Add Watercooling to PC Guide - Step by Step
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Watercool for under $350 ALL PARTS CPU GPU block Pump Reservoir Radiator Fans Fitting Tubing Coolant
00:01 Intro
01:10 Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N RTX 3080 Aorus Master/Xtreme with Backplate
03:05 Alphacool Eisblock Aurora XP3 Light CPU Water Block, Plexi
05:11 Barrow D5 PWM Pump 18W Combo + Reservoir 230mm Coolant Tank + Radiator Adapter
06:53 Barrow ID10mm + OD13mm Compression Fittings
08:03 Barrow Radiator 360mm (40mm thickness)
08:42 Arctic P12 (5 Pack) 120 mm Fans
09:02 Watercool Heatkiller EPDM 13/10mm Black
10:55 Distilled Water +PrimoChill Liquid Utopia
11:17 Testing & Benchmarks
11:49 [Chart] CPU Core & GPU Core/Memory
12:15 [Chart] GPU Power, Core/Memory Temperatures & FPS
12:46 Outro
Parts || $345 Total - No commission on links
$41.00 || Alphacool Eisblock Aurora XP3 Light CPU Water Block, Plexi || shorturl.at/mIST7
$96.00 || Alphacool 11952 Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N RTX 3080/3090 Aorus Master/Xtreme with Backplate || shorturl.at/yCFP6
$90.00 || Barrow D5 PWM Pump 18W Combo + Reservoir 230mm Coolant Tank + Radiator Adapter || rb.gy/fe85p7 || rb.gy/b29j25
$12.00 || Barrow ID10mm + OD13mm Compression Fittings x8 || rb.gy/lbua1i
$53.00 || Barrow Radiator 360mm Copper (1.57inch/40mm thickness) || rb.gy/fa48z0
$30.00 || Arctic P12 PWM PST (5 Pack) - 120 mm Case Fan Black || shorturl.at/vyDR7
$05.00 || Watercool Heatkiller EPDM (ID 3/8" - 1/2" OD) 13/10mm Black || shop.watercool.de/HEATKILLER-...
$18.00 || Distilled Water 16.9 fl.oz. + PrimoChill Liquid Utopia 15ml || shorturl.at/iszB1
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What a great video. Shows that watercooling doesn't need to cost thousands and actually SHOWS the process of building the whole loop.
Thanks for your comment 🙏 Absolutely! I am grateful that you found the video useful. Thank you again for watching
Lol bro bitspower fittings alone cost as much as this entire watercooling budget.
I love how thorough and step by step you are with everything, really feels more engaging that way and answers a lot of questions
Thanks for your comment 🙏 That sounds amazing. I intend for the videos to be from the viewer's POV, as if the viewer is doing the build. Not much fluff commentary, hands are covered and straight to the content. It's a tremendous amount of work but it's a labor of love. I plan to do my best to improve on each video. I am working on a Mora-Noctua420 build with the 4090 FE and 7800X3D watercooled in the Fractal Terra ITX, which will be the next video release. Hope you stay tuned! Thanks again for watching
Great video! It's strange, but there are very few videos on CZcams that show the entire custom loop process. I really appreciate you sharing this.
Thanks for your comment 🙏 I appreciate the positive feedback. If I had to venture a guess on why there aren't more videos showing the whole custom loop process is that it's likely a bit too much work for the potential available audience. These videos take an unreal amount of work but I sincerely enjoy it. I'm super happy that there is an audience and I will continue to do my best to improve with each new video. My next video that I am nearly done filming is a Fractal Terra 4090 build with Mora-Noctua-420 external rad build. I hope you stay tuned! Thanks again
Great video! Surprisingly very few videos showing a full inexpensive custom loop step-by-step. Most are either sponsored, show part of the loop (e.g. CPU only), or skip much of the build entirely and just show some b-roll footage. I also got a bunch of Barrow fittings (from formulamod) but paired it up with Corsair rads/pump/res and EK waterblocks and they all work great together. Also appreciate you using affordable last gen components, Alphacool is also a good affordable choice as well as the P12s, great choices all around! EPDM is also goated in the soft tubing world, if you want to go soft tubing, EPDM is the only choice (I use EK ZMT myself). All the sponsored guys on YT use the latest and greatest which cost a fortune and are not practical for the common person to build with. People getting into WCing are just looking for a simple first build, and this shows it perfectly.
Thank you for the comment 🙏 You got it right on. I can tell this stuff is right up your alley. In retrospect, this has been brought up before, and I think the reason why there aren't more videos like is that it's an incredible amount of work for potentially little gain. Showing everything can actually be incredibly technical and time-consuming. For me, I really love this stuff and I really want to show it how I see it in my head and how I do it constantly in my studio.
I play a lot in the high end, but this video was an opportunity to really really think about the budget/low-end. I am very proud of the result. I stand by every unit and I have all the high-end gear to compare.
Barrow fittings from the barrow store on aliexpress blew my mind. That kept the price under $350. That and the D5 pump combo were key units to keep the price down. As for the rest, the 30-series was so popular and had so many water blocks, its a great place to get a cheap block. Alphacool is solid and they appear to be spending money on R&D and improvements as their 40-series came with improvements over the 30-series.
Your rig sounds solid. Grats on your further ascension.
P12s are no brainers. I feature Noctua a lot on this channel, but its the buyer should recognize a part of cost goes into their customer service and warranty. I don't suggest Noctua at all for new builders, its complete unnecessary as they may not be as sensitive to fan noise. And the daisy chaining is great in comparison to RGB fans that may have up to 3 cables protruding from each fan.
And man, EPDM. Wow, what a product. It's all I have used (16/10 and 13/10) since I discovered it. I will likely go back to some hard tubing videos, but EPDM has been wow and eye opener and it's inexpensive too.
What I am trying to do is make water cooling more accessible. Showing everything up close, so people can make their own decisions and hoping to bring in more people into water cooling that want to try it but would prefer to have a solid guide to start. Thanks again for commenting and watching
These kind of comments are gold, Jerry!
@@vectornetworkyou have succeeded at making water-cooling more accessible, at least for one person!
Cool video, thanks, help a lot ❤❤
Thanks for your comment 🙏 I sincerely appreciate your encouragement and feedback. I am stoked that you enjoyed it. Thanks again
Please enjoy watching 🙏
Very cool video. I’m just getting back into PC gear after years of just being away from it. And seeing a video like this definitely makes me believe I can do something like this as well. Keep up the great work with these videos
Very useful video! Learned alot and not need to be pricy!,👌
Really awesome guide, thank you so much
You sound just like Hjune. Thanks for the video. Cheers brotha!
Wow, good job!!!
Ieftin și foarte fain,,mie-mi place👍
Thanks for your comment 🙏I appreciate the kind words. Thanks again
Its impressive to gather all this for 350$, considering that some of the AIOs are around 200$
Thanks for your comment 🙏 Right on and absolutely, friend. Every piece has a place and the loop functions just like all the high-end ones on the channel. I had to double check the GPU temps a few times. It was so low that I thought it was off. Nope, that's just the temps. There is plenty of headway to add a beefier CPU.
seriously. AIO has gotten so much more expensive that custom loop is not much more unless you do hard loops.
@@vectornetwork’headroom’, not ‘headway’. Great video 👌🏼
You make an excellent point! AIO’s are disposable junk. Air or custom loop.
@@AlanGresham Ah, thank you. I will keep that in mind as I will likely have to say something similar in the future. 🙏
God, this is a great video
Thanks for your comment 🙏 And thank you good PC brethren. I am motivated to keep improving the videos and producing more of them. Thanks again for watching
And then, you can always add/upgrade parts bit by bit if you want to.
Also...I'll always add a drain port if there's an unused port. Sure, it doesn't drain the entire loop, but you really want it to empty the reservoir.
Is the water pump not noisy with the case lids on?
Thanks for your comment 🙏 The pump is not noisy. From my experience, noisy pump may be attributed to air in the pump and/or installation where the vibrations are causing unnecessary noise. Hope that helps
How do you empty your system?
Thanks for your comment 🙏 Typically, I would add a drain port to make draining the system a bit more convenient. I would typically find a spot on the Reservoir or use a T-splitter and put it on one of the radiator ports. Either way, you want it at a location that is as low as possible. I didn't add the drain port to this build because it is truly not necessary and it would add complexity and cost.
Whether a drain port is installed or not, it still requires breaking apart the loop carefully to get out the remaining water. Keep in mind, I have heard that some people will use an air blower to inject air into the loop to get out all the water with a drain port. I haven't tried that myself. What I do is just find a spot in the loop where if you undo the fitting, undo and pinch and pull away the tube, the coolant that may come out will not immediately drop on any components. It is easier with soft tubing.
Long story short, how to drain this is to just get a funnel, a bucket, a towel and then find a good tube to pull out and slowly take apart your loop and get the water out. There probably is better ways, but I enjoy taking apart the whole loop when I do maintenance. It's why I recommend starting with the EPDM tubing, as you can continually reuse it. Hope that helps
I used build my own loop back in the days of slotfan gpus. I dont anymore, its a waste of money. Since 2012 though, this has been pointless. GPU heatsink design has come a long way, youre more likely to hear the coil whine than the fans. AIOs are so good at this point that MTF times are around 60k hours, same amount as a D5, and will last years. Your view on them is antiquated.
There are always people like you. 🙄
Nays 👋🫶👍