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it's raining today in Southern California and that is a abnormal to say the least by hearing all that water trickled down put me in the mood to do a water cooling video actually where I'm talking specifically today about monsoons new eb-2 fitting performance pcs has sent me a smorgasbord of these fittings to check out and I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to go ahead and do that since all the water is falling from the sky which is rare it just puts me in the mood boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy it's Christmas can't wait but wait wait wait will you wait guys he came he came what time is it guys I got a fractal design Calvin s 36 oh no it is like way too early for this I'll get the coffee okay huh jeepers a custom built by J's to set aside a fractal design and define an OS pedal of the holidays golly a fractal design core 500 yeah guys look my party for days this is what makes it all worth this season's for the ones you love with the gift of Awesomeness happy holidays from fractal design we go and tell you guys real quickly why I'm excited to share these Eevee two fittings with you guys we live in a world where the well pretty much the entire world uses one unit of measure and the United States uses something different yes of course I'm talking about Imperial versus standard and here's the problem you've got two manufacturers out there and you've got parts coming from all over the world but the problem is you've got half inch tube and you've got sixteen millimeter tube and thirteen millimeter tube and three eighths too but the problem is if you guys know anything about measurements 3/8 and metric or whatever don't actually equate they are not the same size and depending on the manufacturing tolerances of the fittings that you choose they may not fit if you take say a 13 millimeter tube or fitting and try and made it with a half-inch tube or vice versa yeah it's not always going to fit you guys remember that's why I didn't end up using glass be skunkworks which I'm holding a 16 millimeter glass tube my hand right here but I didn't use glass specifically because as I showed it didn't fit it didn't fit in the damn fitting and I had a lot of problems there but Monsoon solved that problem and here's how now what I've got here is a little bit of a smorgasbord when it comes to fittings here because a Performa species actually sent this to me and they do have an engraving service to where they can do they can do custom engraving on these fittings like this one right here we're looking at this is actually a J's two cents engraved one they did that on their own that's kind of neat I always want to show me how some of their engraving works because he's our brass fittings though you can see they're kind of a goldish color underneath there so it looks kind of neat against especially darker colored fittings like here's a brass collar here as you can see it's sort of a zebra print there's another design here that they did so if you guys are doing a custom build and you've got a logo or something for a channel or whatever then you guys can really take this to the next level and customize here we got skull that's a skull that's cool but there are a ton of colors available now this kit also comes in two different sizes and we'll talk a little bit more about that specifically in a minute but we've got so many different color options here it's really neat uh so any themed bill that you guys are doing they've pretty much got you covered a few different white ones there yeah he's just like I'm not kidding when I said they sent me a smorgasbord of fittings my goodness they just keep coming most of these are colors actually by hey Wow okay this is fun now we're just gonna just do it I like the gold too that's kind of a neat color when do a gold build someday so we've got a black chrome here as well it's really sharp looking as you can see compared to silver here or nickel this is what the black one looks like now installation this is pretty damn simple so you've got this little card that it comes with right here and as you can see it says insert tube into slot obviously we're referring to our water cooling tube guys keep it clean the reason why you do this is you want to see if the tube touches the red area or the white area right there on the card so if I insert my 16 millimeter glass tube right here I can see that it touches the red area only and does not overlap into the white area the reason why that matters is they send two different sized o rings while overing kits that go with these fittings the red and the white so since it only touches the red I'll use the red bag and the reason for that is they are two different sizes now these fittings here actually cover a range there's two sets are just two sizes you can buy from monsoon the smaller size covers eleven point eight to thirteen point two millimeters so as you can see that doesn't matter if you've got an imperial tube or a standard tube a twelve millimeter a thirteen millimeter tube or half inch outer diameter tube you'll have to worry about them not fitting inside the fitting the bigger size which I have right here actually covers 15 point two to sixteen point two millimeter because we're now starting to see bigger rigid tubing being used in builds copper tubes this is a 16 millimeter glass tube that I'm using for the sake of demonstration here but you could use this for copper tubing metal tubing anything that's rigid that is within that size range is going to fit in these fittings that's what I think is really cool is it kind of solves the issue of oh crap I've got standard fittings and Imperial tube yeah you don't worry about that anymore since I have a tube that fits in the red I'm going to be using the red here now inside the back here you've got these little tapered collars you've got more than you we need to give you a few extras which is kind of neat that way it's not like you have six fittings in here and you get six of these you lose one you're screwed nope there's extra probably cost them only a couple pennies to put together these kits at cost so who knows but anyway it's got a tapered side right there you want to be noted mindful of that we'll talk about that in a second and you're going to use two o-rings per fitting the reason why is our two grooves inside of the fitting right here that you're going to be putting the o-rings in so that your tube has something to seal against they're actually pretty easy to install they they sort of want to work their way in the groove all on their own you don't have to really finagle them too much they kind of do their own thing anyway so I just got that one it's stuck there we go so that one's in there now it's in the first groove so then we'll go ahead and take this o-ring and it will work its way into the second groove so then you end up with something just like that so the next thing I'm going to do is you're going to take now ideally this fitting would already be installed on whatever it is you're going to be you know putting it on a water block graphics card pump whatever you're not gonna be doing this freely in the air like I am but for the sake of demonstration so next you're gonna do is you're going to take your tube but just sort of give it a gentle twist as you insert it ladies did I have to do that yes absolutely I absolutely had to say that so that's locked in and seated all the way at the bottom of the compression fitting right there and then we're going to take this tapered collar which I showed you earlier and with the taper facing the fitting so facing down we're going to slide it over the tube down to the fitting like that then we take our compression collar slide it down and then we can tighten that down so like I said if it was on a water block or whatever would be tighten it like that and then if you want to get a really good if you wanna get nice and snug they also include this tool and then these grooves on here that you can use to tighten as well but I I don't recommend going too tight one you don't want to crush the tube and two you don't want to Mar up your pretty anodized fitting and then last but not least because you don't want to get a leak at the bottom of your fitting this is this should actually be done first with whatever you're stalling it on you take one of the small thick o rings and then you put it over the bottom of the fitting like that there's a groove that it fits in and that is so that the fitting then seal against whatever it is you've installed it on so there you go you guys can see there's a compression fitting that now in club covers both Imperial and standard sizes and now you're not left thinking to yourself aw crap I got the wrong sizes but you might be left with yourself going well that's a handsome fitting right there like I said this isn't a J's $0.02 edition fittings or anything like that this is just something that they did to show that custom builds have custom options if you go in order that through performance pcs so this is actually the first Monsoon fitting I've taken a look at in about four years the last time I used any monsoon fittings was for soft tubing there's a very similar design to this actually for soft tubing and it was on a really high-end custom client bill but I had done I'm really impressed with these fittings and I think because of the especially the options for the custom engraving like this and with the whole Old Spice name bill coming up for Terry Crews and the color options available I think we might have actually found our our fittings anyway I know I'll think about it but these might end up being the fittings I decide to use on the Terry Crews build but anyway thanks for watching today guys let me know what you guys think about these fittings the dual or in construction as well as that locking our tapered collar it's very very unlikely that you would develop a leak with these fittings now that nothing is a hundred-percent leak proof but the concept of getting a leak with these fittings is a tough one because there it's got like I said double insulation on the o-rings and it's they fit so snug and because the fit is custom with the fitment of the o-rings you don't have to worry about trying to jam a tube that's a little bit too thick for the hole and worry about cutting or damaging the o-ring by just trying to get into place which is usually where leaks will occur sometimes cutting the o-ring inserting the tube into the fitting anyway guys thanks for watching hope you guys enjoyed today's video hope you've learned something here a little bit smarter now when it comes to water cooling and you definitely go and check out the EB 2 months in fittings price wise - they're very comparable to the other fittings on the market but they give you options and custom fitment alright I'm yeah Murray now time to go guys thanks for watching I'll see you next one