I just built my first watercooling and I'm wery worried :(

[grandpatzer]

I just built my first watercooling and I'm wery worried
I have put 2 picture of this build.

Q1: So if I run this setup for 24-48h with pump on and no leaks I'm good to go?

Q2: It seems like I have kink between res and waterpump, beside more resistance does this mean the tube will break aswell?

Q3: I connected a tube with fitting to fillport hole on case, but this metod is wery difficult as it is almost impossible to fit a tube with fitting to reservoire what other ways are there?

Q3a: So once I filled the reservoire and run couple of times I took out with big effort fillport tube and put on door on reservoir where fillport tube was, now there is air, how will this air be released from system?!

Q4: How do I bleed system now?
Q5: How do I drain and refill once I put in GPU + External radbox?
Q6: I want to drill out the harddrive cage but where can I install the res, there is no holes to install it.

Q7: The holes in the top of case where too big to screw in M3x30 screw to rad, so I had to use 4 screws for fans to case and 4 screw fan to radiator, is this bad?

First it seemed like my reservoire is leaking however now it seems like it might have been water from when I overfilled the res.

Now there is a 15cm (5inch) long air bubble when I turn off the PSU the air bubble goes throug cpu block and into reservoir.





My current goal is to add a external radbox + 360 rad and add a 7970.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Is that a 960t I see in there??

I'm no liquid cool expert but that looks like a bad place to put the resevoir.

 

[grandpatzer]

Is that a 960t I see in there??

I'm no liquid cool expert but that looks like a bad place to put the resevoir.

You mean the reservoir is in bad place as the water could drip on pump?

Regarding Q3 the problem was that when I had it open the pump pushed the water out through the fillport and it was alot of water and hard

This made me worried and I thought you had to bleed with the fill cap shut off so that the pump can't push put water through fill hole.

Maybe if I put pump at level 1, but it's difficult because the red speed switch has fallen off and harddrive cage is in way of a thin screwdriver.

Q4. but I can't bleed because the water comes out though the fill hole on reservoire?!

Q7.

It is 4 fan screws holding 2x 120mm fans to the case and 4 3mx30 screws holding 2 fans to 240 rad.

I think I'l forget about washers because it took me 3-5 hours to install the rad because the screw holes on the rad are not matching up properly so if one fan hole is installed the other hole takes alot of time to try screw in.

 

[Nemesis 1]

You mean the reservoir is in bad place as the water could drip on pump?

Regarding Q3 the problem was that when I had it open the pump pushed the water out through the fillport and it was alot of water and hard

This made me worried and I thought you had to bleed with the fill cap shut off so that the pump can't push put water through fill hole.

Maybe if I put pump at level 1, but it's difficult because the red speed switch has fallen off and harddrive cage is in way of a thin screwdriver.

Q4. but I can't bleed because the water comes out though the fill hole on reservoire?!

Q7.

It is 4 fan screws holding 2x 120mm fans to the case and 4 3mx30 screws holding 2 fans to 240 rad.

I think I'l forget about washers because it took me 3-5 hours to install the rad because the screw holes on the rad are not matching up properly so if one fan hole is installed the other hole takes alot of time to try screw in.

Ya it would be hard to bleed the air out with the rad mounted to top of case. Think gravity. I have only built one system with the rad above the reservoir. That was a complete koolance setup that gave no problems I even mixed and matched copper and aluminium using koolance liquid. I just tore that system down to clean and it was spotless it was as good as the day it was built in2005. Mix and match works fine so long as your not an idiot.

 

[nealh]

I would highly recommend some clamps on the tubing over the barbs. I use metal clamps from Lowe's

 

[masteryoda34]

I would highly recommend some clamps on the tubing over the barbs. I use metal clamps from Lowe's

+1

 

[Xpage]

Clamp every connection, even if it is ribbed and shouldn't leak. 30 cents worth of a clamp saves you leaks and any potential damage.

Where will your PSU go?

 

[Grooveriding]

Please put clamps on everything, you're going to have an accident if you don't. Even the folks who WC using tubing too small for the barbs and heating the tubing to get it on generally use barbs/comp. fittings for safety. It's just not worth taking the chance.

From my reading it's all about what gets the water on it; you could get a simple power-down, kill one component or take out your entire rig depending on what gets splashed. Not worth the chance!

 

[Turtle.Man]

Q4. but I can't bleed because the water comes out though the fill hole on reservoire?!

I can't be sure from your photograph, but it looks like you possibly have the pump outlet connected to the coolant reservoir. At least, that would explain the water being blasted out of the fillport when the pump is activated.

And here's another +1 for hose clamps. Get them ASAP.

 

[SparkyJJO]

A few things I would do:

1) Spin the pump around so you don't have a kink on the inlet tube.
2) move the tube that comes off the CPU block going to the res from the top of the res to where the plug is on the lower side. This will help with bleeding tremendously. As it is set up now you really can't bleed it.
3) Get clamps ASAP.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

So when u blow water all over the inside of your rig you just gonna towel off the parts, whip out your receipt, and try to return it all?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2218955&highlight