Anyone with Origin watercooled PC experience?

[martman]

For the first time in my life I am considering going the boutique PC route. I know full well it is cheaper doing the self build thing..I've had a friend build 3 or 4 for me.
That said I am thinking about a full loop watercooled PC (GPU,CPU) from a custom company..as in the later years of my life, I can finally afford it. How much maintainece and upkeep is there to a watercooled system?

Thanks

 

[bfun_x1]

You may have to add water to the loop every few months. Drain the loop maybe once a year. Take it completely apart and reassemble it when you change components. There is a some risk involved every time you touch the loop. Building the loop yourself gives you valuable experience which helps reduce the risk.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Is your friend going to be pissed that you didn't go through them? It sounds like your friend did an OK job on prior builds, otherwise you wouldn't have gone back to them for 3-4 builds. So why change now? Because you have more money to piss away? Or do you think that your friend isn't "pro" enough to build a WC rig? (Ok, I'm a builder, but not too many ultra-high-end rigs, and I've never done custom water, so I could see that being a limitation, if someone wanted a really, really, ultra-high-end rig, that couldn't be cooled by a decent large AIO WC.)

I can see not wanting to build yourself. (Heck, I just bought an HP Gaming rig from Walmart, more of an experiment than anything else, but it was cheaper than I could have built it for using retail parts from Newegg.) But if you already have a relationship with a "PC Builder", why are you choosing to avoid them this time?

 

[aigomorla]

i dont ever recommend getting a fully custom lcs rig unless you have someone close by to help you incase something happens, or you yourself have built it, or know how to fix or supplement something when it goes wrong.

It just isn't worth the headache... trust me.

When an LCS system goes wrong, it can go wrong on a biblical flooding scale, which will be a game changer on some people.

A good analogy would be:
I don't know if u ever kept fish tanks, but its almost on par as buying a fully setup reef tank without any knowledge in how to maintain a exotic salt water setup.

 

[martman]

To the poster that was a bit rude...my friend now is diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and since the last build 4 or 5 years ago his symptons have grown much worse. Thank you very much.
Mods please close this thread before I lose control.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I apologize for being rude, and I'm terribly sorry to hear about your friend. I guess you could have just said "reasons" why you weren't going through them anymore.

I totally mis-read the situation. I took it personally, as a system-builder myself, like when a friend of a friend went to BestBuy, instead of coming to me, or one of our other mutual friends that's a system-builder. They bought a PC for Gaming, but they ended up with some i7 PC, but using Haswell Integrated Graphics to play their Blizzard games. I guess it was workable, but I wanted to even GIVE them a dGPU for free, to show them what they were missing, by sticking with the iGPU.

I guess, I didn't want you to make a similar mistake.

Again, I apologize.

Edit: The only reason that I could see, from re-reading the OP, was that you were choosing to buy a pre-built, rather than go through an apparently-trusted PC builder, was that you had "more money", which is never a good reason to buy a pre-built, as even with "more money", you can get a better deal and a better PC through a system builder. Which, as a system builder, I took offense, and thought that you intended to waste money on a pre-built, just because you could. Certainly, upon re-reading your OP, and not knowing about your friend's condition, you can see how I came to that conclusion, and why I reacted the way that I did.