4x 1080Ti Sea Hawk setup:
And why not throw in a Zotac for good measure:
Alright, I'll bite. What exactly do you use that for? Eth mining?
I have the same case, but for me it's purely decorative.
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4x 1080Ti Sea Hawk setup:
And why not throw in a Zotac for good measure:
Super short video I took while I was filling and bleeding my loop after swapping to clear tubing and the new UV Violet Vue coolant. This stuff looks amazing and I think I'm going to be ordering the gray coolant to replace this when I go rigid tubing later on. I had my pump running too fast to see it well in the tubing AND my phone doesn't pick it up well but it looks amazing with the D5 running more slowly.
After waiting impatiently, it's time to drain the system and install Vue. A few hiccups due to my part of being finicky but it's done for now.
Looks good! Should have used "Raining Blood" instead of that weird loop music lol
That's a lot of rad- are they all push/intake?
Glad I’m not the only one that still likes ek stuff.Here we go.
It's 1/4" thick? o_oNope, it's not kinked or crushed at all, it's a clean bend. The angle just sucks and makes it look bad with the way the light plays on it. That tubing is 5/8 OD 3/8 ID and thick as hell to boot.
It's 1/4" thick? o_o
Impressive.
Just finishing up my new build. Specs in sig.
soft tubing isn't hip anymore but its still beautiful to me when done with care.
Yes... soft tubing done right is still very cool looking.
I keep wanting to do a rigid build and then each time it comes down to buying the shit I think about how much fun it will be to change or test ANYTHING with the hardware and I go back to soft tubing. I don't want to have to drain my loop every time I make a craigslist deal and need to test a card or cpu or some shit and the computer handy is the rigid tubed one. My 1080 Ti FTW3 has been held out of the way many times just to slide in another card for testing and you just don't have that flexibility with rigid... pun intended.Indeed. I hope y'all thought my soft tubing was done well.
I would love to go rigid but I was trying to keep the costs down by using many of my old rig's fittings. I totaled up the expenses and it is a minimum of $200 just to get started with PETG (including fittings, heat gun, tools) not counting bending mistakes (which I'm sure I would've made a lot of as I'm often not very patient). I wasn't ready to tackle that just yet so I went with the Primochill Advanced LRT that I already had good experiences with. I use Bitspower fittings but I might replace them all next year and do rigid in this build here.
I keep wanting to do a rigid build and then each time it comes down to buying the shit I think about how much fun it will be to change or test ANYTHING with the hardware and I go back to soft tubing. I don't want to have to drain my loop every time I make a craigslist deal and need to test a card or cpu or some shit and the computer handy is the rigid tubed one. My 1080 Ti FTW3 has been held out of the way many times just to slide in another card for testing and you just don't have that flexibility with rigid... pun intended.
It is a pain, but you can mitigate it. I keep a bit of soft tubing and barb fittings on hand for temporary changes. Personally, I consider draining the loop to be a necessity regardless of type, unless you've got QDCs in use - I don't trust myself enough to make tubing changes with significant amounts of cooling on the system. XDI keep wanting to do a rigid build and then each time it comes down to buying the shit I think about how much fun it will be to change or test ANYTHING with the hardware and I go back to soft tubing. I don't want to have to drain my loop every time I make a craigslist deal and need to test a card or cpu or some shit and the computer handy is the rigid tubed one. My 1080 Ti FTW3 has been held out of the way many times just to slide in another card for testing and you just don't have that flexibility with rigid... pun intended.
Nah, I have picked entire computers up by the tubing before... not anything I was worried about surviving at the time but really if you do it right and your fittings and tubing are tight you can do disgusting things with it and the system will not care. Probably a bad habit to get into but I've been doing stupid shit like that for 15 years now.It is a pain, but you can mitigate it. I keep a bit of soft tubing and barb fittings on hand for temporary changes. Personally, I consider draining the loop to be a necessity regardless of type, unless you've got QDCs in use - I don't trust myself enough to make tubing changes with significant amounts of cooling on the system. XD
NB-eLoops with Phanteks Halos. =)Very nice rig, what are thooose fans?
I used to bend my PETG, but since trying some 90° fittings by necessity with my stainless lines, I decided they're the way to go - I was never satisfied with my bends anyway. =)
The cutter, bending cord and other stuff is a pittance compared to fittings. I've done both and it's really tough to make the "economy" case for going the fittings route. It's just so much easier. Changing a tubing run take minutes instead of an hour, bending, scrapping and rebending... again though, I just never got that good at it. XDI think I would be the same. You can use a bunch of 90° fittings, and while that drives up your initial cost of not only the those fittings but additional compression fittings as well, you save the cost of the bending mandrels since you only need a pipe cutter, chamfer tool, and insert, not to mention the time saved withi making the bends.