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so you've outfitted your rig with the highest-end components your bank account can handle and you're pushing out more frames than an art gallery but it looks like your system could use a little bit more pop and that's when it hits you a custom water cooling loop is exactly what you're missing but what do you actually need well first up is tubing it's not going to work very well without that pretty much any kind of tubing will work 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch inner diameter tubing are the most common but don't go to the local Home Depot and buy the cheap clear vinyl stuff that's on the shelf it will kink when you make tight bends in between components and can stiffen and change color over time which looks grody and can actually make leaks more likely to develop at the fittings the metal is to say if you're smart adapters between the usually G 1/4 threads on your components and your tubing not to mention that PC water cooling tubing has more pizazz and some even has antimicrobial properties though if you really want your build to pop the hard line tubing is also available in acrylic and the preferred PE TG flavors for a super clean and slick look just be prepared to spend more money on like tools and stuff and to deal with having to bend and measure your runs super accurately oh and you won't be using standard Barb's either because hard line tubing requires its own special type of compression fittings so that's a lot of guidance about tubing but what about all the other stuff the pump moves liquid through the system and the spec that many newcomers get hung up on is the flow rate the conventional wisdom suggests you'll want a flow rate of at least one gallon per minute to decrease turbulence in the water but as you add components to the loop it's actually the head pressure rating that makes the bigger difference bottom line from my experience anything but a Lang D 5 or some variant thereof is a compromise on two blocks these sit on hot components transferring heat to the cooling fluid you'll find an incredible variety out there some are made of aluminum because it's cheap and easy to work with avoid those because mixing incompatible metals in the loop can cause nasty corrosion over time even with anti-corrosion additives and most quality components are made of copper thanks to its better conductive properties which doesn't necessarily mean though that you're stuck with that copper color nickel silver and gold plating have all been done with mostly good results and they look great through a see-through plexi top so you can gawk at your coolant flowing through the block now though you can get water blocks for hard drives SSDs ran and your motherboard someone actually made a power supply block at one point if I recall correctly these are really only for show or for an extremely silent build where there will be next to no airflow to cool those components otherwise the main heavy lifters are the CPU and the GPU blocks for the CPU honestly it's pretty straightforward these days a socket compatible option for many of these companies will pretty much do the trick but video cards are a little tougher don't just buy a GTX 1080 block expecting it to work on every 1080 that's out there the vast majority of video card blocks these days cover the GPU the surrounding Ram and even the vrm whose layout can differ dramatically from one manufacturer to the next reference or founders Edition cards are typically the easiest to find blocks for but there are some exceptions the reservoir is the fill point of the system and it also holds extra fluid to combat natural evaporation over time reservoir options are sometimes an aesthetic choice five and a quarter inch bay reservoirs used to be in vogue but two dresses are very popular these days and other times a purely practical decision swift xmc res micro doesn't look like anything special but was about the only thing that would fit in some of the systems that I've built just make sure you put it immediately before the pump in the loop and don't try to use a reservoir with a super-strong pump that stirs up air and puts it back into the loop making it nosy if you don't feel like playing labyrinth with your computer to get air bubbles out of your blocks finally the radiator or radiators these along with some attached fans transfer the heat from the fluid to the surrounding air the larger the better though you'll want to make sure that you mount static pressure optimized fans that can move air efficiently through the tight cooling fins and you can learn more about static pressure fans in this video this is especially important if you're getting radiators with high fin density so 20 or more fins per inch more fins means greater cooling potential but it also means more turbulence and that you'll need a fan that can force enough air through them some more noise you can learn more about radiators here which leads us then to the bottom line is any of this really worth it well CPU 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