittings that are going to fit it as well you can also click here and see a visual representation of what those tubing sizes actually are and you can make a selection there now you can also change the color of the tubing because they do have colored tubing even for soft tubing so you can select that as well and you go with a clear I like to see the color of the two of the coolant inside speaking of come on you can even choose coolant that you can add to this kit if you want to use theirs or you can remove it in cart later if you don't want it I'm going to go with UV blue I think it looks really nice fish young on the screen right here I like bright vibrant colors now let's go with green divide it green and skunkworks and we could change the color of our fittings what if I go with let's say nickel because that's what I've got in my system right now and we can change the pump top material as well let's say so if you got black you can't see there it's a solid black kit red plexi dean plexi blue so the plexi means it's kind of translucent you can see through it I'm going to go with clear because I want to see the fluid in there and I'll leave it with a nickel plating on the bottom but you can go with bare copper or even a gold plating to they have a gold one I don't know what that's going to do to the price but I'm gonna leave it at nickel it was just pretty much how I've got skunkworks set up right here exactly like that now the cool thing is it's also going to show us what the coolant would look like flowing through the block if we have a plexi clear block so you get an idea of what it's going to look like if you go to the black acetal you can't see through it so there's representation of that and we could also go to the nickel backplate actually clear this is this is literally exactly how skunkworks is set up right now with these same blocks this coolant and the back plates and everything else so there you go now the next step here is we have to tell it what type of pump and reservoir do we want to use we want to use a combo unit which is I I highly recommend the combo units they're very easy to use especially for first-timers or you can separate it as you can see right here you means you have fittings and two that go between the reservoir and the pump I'm going to go with a pump combo because I again I think they're very friendly this is the one they recommend right here it's the extra as 100 it's got a PWM pump looks like a DSC pump it's got a very small reservoir on that I don't like that I don't like the small reservoir because I think big reservoirs make up for big cases yeah we'll go with that anyway expert mode these are the other options you could go with I'm going to go ahead and say I want to go with let me go with this guy right here I'm gonna go with the big d5 with a bigger reservoir just looks better looks more manly as we're going to go over there so we're adding that or it only gave us options for pumps that it's going to be able to fit in that case because they've already done all the legwork and determined that that's something fits so here is all the stuff that we basically put together right here you can see we've got a seven hundred and thirty four milliliter capacity or just under 3/4 of a leader when it comes to how much fluid it can be held in the system so it's only going to recommend that we have one bottle of coolant because it's less than the 1 liter that comes in the bottle we've got eight fittings required because it's two fittings per component 275 watts worth of heat we have to dissipate n 277 liter per hour flow rate so everything is good everything we got plenty of cooling capacity everything's going to fit in our case everything's going to fit together tubing and fittings are going to fit next step is to see what all the parts they recommend are and it's going to basically take all those and create a list it's got fans here they use their guard our fans we've got our block our pump our radiator we've even got check this out we need to included a jumper and a three pin splitter a three header splitter so that you can have one PWM header supplying power to all three fans and the jumper is important it's only two dollars and fifty cents don't take it out of your cart this allows you to bleed your system without having to turn on the motherboard it's a big deal leave that in there so now all you guys do now is well look at the price and cry a little bit because custom loops are not cheap but boy are they worth it and addicting once you get into it you can add all this to your cart so here's everything in our cart right here they've added fans like I showed you because obviously you need to answer your radiator but let's say you already have fans and you don't want to use the bar DARS way to just click the little X right there and you can remove it from your cart but the configurator is pretty much coming from the standpoint of you have nothing for your loop in your need everything which is good because you want to make sure that you have everything you need if you don't have fans and you're going to have a bad day trying to cool your stuff unfortunately we can see the back plate I chose is currently out of stock so we could have we could switch that for the black one and see if it's in stock but let's say we don't want the back plate at all maybe we want to save the 52 bucks and we don't want to put a back plate on the card you can simply click the X we're going to save a little bit of money there as well and since we took the fans in the back laid out you can see our kit came out way down to five hundred and ninety dollars still a little bit of a crunch to the wallet but cheaper than it was so there you go guys that's the custom loop configurator go ahead and head on over to ekw be calm play around with it put in your chassis see what you come up with and if you built your own custom loop once you go in head on over to twitter i'm at JS two cents and tweet me pictures of your custom loops i really love to check out the work that you guys are doing and believe it or not sometimes your builds turn out to be inspiration for me on various things that i do moving forward on the channel so you guys have some really good ideas and some custom stuff i would have never even thought of which is what makes this community so damn awesome there's so many people doing so many different things there's literally an infinite amount of ways that you can do this thanks for watching today's video again thanks for ek water blocks respond sory in today's video and making life easy for those people wanting to get in to water cooling thanks for watching and as always I will see you in the next video