Building a Custom Watercooling Loop

The process of building a custom watercooling loop is a complex and intricate task that requires attention to detail and a good understanding of the components involved. In this article, we will follow along with a builder as they create their own unique watercooling loop.

Firstly, the builder begins by examining the fittings available for the loop. They note that there are several white fittings in the build, which can sometimes make it difficult to determine if something is working correctly. The builder decides to add some additional fittings to the loop to improve its overall appearance and functionality. One of the key components of the loop is the CPU tube, which connects the 120mm radiator to the CPU block. The builder notes that this tube is not as tight as they had initially thought it would be, but it still gets the job done.

The next step in the process is to add the GPU tubing to the loop. The builder carefully routes the tubing through the system, making sure that it flows smoothly and efficiently. They also take care to ensure that the GPU is properly cooled, as this can be a challenging part of the build.

As the builder works on the loop, they come across the pump and reservoir. These components are crucial to the overall operation of the loop, and the builder must carefully position them in order to achieve optimal performance. They also take care to ensure that the level of the liquid is at its highest possible point, as this can help to prevent air from entering the system.

The final step in the process is to add the remaining components to the loop, including the tubing, fittings, and any additional accessories such as radiators or blocks. The builder carefully routes the tubing through the system, making sure that it flows smoothly and efficiently.

In terms of aesthetics, the builder is pleased with how the loop has turned out. They note that the use of white fittings throughout the build helps to create a cohesive and visually appealing design. However, they do acknowledge that some parts of the build can look a bit busy or overwhelming.

The builder also takes some time to add additional touches to the system, including a 3D printed Mega Man character that is integrated into the loop. This adds a fun and whimsical touch to the build, and helps to break up the lines of tubing and fittings.

In conclusion, building a custom watercooling loop requires careful planning, attention to detail, and a good understanding of the components involved. By following these steps and taking care to ensure that every component is properly positioned and connected, builders can create unique and functional systems that meet their specific needs.

The Future of Watercooling

In addition to the building of individual watercooling loops, there are also opportunities for creating larger-scale installations. One idea being explored is the use of 3D printing technology to create complex and intricate designs. The builder notes that they have been considering using a 3D printer in some way to create their next build, although no final plans have yet been decided.

For now, the builder has opted to focus on building smaller systems, such as this custom watercooling loop. However, they do acknowledge that there is potential for larger and more complex builds in the future. The use of 3D printing technology could open up new possibilities for designers and builders, allowing them to create truly unique and innovative installations.

In terms of aesthetics, the builder believes that the Mega Man character will be a great addition to their next build. They note that the character is highly detailed and can be posed in a variety of ways, making it easy to integrate into different systems and designs. The builder also notes that they have struggled in the past to find compatible components for their builds, particularly when it comes to matching the color scheme or style of the system.

The builder's use of Mega Man as a prop is just one example of how they plan to incorporate more personality and whimsy into their future builds. By using unique and creative designs, builders can make their systems stand out from the crowd and add an extra layer of fun and personality to their builds.

In Conclusion

Overall, building a custom watercooling loop requires careful planning, attention to detail, and a good understanding of the components involved. The builder's use of white fittings throughout the system helps to create a cohesive and visually appealing design, while the addition of the Mega Man character adds a fun and whimsical touch.

As we look to the future of watercooling, there are many opportunities for innovation and creativity. The use of 3D printing technology could open up new possibilities for designers and builders, allowing them to create truly unique and innovative installations. By embracing these new technologies and ideas, builders can continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the world of watercooling.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right here we go back to the world's longest water cooled build by JC sense actually that's not even true this is nowhere near a year old yet the landcool 216 mid tower case from Liam Lee offers a host of Premium features without the premium price tag modular motherboard placements allow for either a higher or lower position to accommodate optimal air cooler and water cooling configurations ensuring the most room possible and the pre-installed dual 160 millimeter front fans and 140 millimeter exhaust pwm fans provide great airflow due to the continuous mesh design in order to keep higher power components as cool as possible available in white or black RGB and non-rgb versions and starting at 99 the land cool 216 from Lee and Lee provides Great Value alongside its great feature set to learn more follow the sponsored Link in the description below okay so in our last part so I'm like part four or five now of working on this build for my friend here um dubbed the Mega Man build even though it's not like anything Super Mega Man theme yet we might bust out the 3D printer but I gotta build it first before I integrate any of that stuff I talked about the fact that when I come out of the active backplate water block for the strix 4090 and I wanted to go to a reservoir here and then back to the CPU now this will be the first time I've ever done anything like this because I I've always just had a regular Reservoir pump combo thing like this and then a normal Loop my concern was whether or not a reservoir here would be able to pull from it properly and I can't imagine any reason why it wouldn't because as long as the tube is completely submerged and the return line is completely submerged any air should get trapped up there and it should just vacuum pull just fine I also was thinking this gives me another place to fill more fluid in the loop so I could fill this up entirely and then this would allow me to also let air out as it's filling and then as it comes up to this level I could top it off here cap this off top this off so I think it would be nice so anyway it arrived I'm using the EK Quantum volume which is essentially the same thing as this uh what do they call this here the FLT I forgot what they call it the kinetic this is the same thing only it doesn't have a pump built in so this is perfect it's a 120. I've got to keep my fingers crossed that it fits right here because as you can see it's kind of tight right there um another thing too you can see I've got some more tubing on here we'll talk about in a sec I need to switch these fittings right here um I had I did flow test by the way blowing in this tube air does come out here so it's weird I wanted to do like a parallel Loop but I talked about why that doesn't work but I am going to switch the outlets over here because I would have assumed it would have been a standard terminal where it goes through the bottom block comes out here goes straight across goes through the block and comes out here and apparently it goes in there comes out here does a z flow over to here and then goes through the block and comes out here so the reason why air was coming out here when I was testing is because it's just going across and straight out so I need to switch these two which would have technically what would have happened if I had left it like this is it just would have bypassed the block and the fluid through here wouldn't have flowed and then we would not have had it now to back plate we'd have a pass a cool back plate with fluid not moving so I need to switch those two which is actually good because now it gives me a little bit more room to get over to here it does have RGB so it gives me another area to be able to uh to have lighting also too if you guys didn't see I was able as you can see to get really good drilled holes and tap threads and acrylic so everyone telling me Jay you're doing it wrong well apparently wrong was right in this instance there are ways I could do it better but you know what I got the job done so let's see if this guy is going to fit the question is is this the size of a standard 120 fan Them Holes line up perfectly nice okay so this is going to be sick let me get this mounted real quick all right so there it is installed and as you can see I've got multiple ports if I look along the exit Port here for the GPU doesn't perfectly line up with that left Port but have two input ports to come off the GPU and I've got one outlet Port there on the right and they're separated by the anti-venturi uh stick sort of sticking up in the middle there so I need to keep them separated with that otherwise it can create a bit of a Venturi effect um also too you'll notice they're lower than the CPU block so I had considered even for a moment maybe drilling a new Port that was perfectly the right height but it would barely be above the existing port and too close to those threads so I don't want to screw with that so I think I'm just gonna have to make that work with the way I've got it I want to talk about this tube here for a second too you'll notice it's installed and it's got 90 degree fittings on here I did do one also too that is a bent tube so one with that fittings and one with fittings and I let my friend decide which he liked best he chose the fittings he likes the way this looks with this whole like kind of a Mario pipes if you will even though this is a even though this is a Mega Man type build um he likes the fittings in there I just happen to have these on hand so I threw those in there and he liked them so we're going to leave those in there for now so now I've got to figure out my runs between here and here and here and there which is extra work and it's unnecessary but I think it'll go really well with the whole idea of this build so here's what I think I'm going to do with this tube right here is I'm going to go with the 90 degree down but as you can see looking at this angle is that kind of like a 45 degree angle and then I've got the piece that I showed you guys that he ended up we ended up not using because he wants the uh adapter fittings on there I can just trim that down and then we'll have the tube end up being something like that sort of out of the way so it still gives me room on top of the GPU to pose Mega Man and then we still have to go from here to the CPU so I'm not entirely sure I'm gonna do that one yet I'm gonna get this tube cut into the right length first that way I can see how much room I have and then technically I have to get that tube in there first and then put this one that way I have access with my hands to get in there so this is pretty simple I'm just gonna kind of Mark a little bit longer than I think I need and then I'll trim it down to the right size and this is why we keep all of our scraps and things we don't use because they might come in handy later all right so I don't have the collars on there but there's what that looks like so you can see we're horizontal we do have some like a room to adjust it if we need based on rotating the fittings but you can see looking from the front oh you've got that nice straight angle I've got to figure out that CPU run right there I could have gone to right here probably but I this just worked better honestly and what I was thinking is that technically I don't think it'll be enough room right here I I was like I could put a second drain there which would help to drain the upper Rad but that's not that big of a deal all right let's go and try the CPU now but as we come back and look at it I think having those fittings in the tube are right because of the angled fittings that we have back here it fills it out it doesn't look when it was just the tube it looked almost too clean because there's so many other white fittings in this build so it doesn't eat like Alfred Hitchcock effect sorry 80d right okay so here's what I came up with you can see I've got the CPU tube coming out of the 120 res into the CPU I've got that kind of a sort of a kink it's not quite as tight as the one down there but you can see it gets the job done it initially it looked kind of bad to me but I think it just works in that particular area it's on the same plane as what's going over to the rad so it's got this nice horizontal line going across the system and then you can see it paired with the GPU tubing it doesn't look bad at all so our GPU our Loop order goes pump through this tube into the Red Cross flow the red we'll double pass the rad up into the GPU in and then into the active back plate out of the active back plate into the 120 Reservoir now I need to make sure I keep the level as high as I possibly can that way there's no possibility of any air getting down here because when it's under vacuum or under like when it's flowing it's going to have a slight vacuum here we'll pull the level down some so I need to top this off as much as I can because if it ever pulls in air that would be a problem anyway as long as it's fully submerged it will pull through as if it were a tube it won't be a problem anyway into the CPU in out of the CPU into the upper rad across back across again into my return line that I added to the reservoir where I drilled and tapped it I'm ever trying to say tap it I think of something else anyway into the reservoir and then we're done so you can see how the loop looks looking straight on if we kind of move around so you can kind of get some ideas of what it's going to look like I think it works really well and you know what I'm really glad he chose to put the fittings here because with the amount of fittings I've got going on it really does tie it together and because I did a 90 Junction fitting there I had to do one there or it would look really off so I don't think it looks bad at all I think looks great there's only one other thing I need to try right now so I have no idea how I'm going to do this whole Mega Man thing we might utilize a 3D printer in some way but I just decided to throw the uh Mega Man character in here so we get an idea of how he's going to look I haven't posed him or anything yet I almost wish I'd run an LED to that to make that light up but yeah I feel I might put them down here I might have him hanging off something or looking like he's jumping or whatnot maybe not on the GPU otherwise it's too busy over here I don't know this guy is like super opposable so he's able to be like posed and pretty much any that's kind of neat but you can oppose him any way you want I just wish I had one of the bad guys that match but I can only find Mega Man with this particular company otherwise the other ones are really cartoony looking so I don't know it looks like he's taking a phone call while fighting right now but it is what it is that's where the theme has to come in later so I don't want to facing that way because then if you're looking at him so he looks like this looks like he's taking a phone call I was like remember man you got Mega Man here uh hold on fighting water man bubble man whatever it's very detailed though anyway the loop turned out great what I have to do now is all the wiring and stuff on it I rarely do the loop first but I knew the loop was going to be a challenge so it's just what I wanted to do to get it out of the way I always do these builds and different orders because I can never seem to do anything the same way every time so anyway that's it for today's video hope you guys enjoyed the little Vlog kind of a ride along if you will as I do it you guys like those kinds of videos and I want to get back to it and The more I've been sitting here looking at my sm8 that's sitting on the floor kind of want to do some big like diorama type of build because I could do so much inside of that that might be the perfect build to utilize some sort of a warship steam because the whole floor could be resin and looked like a waves and stuff two-year project incoming foreignall right here we go back to the world's longest water cooled build by JC sense actually that's not even true this is nowhere near a year old yet the landcool 216 mid tower case from Liam Lee offers a host of Premium features without the premium price tag modular motherboard placements allow for either a higher or lower position to accommodate optimal air cooler and water cooling configurations ensuring the most room possible and the pre-installed dual 160 millimeter front fans and 140 millimeter exhaust pwm fans provide great airflow due to the continuous mesh design in order to keep higher power components as cool as possible available in white or black RGB and non-rgb versions and starting at 99 the land cool 216 from Lee and Lee provides Great Value alongside its great feature set to learn more follow the sponsored Link in the description below okay so in our last part so I'm like part four or five now of working on this build for my friend here um dubbed the Mega Man build even though it's not like anything Super Mega Man theme yet we might bust out the 3D printer but I gotta build it first before I integrate any of that stuff I talked about the fact that when I come out of the active backplate water block for the strix 4090 and I wanted to go to a reservoir here and then back to the CPU now this will be the first time I've ever done anything like this because I I've always just had a regular Reservoir pump combo thing like this and then a normal Loop my concern was whether or not a reservoir here would be able to pull from it properly and I can't imagine any reason why it wouldn't because as long as the tube is completely submerged and the return line is completely submerged any air should get trapped up there and it should just vacuum pull just fine I also was thinking this gives me another place to fill more fluid in the loop so I could fill this up entirely and then this would allow me to also let air out as it's filling and then as it comes up to this level I could top it off here cap this off top this off so I think it would be nice so anyway it arrived I'm using the EK Quantum volume which is essentially the same thing as this uh what do they call this here the FLT I forgot what they call it the kinetic this is the same thing only it doesn't have a pump built in so this is perfect it's a 120. I've got to keep my fingers crossed that it fits right here because as you can see it's kind of tight right there um another thing too you can see I've got some more tubing on here we'll talk about in a sec I need to switch these fittings right here um I had I did flow test by the way blowing in this tube air does come out here so it's weird I wanted to do like a parallel Loop but I talked about why that doesn't work but I am going to switch the outlets over here because I would have assumed it would have been a standard terminal where it goes through the bottom block comes out here goes straight across goes through the block and comes out here and apparently it goes in there comes out here does a z flow over to here and then goes through the block and comes out here so the reason why air was coming out here when I was testing is because it's just going across and straight out so I need to switch these two which would have technically what would have happened if I had left it like this is it just would have bypassed the block and the fluid through here wouldn't have flowed and then we would not have had it now to back plate we'd have a pass a cool back plate with fluid not moving so I need to switch those two which is actually good because now it gives me a little bit more room to get over to here it does have RGB so it gives me another area to be able to uh to have lighting also too if you guys didn't see I was able as you can see to get really good drilled holes and tap threads and acrylic so everyone telling me Jay you're doing it wrong well apparently wrong was right in this instance there are ways I could do it better but you know what I got the job done so let's see if this guy is going to fit the question is is this the size of a standard 120 fan Them Holes line up perfectly nice okay so this is going to be sick let me get this mounted real quick all right so there it is installed and as you can see I've got multiple ports if I look along the exit Port here for the GPU doesn't perfectly line up with that left Port but have two input ports to come off the GPU and I've got one outlet Port there on the right and they're separated by the anti-venturi uh stick sort of sticking up in the middle there so I need to keep them separated with that otherwise it can create a bit of a Venturi effect um also too you'll notice they're lower than the CPU block so I had considered even for a moment maybe drilling a new Port that was perfectly the right height but it would barely be above the existing port and too close to those threads so I don't want to screw with that so I think I'm just gonna have to make that work with the way I've got it I want to talk about this tube here for a second too you'll notice it's installed and it's got 90 degree fittings on here I did do one also too that is a bent tube so one with that fittings and one with fittings and I let my friend decide which he liked best he chose the fittings he likes the way this looks with this whole like kind of a Mario pipes if you will even though this is a even though this is a Mega Man type build um he likes the fittings in there I just happen to have these on hand so I threw those in there and he liked them so we're going to leave those in there for now so now I've got to figure out my runs between here and here and here and there which is extra work and it's unnecessary but I think it'll go really well with the whole idea of this build so here's what I think I'm going to do with this tube right here is I'm going to go with the 90 degree down but as you can see looking at this angle is that kind of like a 45 degree angle and then I've got the piece that I showed you guys that he ended up we ended up not using because he wants the uh adapter fittings on there I can just trim that down and then we'll have the tube end up being something like that sort of out of the way so it still gives me room on top of the GPU to pose Mega Man and then we still have to go from here to the CPU so I'm not entirely sure I'm gonna do that one yet I'm gonna get this tube cut into the right length first that way I can see how much room I have and then technically I have to get that tube in there first and then put this one that way I have access with my hands to get in there so this is pretty simple I'm just gonna kind of Mark a little bit longer than I think I need and then I'll trim it down to the right size and this is why we keep all of our scraps and things we don't use because they might come in handy later all right so I don't have the collars on there but there's what that looks like so you can see we're horizontal we do have some like a room to adjust it if we need based on rotating the fittings but you can see looking from the front oh you've got that nice straight angle I've got to figure out that CPU run right there I could have gone to right here probably but I this just worked better honestly and what I was thinking is that technically I don't think it'll be enough room right here I I was like I could put a second drain there which would help to drain the upper Rad but that's not that big of a deal all right let's go and try the CPU now but as we come back and look at it I think having those fittings in the tube are right because of the angled fittings that we have back here it fills it out it doesn't look when it was just the tube it looked almost too clean because there's so many other white fittings in this build so it doesn't eat like Alfred Hitchcock effect sorry 80d right okay so here's what I came up with you can see I've got the CPU tube coming out of the 120 res into the CPU I've got that kind of a sort of a kink it's not quite as tight as the one down there but you can see it gets the job done it initially it looked kind of bad to me but I think it just works in that particular area it's on the same plane as what's going over to the rad so it's got this nice horizontal line going across the system and then you can see it paired with the GPU tubing it doesn't look bad at all so our GPU our Loop order goes pump through this tube into the Red Cross flow the red we'll double pass the rad up into the GPU in and then into the active back plate out of the active back plate into the 120 Reservoir now I need to make sure I keep the level as high as I possibly can that way there's no possibility of any air getting down here because when it's under vacuum or under like when it's flowing it's going to have a slight vacuum here we'll pull the level down some so I need to top this off as much as I can because if it ever pulls in air that would be a problem anyway as long as it's fully submerged it will pull through as if it were a tube it won't be a problem anyway into the CPU in out of the CPU into the upper rad across back across again into my return line that I added to the reservoir where I drilled and tapped it I'm ever trying to say tap it I think of something else anyway into the reservoir and then we're done so you can see how the loop looks looking straight on if we kind of move around so you can kind of get some ideas of what it's going to look like I think it works really well and you know what I'm really glad he chose to put the fittings here because with the amount of fittings I've got going on it really does tie it together and because I did a 90 Junction fitting there I had to do one there or it would look really off so I don't think it looks bad at all I think looks great there's only one other thing I need to try right now so I have no idea how I'm going to do this whole Mega Man thing we might utilize a 3D printer in some way but I just decided to throw the uh Mega Man character in here so we get an idea of how he's going to look I haven't posed him or anything yet I almost wish I'd run an LED to that to make that light up but yeah I feel I might put them down here I might have him hanging off something or looking like he's jumping or whatnot maybe not on the GPU otherwise it's too busy over here I don't know this guy is like super opposable so he's able to be like posed and pretty much any that's kind of neat but you can oppose him any way you want I just wish I had one of the bad guys that match but I can only find Mega Man with this particular company otherwise the other ones are really cartoony looking so I don't know it looks like he's taking a phone call while fighting right now but it is what it is that's where the theme has to come in later so I don't want to facing that way because then if you're looking at him so he looks like this looks like he's taking a phone call I was like remember man you got Mega Man here uh hold on fighting water man bubble man whatever it's very detailed though anyway the loop turned out great what I have to do now is all the wiring and stuff on it I rarely do the loop first but I knew the loop was going to be a challenge so it's just what I wanted to do to get it out of the way I always do these builds and different orders because I can never seem to do anything the same way every time so anyway that's it for today's video hope you guys enjoyed the little Vlog kind of a ride along if you will as I do it you guys like those kinds of videos and I want to get back to it and The more I've been sitting here looking at my sm8 that's sitting on the floor kind of want to do some big like diorama type of build because I could do so much inside of that that might be the perfect build to utilize some sort of a warship steam because the whole floor could be resin and looked like a waves and stuff two-year project incoming foreign\n"