New to rigid (hard tubing) but not water cooling need advice.

Let me start off by pointing to my pc specs in my signature or what's left of my pc at the moment.

This was my previous setup just a week ago but I took my rig apart to help my 14-year nephew build a new gaming pc around my Corsair 540 case. His computer is now this

AMD RYZEN 5 2600X 6-Core 3.6 GHz
ASUS ROG Strix X470-F Gaming AM4 AMD X470
Team T-Force Delta RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB)
Cooler Master RR-212S-20PC-R1 Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition
EVGA SuperNOVA G3 80 Plus Gold 1000W
EVGA 1070 Overclocker
1 TB SSD + 4 TB Seagate (games drive)
and 6 x Corsair LL Series RGB 120 fans



anyways I went and bought the Thermaltake Core P90 case mostly because it was on sale on fry's so my questions is this:
what brand of hard tubing should I stick with? for radiator I have always used XSPC radiators before but is there any other brand I should look into? I saw the Thermaltake Pacific 480mm which would fit nicely on the case. Same goes with the fittings any particular brand I should stick with?
I have about 500.00 I can spend on the radiator/tubing/fittings/reservoir, and whatever tools or kit I need to set up the hard tubing.

Thats a slick rig you built for him!

For rads i would go hardwarelabs gtx or sr2. They are as good as it gets right now. Xspc rx series rads are still solid and cheaper if budget gets tight.
Tubing and fittings- i try to stick with the same manufacturer for both to avoid any fitment issues. Right now barrow fittings and petg tubing are really solid and are far more affordable than most other high quality gear.
GL with the new build!

I'm running all Barrow fittings and ThermalTake PETG tubing. No fitment issues. Fittings are awesome.

Although I will be using barrow in a current build i would recomend primochill rigid revolver fittings, very easy to use, hard to separate from tubing. I definitely second HW labs gtx rads, simply the best. PETG tubing brand I dont think matters.