One thing I recommend to first timers is don't forget to eat and drink. If you're someone like me who becomes extremely focused on what they're doing (I have ADHD and literally hyperfocus on stuff like this), you can and will forget to eat or drink during the process. Last time I built a loop from start to finish, I worked for probably around 6 to 8 hours straight on it, and I forgot to eat and hydrate myself the whole time. That made me irritable, which made the build frustrating, which made my work sloppy and I had to redo some bends. Take breaks, give yourself time to eat, drink, and chill out, and it will make the whole process less stressful and easier.
Agreed. It's easy to lose oneself when being passionate about something. That's why surround yourself with your loved ones as they will always pull you back to reality.
@@blai5e730 noob here. Could you plz explain what you said in a little more depth? I am just now looking into custom liquid loops and what you said went right over my head.
As a word of advice, instead of just putting water in the system and moving it around to see if it leaks. Buy a cheap pressure tester for 15$ where you can put a load on it based off of psi because even though you might not see a leak now you might once the pump runs and puts pressure into the system. $15 can go a long way with water cooling.
That's exactly what Jay did, he ran the pump as he was filling it. You could use a pressure tester to put even more pressure in the system, but he did run the pump which did put pressure in the line.
@@TheRealUnconnected He said "pressure tester". A pressure tester is very different from an air pump. And the type of pressure tester that you buy for $15 is a simple gauge that threads onto a fitting and reads the pressure in the line. You add a pump into that which requires an electric motor and more tubing and internal components and pretty sure it goes north of $15. Also, and this might be just me, but if I'm going to test a system for a given application, I'm going to test using the same energy transfer medium as will be used in the application.
@@metaldiceman pretty sure he is talking about the specific ekwb loop testing device which includes an air pump and gauge. Surely you as a man of science who wants to test with the same medium realises that if it can hold air it can hold water right?
Plumber here working in the new commercial construction side if things. Ive been following the transformation of watercoolong and It's crazy to me how this gets closer to actual plumbing. Nice job, Jay.
@@tygonmaster sure, but when watercooling first started, it wasnt like this. Everything was w Custom fitted. Now, the fittings are more flared and compressed. Easier to work with.
@@artemisftwable Bit of a linguistic fudge there. "Plumber" usually is specific to "home or industrial sanitation and utility" or something of the like, but yes, there are different kinds of plumbing. That said, maybe your plumber games. :^)
there really hasnt been much change in the last several years. the most user friendly thing in the last few years is the quick release fittings that are more reliable (there were some before but they were less reliable than normal fittings)
@@Ashaira this isn't totally true, you can now buy a full ekwb kit with everything you need for a custom loop at a pretty low price. Basically a do it yourself AIO.
So I won the opportunity to buy an RTX 3080 in a Newegg shuffle. But I picked a water-cooled one by mistake. So I was kind of forced to upgrade my rig to water cooling. This guide was immensely helpful and with the proper planning, water cooling is surprisingly easy to do. Highly recommend!
I was saving up for a Pc until my parents surprised me with a prebuilt. They told me it was water cooled (they don’t know what that means) but when I’m looking at the pc all I see is a radiator (I think) and a tube to the motherboard. Should I be worried?
@@TV08756 Sounds like it's an AIO, which is a closed loop watercooled CPU. It looks like it's going into the motherboard, but it's actually cooling your CPU chip. Your graphics card can't be water cooled with this system.
@@sopcannon really hoping I'm free of that issue, switched to a kraken so I could drop icue. Haven't had a lock up since then. But it's only been a week today
You know NGL, I hated ICUE a few years ago. Nothing but problems. But current day I think it's actually really good. The only problems I have anymore are with easyanticheat not liking Corsair Lighting service. But after setting all of my colors and whatnot to remain applied when the computer isn't on, I find that also keeps everything working correctly if I have to close ICUE to play certain games.
I was able to understood the whole process even though I had absolutely no idea about watercooling. This video was so informative and now makes me wanna build my custom loop lol. Thanks Jay, you've been my reference on PC tips for years, keep it up
Air cooling is certainly reliable, and alittle easier on maintenance. Water cooling is more work, but looks cooler, and even if you arent pushing temps, it allows you to run your fans at lower rpm for a much quieter pc. Noise is the primary reason i WC'ed and given my GPU is still air cooled (due to no blocks available for it, its a 1060), its the Loudest part in my system, and anytime i fire up a game, its obvious the fan ramps up. So much so it bothers me.
@@lyianx So... water cooling didn’t really address the noise issue? That’s actually why I stuck to pure air only and careful tweaking of the fans + using the best fan / size / impedance style configured carefully. I use a Noctua NHD15 chromax with 200mm + 140mm of front intake. 120mm rear exhaust because the best exhaust fans are the Noctua S12A which are 120mm only and are phenomenal, with 280mm total top exhaust fitted via a low noise adaptor. The system is like 36dba and doesn’t make noticeable transition idle to load. Even my founders 3070 uses it’s standard fans so I can only undervolt and curve the fan perfectly enough to not get loud. But I suppose it DOES run hot. High 70s at near full load and gaming. I think that’s where water cooling would help, but I’m not fussed and water cooling doesn’t make it silent so I’m not a water person for any means
Honestly, I wouldn't mind a "Beginner's Guide to Aircooling" which breaks down the various types of fans, their applications, and some recommendations...
@@bomberdomme7308 to an extent. I’d say there’s definitely better cases for both quality, airflow, features etc the list goes on. But from a basic standpoint you’re correct. In my opinion
@@harryminkley1962 if you wanna go cheaper on the case Corsair 4000D Airflow if you have more money the new fractal design "torrent" should be the new airflow monster... quality and design-language wise i love fractal... im not such a big fan of the design language of more pricey manufactures like lianli and silverstone... I do love bequiet! aswell but i hate the plastic squeze connectors they use for holding front panels... these things brake fucking fast.
@@harryminkley1962 here it comes down to personal design taste... I'm a big fan of "understatement"... And lianli is more in car comparisons like a Bentley or rolls Royce... Often to shiny... Not exactly my bucket even if I would have the money for it... I would take a sleeper-car over it... If you know what I mean. My personal PC goes the understatement way aswell... Meshify + NH-d15 (Black) MSI unify x570 Al components blacked out... No RGB white LED only to see if dust cleaning inside is necessary again...
Thank you Jay. After around ten years of watching your videos about water cooling, I finally went ahead and did my own. Not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.
@@koiruus2170 how do you make your air cooled gpu quiet ? my CPU is fine with a humongous noctua C14S but my gpu is really making a annoying bitchy noise past 80% fans, and my case fans (all noctua) are also quite loud if I rev them up to compensate for GPU fans
@@koiruus2170 you care about the noise or you care to have your pc for a long time ? higher temps = lower life. I have pc`s from 10y+ ago and they still work
I was on the edge to give up waiting for the GPU shortage to recover and just buy a gaming laptop. Then this video came reminds me what I truly want and gives me more initiative to keep waiting for the day to come. Thank you, Jay.
I just build this exact same system for my 3070ti thanks to this video. I'm amazed at the result. My first water build ever and it worked out great. Thanks Jay!
Pausing at 11:40 or so to say thanks to Jay for this step by step water cooling build. I've been with Jay for a long time, just wanted to chime in to tell him how much I appreciate all these years of experience and knowledge that we've all gained from this man. Thank you as well, to his staff! Alright, back to class.
@@lyx9560 swimmingly! (Pun intended lol) I picked up 4 extra fittings and ended up needing all of them lol. And the ek leak tester saved my cpu, fittings on it weren’t fully tightened. $45 is a lot less than replacing that Boi or the mobo or worse! Temps on all parts came down 30C or more when gaming! Took me all weekend tho haha
I would have gone *Pump-> Rad 1 ->GPU* like you did, but for the hell of it (despite the mere 2 degrees) re-cool the coolant by going *GPU -> Rad 2 -> CPU -> Pump.* 24:13 a small rotating pipe cutter could work, and it leaves a smooth surface as well.
dont worry, water cooling systems isnt as much of a thing as it looks......i been building and repairing systems for 20 years, ive never used a water cool system, its just overkill (plus they look really cool).....unless your machine has poor ventilation, or a physically overclocked cpu (which generates much more heat, hence the water cool) air cooling works just fine
This tutorial is great! Would have been interesting to see some temp and FPS results. I know the video has to stop somewhere but this setup looks so potent and nice and also, it would be fantastic to know to what to expect from this kind of a setup.
@@Kwirts Not compared to stock air coolers. Apparently its supposed to be night and day difference of cooling performance between cheap air cooling and water cooling.
I had to change out the GPU in my water-cooled rig that I built last year. It was a good time for a flush and refill. I had to do some plumbing modes, as I didn't get the GPU cooler for the new card. Having forgot a few of the steps I came back here. I did do a pressure check first, with no leaks. Then, it became time to fill. Had a challenge reaching the CPU cable to incorporate the bypass module. No better words rang through my head than, "... if you get frustrated, walk away from it and come back a little later...". Pulled the memory boards and got to the cable reasonably quickly. The coolant is on board; further leak testing will be done by running it for a few hours now. This video is a great reference and a solid go-to that has helped me more than once. Thanks, Jay!
The term "accrylic" comes from the chemical used called acrylate. PMMA is polymethyl methacrylate. It is an acrylate, so it is an accrylic. This being said, their are different ways to make acrylates, some are more rigid and resistant and some are more akin to "glass" usually because they are a glass substitute.
the final build is absolutely gorgeous, personally I'm not a fan of the hassles of custom watercooling, but Jayz always tempts me with his amazing builds
@sen touji well if you've seen Jay's other videos he always has a drain port at the lowest part of the build for easy draining, one of 3 facts I know about water cooling haha
too bad the camera picked it up as greenish instead of clear icy light blue :/ if there was only a way to check footage on set ... ... like using digital recording smh
Jay... THANK YOU SO MUCH for making an easy to understand guide! I'm putting my custom loop together this weekend and I definitely wouldn't have felt comfortable without this video!!
Love this video! You can also use an air pressure gauge and pump air through the drain plug in the dry loop. If the needle doesn't move, no air leaves the loop. And if the loop is air tight, it will be water tight.
Lol he just grabbed a fistful of ram and pulled. but me not knowing literally anything I just thought “oh this must be normal”… I don’t think it is. I won’t be doing his little trick
@@philosopherkurdmuffins9835 I'm sure it's a trick you learn after years and years of non-stop pc building to be fair xD Most people would be horrified by the way I live my life. Because I live in a small space, I've needed to do a lot of dangerous balancing acts trying to carry out day to day tasks and it scares people sometimes, but I never break or damage anything I touch. Jay grabbed the ram pretty confidently and thoughtfully (carefully applied pressure and finger position) even though it didn't look like it. What's safe for him is absolutely unsafe for the average person to be fair. Danger is quite relative.
Been building custom water loops for over 25 years and this was very well done. It’s so easy these days with these kits, as traditionally we had to “Jerry rig” so much of the loop. The only thing I would add is when you think you’re done and system is bled in this case with the inverted ports on the rad, turn on the pump and flip the whole box 180* to get the air out of the top of that inverted rad. Other than that it’s excellent. 👍
I just finished my first watercooling loop and let me tell you one thing: it will never go as planned. I studied the loop and parts for months before and still hit some bumps along the build. Only after you build at least one you will understand what you need and how to do it properly.
It depends on what you do for a living. Some people have technical skills which make bending tubes and connecting fittings for a custom water loop seem like nothing.
@@kadmus78 I'm a civil engineer, but was not so easy to build my first custum liquid cooling loop. I didn't do hard tubes, I was looking for lower temperatures, not better looking system so I went for black soft tube.
Same, I literally just finished my first custom loop a couple hours ago, and boy did I ever run into some snags. I was as careful and meticulous as I could be, but you can’t think of what you don’t know when you are new. Fortunately, even if you have a leak, it’s consequence free so long as your system is powered down during peak testing.
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I just completed my build based on Jayz video, so thank you Jayz! I used the Corsair case and XD5, but most everything was different. Memory is water cooled with EKWB, as is the Dark Hero/5950X (with a monoblock) and a 2070 Super. Since this was my first ever custom loop water cooled system, my design was limited to one bend per tube. Passed the leak test, and using the system to write this. I was not happy with the cables off the 1050W PC Power and Cooling protruding into the drive cage, which had to be removed. So I designed a bracket for my 3-1/2" 6TB drive that takes up two of the 2.5" SSD drive brackets, and 3D printed it. Works great. I just hope it does not overheat in the cable area.
TBH their watercooling stuff is really decent as well. The fittings are bitspower, the pumps are DDC and D5, and come with integrated (but sadly not disassemblable) reservoirs, and the whole ecosystem has fantastic lighting integration with games has a seriously promising future, though currently the games officially supported can be counted on one hand, and 2 are basically the same game (FC5 + New Dawn, Division 2, and Metro: Exodus, which is the one I experienced, and it was incredibly immersion enhancing). I'd really love to see them add more games to that list though, I think adding lighting cues to people's PCs is one of the next steps in non-VR immersion focused games. It makes their stand alone LED bar lights (The ones that stand upright on stands) actually relevant as well, which is probably badly needed for that product lol. I added some LED strips to my build from corsair as well and they play different effects than the fans, syncing up more with the RGB blocks and reservoir from what I remember. It's definitely a really cool effect lol
really decent - and really expensive. bitspower for example are the most expensive fittings and arent even the best. rads are hwlabs however, which are *really* good, coolant is mayhems. frosted pmma tubes also look really good tho, i have them in my rig as well.
Just don't try to buy anything corsair...9 semi's pulled into the studio and now Jay will be "well, I need some fan's, I wonder if the 400,000 I have here will work"....just like with the cases and cases of Lian Li fans he has...nobody can get Lian Li addressable fan's, but Jay is all "Hmmm, let me see, I only have THREE MILLION to choose from"...FML
Well I'm not. Just skipping many parts. But intelligent marketing from corsair. I love corsair keyboards and PSU's but not these custom watercooling kits. Too much money to throw at.
As someone who does a lot of DIY home reno stuff, I always reccommend taking a small piece of whatever material being worked with and actively trying to mess it up as much as possible to see what it can really take
I know this video is old, and you probably won't see it, but I just wanted to say thank you for what you do man. I'm well versed enough that I know 99% of the stuff you talk about, but that 1% is humbling. You're obviously older than I am, and have been doing it a bit longer than I have, but when you do it a lot, it becomes second nature. And yet, here I am, still learning little tricks I didn't know about. I watch your videos because they're entertaining to me, but entertaining AND educational, it's just amazing to me man.
Some times you have no choice though. I want to mount my radiator externally, but the case I have doesn't provide any pass troughs. So there's no alternative to taking the back panel to the drill press to make mounting holes and all that.
@@lordofstrandhill Pretty good, all things considered. Ran into some space issues but that was more lack of planning. GPU and CPU are now icy cool, but the tubes sometimes sag and kink. I may have to recut some runs to make that stop happening, but overall, not bad. How did yours go?
@@PubstarHero Sounds great and very successful to me 👍🏻 It took me wayyy longer to realize than i thought coz i ran every day into another minor difficulty, but in the end it turned out to be actually pretty neat 👌🏻 THO, im actually unsure about whether 360+280 Rad space will be able to keep it cold enough in Summer, + im still waiting for fitting Custom PCB GPU Blocks to release/be in Stock, as the one i'm using right now is from Byksi and i dont really think thats the best possible solution, it just was the only one i was able to choose from, as there is only one other one from Alphacool which has 4-5 weeks delivery time and another one from ekwb that neither has a product picture nor a release date so far ^^ :/ Going to get the ekwb as soon as it will be available i guess 🤷🏻♂️ In the process of changing the Block im gonna do some other changes that i realized would be useful after my first few weeks of practical usage of the system, like adding another inline temp sensor & a aquacomputer flow sensor & maaany other minor changes 👌🏻
For a split second when I first saw the video title, I thought Jay made a RUclips video about waterboarding. I thought he was going to educate us on the finer points of interrogation.
OMG!!! A 39 minute video!!!! What did we do to deserve this?!?!?! P.S love your videos jay, they really help me relax after a tiring and stressful day!
Alrighty, I just wanna say thanks so much for this video! I just built my first ever custom pc and decided to water cool it with hard tubing like a idiot, but your vid helped me get through it and I’m really happy with how it came out! It’s by no means perfect but it works, and it doesn’t leak, thank you guys so much!
I love the references back to a vehicles cooling system. It is ridiculously similar, and you absolutely nailed it with the comments on temperature difference. Engines prefer around a 180° F running temp. Nothing like that in a PC lol
I want to try a custom water loop on my next build but I think the only thing missing from yours is custom sleeved cables. I did my own on my last build and while it's PITA, the end results look great.
I've only build 2 custom water loops so far, but I found that using the EKWB air pump/pressure gage was very useful in both testing your loops with pressure but also useful in finding leaks without adding a liquid. By the way Jay, those 90's are super tight!
@@BigLifeWithLitlJay I haven't seen those. I used the EKWB ones and found the angle radius a little big, making it hard to fit tight corners. I'm wondering if by using the larger 12-16 PETG tubing might be to blame...
@@ChatGTA345 yes. It works great. You can tell right away if you have a leak as the dial will show pressure loss. I'd wait about 20 mins to make sure. Also, side note, with the loop pressurized, you will also ensure good connections on the fittings. If you are curious, pump up the pressure into the "red" area and you will encounter what happens when your connections fail...
@@ChatGTA345 oh, and also, if you have a small leak, a great way to find it is by using a little dish soap in a water bottle and check each fittings one by one like you would find a leak in a bike tube tire.
I want to say thank you, Jay. I have been building PCs for 20+ years and PC gaming/upgrading for almost 25. I am currently building a brand new system (intel 12700K, RTX 3090 ti, etc.) fully water cooled for the very first time. Instead of hard tubing, though, I opted for soft tubing. But I priced out buying all of the components I needed versus getting the Corsair Hard Tube kit and getting the fittings and tubing and cost less that way. I added a 280 radiator as well as the included 360 and a water block for the 3090 ti. But this video was everything I could possibly need. So thanks for the work you did.
Thanks Jay. I went from not considering water cooling to wanting to do water cooling. Your video is clear and easy to understand. Keep up the great work.
Hey Jay. Currently working on putting together my third build. This time I am considering a custom water loop. My first two builds were restricted by budget...and lets face it, fear of custom loops..lol. Thanks again for a great video. I have been subscribed for only a few months but I love your content. Keep up the great work!!
I appreciate this content. I'm actually doing my very first custom loop and I inadvertently found out in basically making the editing rig you made for Phill. Been watching a lot of your content to figure out if I have all the stuff I need before I get to actually tearing down my old PC and moving it into the 719 and making the loop.
It's been nearly four months, but I finally got over the fear of breaking my GPU after having had all my parts since the beginning of December and put it together. Water loop is working. Just need to finish leak testing and then put the rest of the system together. Mostly just wiring at this point, but also the HDD cages for the mass storage.
@@drmememachine pretty good honestly. It's still running and works well. Like I mentioned, it's basically a mirror of the one he made for Phill so you can look at that if you want an idea of the appearance.
Awsome tutorial and thank you for taking the time to put it together. I'm looking to do my first pc build with custom hard line water cooling across cpu and gpu and so your video has been a massive help. Looking forward to watching more of your videos now as this was the first I'd seen. This is what I love about the internet, even though your in the Americas and I'm in the UK I can still get to watch your content :)
Thanks for your detailed shows about a subject that all computer builders have to deal with. Keep up the great work! Cooling electronic hardware challenge is here to stay.
Thank you for this guide! I'm currently stating to water cool my build myself for the first time. Super glad you released this video when I was about to start! Allowed me to find the right tools and properly approach this project! Thank you Jay!
I'm not meaning to criticize, but am I the only one noticing the huge air pocket on the cpu block..? That's no bueno lol. That section of the CPU will get very hot... Def want to make sure you get stuff like that out. Overall though, I loved the video. You wrapped it together very well and gave clear instructions. Really appreciate the effort you put into this and thought you did well with the design. Though I would have chose to go from the GPU to the top rad, then to the CPU and back to the reservoir. Nice job overall. One of the best informal tutorials I've seen to date. Thanks for the content. Best of luck! Cheers brotha!
I bought the Corsair hardline bending kit. The saw was hard to get straight clean cuts with so after 2 cuts I went to the garage and started using my 2 in. Mini Bench Top Cut-Off Saw from Harbor Freight that I use for ammo reloading. You get straight and clean cuts every time. It's like 30-40 dollars and worth it if you can't stand having uneven cuts and made rounding the ends even easier. The mandrel they supply for the inside of the pipe needs to be longer as well. If you plan on doing more than simple 90 bends, I recommend buying a longer one but for my first custom loop it worked.
I wanted to see that backside the whole time! What a goddamn mess it must have been with 10 QL fans, bringing in 2 cables each and then requiring at least 1 commander pro and lighting node extra in combination with the already installed fan controller and lighting node.
Yes he was that is obviously but what’s wrong with it, he keeps the stuff, built it in another rig, sell or give to anyone else, make a video out of it. Done. This is his job. Everybody needs a job. Good Content and explained very thoroughly! Thanks @Jay
I love this, this is just AMAZING, I enjoyed every second of this video and it is a long video. I appreciate the guide a lot, maybe make a video of a guide on how to maintain and change the coolant inside the pump and the tubes and radiators, that can be helpful. Thanks Jayz, Keep up the good work
Thank you for this guide. Much of what has stopped me from liquid cooling was just, not knowing how. And when I google it, all the sites make it seem so scary. But knowing I won't fry it by leaving it off, and how simple it really is makes me excited to do it.
Thank you for this video, i am going to be building a new rig soon and am considering a custom loop very similar to this set up. You answered a ton of my questions and the explanations were fantastic. Thank you very much!
Great video; however to me the scariest part of the process is the tube bending/measuring especially when you have multiple bends. I would have liked to have seen that portion of the build more in depth especially for a beginner.
Corsair: "Hey, could you do an educational ad for us?" Jay: "Sure, but I'm also gonna talk about my iFixit kit." Corsair: "Ok, but keep it short and no explosions!" Me: :´(
Jay, I still remember and have an aquarium pump, external radiator mounting brackets etc! Now I see corsair did it the right way but in case things go the wrong way there are still aquarium stuff XD !
Yeah you can hardly call this DIY cause back in the day (early 2000's) we used to have to use car radiators with aquarium pumps and the blocks were just a drilled through copper blocks. The industry has changed a lot from those days.
A brilliant friend of mine did a unorthodox mounting of all of his computer components too his bedroom wall with L brackets and whatnot. He had all those coolant lines running over a span of about five square feet and it looked really cool to be mounted on high of a bedroom wall. And since the bedroom is so small he had a window unit that was adjusted at 65° Fahrenheit so it kept the system pretty cool. He believed that a case over a period of time isn't the way to cool a computer because it's all confined instead his mentality was a spread the components out so the heat isn't all concentrated in a small space.
Wow Jay amazing job! It's a bit of work but well worth it. Looks super cool and neat with the rigid tubing. It's amazing that PCs have become plumbing jobs. Mario from Super Smash would be proud!
Love watching Jay do this stuff but to be honest don't ever think I'll have a system where watercooling it would be worth the money rather than spending it on something else.
Dang. This really helps conceptualize the whole thing. I did the easy water cooled CPU which is already pre connected to the radiator I bought. This was 4 years ago. Build is still going strong. It’s not translucent - I heard a lot of advice on not doing that on your first build and that was invaluable as it took me quite a long time to get it all together (about 8 hours for my first pc). Definitely thinking about the second one being translucent like this to support an even nicer PC when I am ready for that
Jay- "Hey what theme do you want for your ballin' gaming PC?" "I am Sub-Zero" "Yeah that's awesome but what theme are you looking for?" "I am Sub-Zero" "Ok... say no more"
Great tutorial! I just have a question: which is the difference between installing the 12 & 14mm tubes? I mean, both have the same internal diameter so is it only an aesthetics difference?
its a fitting and ascetics difference. a 14mm fitting wont work for a 12mm tube. he has another video from like 2015-2016 where he explains this in more detail
One thing I recommend to first timers is don't forget to eat and drink. If you're someone like me who becomes extremely focused on what they're doing (I have ADHD and literally hyperfocus on stuff like this), you can and will forget to eat or drink during the process. Last time I built a loop from start to finish, I worked for probably around 6 to 8 hours straight on it, and I forgot to eat and hydrate myself the whole time. That made me irritable, which made the build frustrating, which made my work sloppy and I had to redo some bends. Take breaks, give yourself time to eat, drink, and chill out, and it will make the whole process less stressful and easier.
Also, don't forget to breath. ;)
Agreed. It's easy to lose oneself when being passionate about something. That's why surround yourself with your loved ones as they will always pull you back to reality.
Excellent advice my guy
As someone with ADD, amen. I tend to do the same when I'm coding and overclocking.
Probably the most helpful tip considering you’re going to be working with some rather expensive parts
Bitwit's tips. Do the longest run first, if you mess up you can always cut that down to size and use it elsewhere.
Addition Bitwit tip - leave off at least one GPU block plug to allow for extra cooling of the motherboard :D
@@blai5e730 Just tried that, my temps immediately dropped to 0. I believe my computer is so cold now that it doesn't even work properly.
@@shlagin9354 if that ever happens most mobos have an LN2 option to increase stability at ultra low temps.
@@blai5e730 noob here. Could you plz explain what you said in a little more depth? I am just now looking into custom liquid loops and what you said went right over my head.
@@NapalmThunderbum He was joking. Don't leave any open plugs or you'll get a massive leak 😅
As a word of advice, instead of just putting water in the system and moving it around to see if it leaks. Buy a cheap pressure tester for 15$ where you can put a load on it based off of psi because even though you might not see a leak now you might once the pump runs and puts pressure into the system. $15 can go a long way with water cooling.
Good advice - thanks!
That's exactly what Jay did, he ran the pump as he was filling it. You could use a pressure tester to put even more pressure in the system, but he did run the pump which did put pressure in the line.
@@metaldiceman OP is talking about an air pump to fill the loop with pressurised air to test for leaks. Not pressurised water dude.
@@TheRealUnconnected He said "pressure tester". A pressure tester is very different from an air pump. And the type of pressure tester that you buy for $15 is a simple gauge that threads onto a fitting and reads the pressure in the line. You add a pump into that which requires an electric motor and more tubing and internal components and pretty sure it goes north of $15.
Also, and this might be just me, but if I'm going to test a system for a given application, I'm going to test using the same energy transfer medium as will be used in the application.
@@metaldiceman pretty sure he is talking about the specific ekwb loop testing device which includes an air pump and gauge.
Surely you as a man of science who wants to test with the same medium realises that if it can hold air it can hold water right?
Plumber here working in the new commercial construction side if things. Ive been following the transformation of watercoolong and It's crazy to me how this gets closer to actual plumbing. Nice job, Jay.
Well, it literally is plumbing....just for a computer.
@@tygonmaster sure, but when watercooling first started, it wasnt like this. Everything was w
Custom fitted. Now, the fittings are more flared and compressed. Easier to work with.
@@javiervazquez9472 Now started to see some "steampunk" build were they are actually using copper tubing
@@tygonmaster good to know I can call a plumber if something goes wrong in my liquid cooling
@@artemisftwable Bit of a linguistic fudge there. "Plumber" usually is specific to "home or industrial sanitation and utility" or something of the like, but yes, there are different kinds of plumbing. That said, maybe your plumber games. :^)
This video is GOLD. I love how you move quickly through topics. 0 reason to even skip around the video, everything is relevant.
Right? He also speaks loudly which is very engaging
Except for the sponsor
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Jay ballin' so hard he got sponsored by Corsair and EVGA at the same time😂
That's pretty cool but I'm always a little disappointed when the video isn't sponsored by iFixit.
@@somethinglikethat2176 IFIXITTTTTTT💥💥💥💥💥
Double Dippin' like Linus now. 🤣
@@somethinglikethat2176 I fixxit💥💥💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥☠️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
IFIXIT *EXXPLOSIONNN*
I have no doubt that this video is going to reach a million views because of how water cooling is becoming more DIY friendly now.
there really hasnt been much change in the last several years. the most user friendly thing in the last few years is the quick release fittings that are more reliable (there were some before but they were less reliable than normal fittings)
@@Ashaira this isn't totally true, you can now buy a full ekwb kit with everything you need for a custom loop at a pretty low price. Basically a do it yourself AIO.
Ek starting kits & such never were avaliable in my area, so yeah!
And I am stoked!
Corsair (and EK) configurator make it even easier.
DIY yes.. .Wallet NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your old guides are how i got into custom water cooling. Thanks for all the great content over the years 🙏
So I won the opportunity to buy an RTX 3080 in a Newegg shuffle. But I picked a water-cooled one by mistake. So I was kind of forced to upgrade my rig to water cooling. This guide was immensely helpful and with the proper planning, water cooling is surprisingly easy to do. Highly recommend!
Lol, good for you
@@philosopherkurdmuffins9835 *licks the salt off of you*
@@lucifersevenelevenmorningstar *puts more on*
I was saving up for a Pc until my parents surprised me with a prebuilt. They told me it was water cooled (they don’t know what that means) but when I’m looking at the pc all I see is a radiator (I think) and a tube to the motherboard. Should I be worried?
@@TV08756 Sounds like it's an AIO, which is a closed loop watercooled CPU. It looks like it's going into the motherboard, but it's actually cooling your CPU chip. Your graphics card can't be water cooled with this system.
I've teamed up with corsair for a beginners guide today
1 second later : thanks evga and their elite program for sponsoring this video
Mistake were made.
Ti ora kimase re kai to vlepeis afto???
Corsair provided the parts (so that Jay saves money), EVGA paid for a direct advertisement (so that Jay gets money). Not all that hard to understand.
@@alanleuthard2689 The joke hasn't hit home yet. Give it time.
@@revisks1944 Λειτουργεί με ώρα Αμερικής :P !
„Watercooling is not hard “ yeah ur right the parts are just hard to pay for 💔😣😢
Paying is easy, robbing a bank is the hard part 😂
and don't forget Icue its easy to use but for some reason like s to crash my computer when i watch videos.
@@JoshW1ck r/cursedcomments
@@sopcannon really hoping I'm free of that issue, switched to a kraken so I could drop icue. Haven't had a lock up since then. But it's only been a week today
You know NGL, I hated ICUE a few years ago. Nothing but problems. But current day I think it's actually really good. The only problems I have anymore are with easyanticheat not liking Corsair Lighting service. But after setting all of my colors and whatnot to remain applied when the computer isn't on, I find that also keeps everything working correctly if I have to close ICUE to play certain games.
I was able to understood the whole process even though I had absolutely no idea about watercooling.
This video was so informative and now makes me wanna build my custom loop lol.
Thanks Jay, you've been my reference on PC tips for years, keep it up
I just like a simple air cooled system but I love the idea of watercooling and who know it better than Jay
Only Poseidon to be sure
NH-D15 is quite competitive compared to most AIOs.
Air cooling is certainly reliable, and alittle easier on maintenance. Water cooling is more work, but looks cooler, and even if you arent pushing temps, it allows you to run your fans at lower rpm for a much quieter pc. Noise is the primary reason i WC'ed and given my GPU is still air cooled (due to no blocks available for it, its a 1060), its the Loudest part in my system, and anytime i fire up a game, its obvious the fan ramps up. So much so it bothers me.
@@lyianx So... water cooling didn’t really address the noise issue? That’s actually why I stuck to pure air only and careful tweaking of the fans + using the best fan / size / impedance style configured carefully.
I use a Noctua NHD15 chromax with 200mm + 140mm of front intake. 120mm rear exhaust because the best exhaust fans are the Noctua S12A which are 120mm only and are phenomenal, with 280mm total top exhaust fitted via a low noise adaptor. The system is like 36dba and doesn’t make noticeable transition idle to load. Even my founders 3070 uses it’s standard fans so I can only undervolt and curve the fan perfectly enough to not get loud.
But I suppose it DOES run hot. High 70s at near full load and gaming. I think that’s where water cooling would help, but I’m not fussed and water cooling doesn’t make it silent so I’m not a water person for any means
@@mspencerl87 Aquaman, don't forget Aquaman.. Also Killer Frost and Iceman.
I've not got enough disposable income to do this, but I love watching Jay succeed doing it 🥰
For the first time in my life I do, but completing a build is ridiculous.
@@GahloWake Same, sometimes 300% mark up on GPUs makes me sad
@@JoshuaPitts Sometimes it makes you sad? Not always?
@@davidandrew7314 He does get his paycheck at least once a month after all!
Did a vetroo k2 build. Still waiting on a gpu miracle.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind a "Beginner's Guide to Aircooling" which breaks down the various types of fans, their applications, and some recommendations...
noctuah nh-d15 + fractal design meshify... case closed.
@@bomberdomme7308 to an extent. I’d say there’s definitely better cases for both quality, airflow, features etc the list goes on. But from a basic standpoint you’re correct. In my opinion
@@harryminkley1962 if you wanna go cheaper on the case Corsair 4000D Airflow if you have more money the new fractal design "torrent" should be the new airflow monster... quality and design-language wise i love fractal... im not such a big fan of the design language of more pricey manufactures like lianli and silverstone...
I do love bequiet! aswell but i hate the plastic squeze connectors they use for holding front panels... these things brake fucking fast.
@@bomberdomme7308 Im just too attached to Lian Li, their quality, looks and building experience is unrivalled in my opinion
@@harryminkley1962 here it comes down to personal design taste... I'm a big fan of "understatement"... And lianli is more in car comparisons like a Bentley or rolls Royce... Often to shiny... Not exactly my bucket even if I would have the money for it... I would take a sleeper-car over it... If you know what I mean. My personal PC goes the understatement way aswell... Meshify + NH-d15 (Black) MSI unify x570 Al components blacked out... No RGB white LED only to see if dust cleaning inside is necessary again...
Thank you Jay. After around ten years of watching your videos about water cooling, I finally went ahead and did my own. Not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.
Congrats bro, are their any resources you could recommend for someone who wants to study water cooling before making their first attempt at it?
Only us broke gamers will understand the pain of watching something like this
It kinda the only thing we can afford now...
Quit smoking dude and use all that funds to buy a new GPU. Oh wait ...
@@mxmaverinho8115 i dont even smoke
@@koiruus2170 how do you make your air cooled gpu quiet ? my CPU is fine with a humongous noctua C14S but my gpu is really making a annoying bitchy noise past 80% fans, and my case fans (all noctua) are also quite loud if I rev them up to compensate for GPU fans
@@koiruus2170 you care about the noise or you care to have your pc for a long time ? higher temps = lower life. I have pc`s from 10y+ ago and they still work
It’s like he knew I needed help and have no clue what i’m doing. Perfect time man thank you so much.
I was on the edge to give up waiting for the GPU shortage to recover and just buy a gaming laptop. Then this video came reminds me what I truly want and gives me more initiative to keep waiting for the day to come.
Thank you, Jay.
You can either buy a apu like ryzen 7 5700G or buy a really cheap gpu but I would recommend the apu.
@@3rdworldcountrydumbass273 Price to performance ratios for a custom loop for an APU is just not feasible outside of just buying an AIO.
Get the laptop they have great resell value . Also if you get an upgrade-able type it can last years and years .
I just build this exact same system for my 3070ti thanks to this video. I'm amazed at the result. My first water build ever and it worked out great. Thanks Jay!
hows it holding up? and do you ever have to change the coolant(water) out? Or nah
This will be the reference video for when I finally do a custom loop.
Don't worry. At the time we simple plebs can afford this, there will be wireless watercooling.
@@Forke13 AHAHA that made my day
Pausing at 11:40 or so to say thanks to Jay for this step by step water cooling build. I've been with Jay for a long time, just wanted to chime in to tell him how much I appreciate all these years of experience and knowledge that we've all gained from this man. Thank you as well, to his staff! Alright, back to class.
Watched this when it came out, rewatching to prepare for implementing my first custom loop this evening!
Good luck mate.
how did it go
@@lyx9560 swimmingly! (Pun intended lol) I picked up 4 extra fittings and ended up needing all of them lol. And the ek leak tester saved my cpu, fittings on it weren’t fully tightened. $45 is a lot less than replacing that Boi or the mobo or worse! Temps on all parts came down 30C or more when gaming! Took me all weekend tho haha
@@beaureddington4039 woah.. looks like its well worth it glad ure happy w it
@@beaureddington4039 also 30C!! freezing pc!
I would have gone *Pump-> Rad 1 ->GPU* like you did, but for the hell of it (despite the mere 2 degrees) re-cool the coolant by going *GPU -> Rad 2 -> CPU -> Pump.*
24:13 a small rotating pipe cutter could work, and it leaves a smooth surface as well.
primochill has a really neat finishing bit that you can also use to shorten the tube a little.
It is a decent amount more piping and criss-crossing work to go to the Rad 2 first but I bet you could make it look pretty slick if you get it right
Yeah all he’s doing is cooling the system with the side mount rad. The top one is exhausting hot air. What a waste of a cooling system
Me knowing I will not be water-cooling any time soon and still don't even have a PC but still watching this bc it's fascinating
Same
Same
Felt this to the core
Me counting the $$$ needed for that stuff: 😭
dont worry, water cooling systems isnt as much of a thing as it looks......i been building and repairing systems for 20 years, ive never used a water cool system, its just overkill (plus they look really cool).....unless your machine has poor ventilation, or a physically overclocked cpu (which generates much more heat, hence the water cool) air cooling works just fine
This tutorial is great! Would have been interesting to see some temp and FPS results. I know the video has to stop somewhere but this setup looks so potent and nice and also, it would be fantastic to know to what to expect from this kind of a setup.
Temp and fps are almost identical to air cooling, the only noticeable difference is noise level
@@Kwirts Well you could get similar noise level for increased performance but yeah most people get it because it looks cool and is quiet
@@Kwirts Not compared to stock air coolers. Apparently its supposed to be night and day difference of cooling performance between cheap air cooling and water cooling.
@@kageshinobigames3216 yeah, obviously it would be better than stock cooling...
Water cooling is mostly for looks, other then hardware is so power hungry now. So maybe it will make a diffrance when nvidia launches a 500w gpu😂
Literally no one =
JayzTwoCents = Now this was able to go in here dry , but usually you wanna have it be slick in some way
Didnt even need to tell it to bite the pillow.
Don't split your O-ring... 😂
A good couple of minutes around that were just pure filth
I had to change out the GPU in my water-cooled rig that I built last year. It was a good time for a flush and refill. I had to do some plumbing modes, as I didn't get the GPU cooler for the new card. Having forgot a few of the steps I came back here. I did do a pressure check first, with no leaks. Then, it became time to fill. Had a challenge reaching the CPU cable to incorporate the bypass module. No better words rang through my head than, "... if you get frustrated, walk away from it and come back a little later...". Pulled the memory boards and got to the cable reasonably quickly. The coolant is on board; further leak testing will be done by running it for a few hours now.
This video is a great reference and a solid go-to that has helped me more than once. Thanks, Jay!
Hey Jay, I am pretty sure PMMA and Acrylic are the same thing.
Under-rated comment.
Edit:
Link to PMMA's Wikipedia page for those who would like it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)
It's probably a different chemical composition made to be more shatter-resistant which requires a higher temperature for melting.
PMMA is PPG that’s been polymerized by methyl methacrylate. It’s also known as acrylic. They’re all very similar.
The term "accrylic" comes from the chemical used called acrylate. PMMA is polymethyl methacrylate. It is an acrylate, so it is an accrylic. This being said, their are different ways to make acrylates, some are more rigid and resistant and some are more akin to "glass" usually because they are a glass substitute.
the final build is absolutely gorgeous, personally I'm not a fan of the hassles of custom watercooling, but Jayz always tempts me with his amazing builds
I know right? I've always wanted to own one but building it myself seems scary and expensive haha
@sen touji well if you've seen Jay's other videos he always has a drain port at the lowest part of the build for easy draining, one of 3 facts I know about water cooling haha
too bad the camera picked it up as greenish instead of clear icy light blue :/
if there was only a way to check footage on set ...
... like using digital recording
smh
Jay... THANK YOU SO MUCH for making an easy to understand guide! I'm putting my custom loop together this weekend and I definitely wouldn't have felt comfortable without this video!!
Hope it went well man :)
Have u complete?
Love this video! You can also use an air pressure gauge and pump air through the drain plug in the dry loop. If the needle doesn't move, no air leaves the loop. And if the loop is air tight, it will be water tight.
I about had a heart attack when Jay pulled all 4 ram sticks out with one hand at the same time. Lol damn son! 😂
Though it was just me 😂
@@lilgxd8534 Facts! Stressed me out lmao
This literally why I came to the comments to see if it was just me
Lol he just grabbed a fistful of ram and pulled. but me not knowing literally anything I just thought “oh this must be normal”… I don’t think it is. I won’t be doing his little trick
@@philosopherkurdmuffins9835 I'm sure it's a trick you learn after years and years of non-stop pc building to be fair xD
Most people would be horrified by the way I live my life. Because I live in a small space, I've needed to do a lot of dangerous balancing acts trying to carry out day to day tasks and it scares people sometimes, but I never break or damage anything I touch.
Jay grabbed the ram pretty confidently and thoughtfully (carefully applied pressure and finger position) even though it didn't look like it. What's safe for him is absolutely unsafe for the average person to be fair. Danger is quite relative.
Been building my first watercooled system the last few days, we getting close I'm so excited
How is it?
@@average32potatohahah, still running great
Corsair: throw together a custom watercooling loop with a little promotion please.
Jay: hold my beer.
“Whiskey” 🤫🤗
*hold my coolant
He is a drinking, PCMR, car guy.... More like hold my methanol.
Hold my res
@@masonmills1499 I think you mean ethanol as methanol is highly toxic through the breakdown into formaldehyde and formic acid.
Been building custom water loops for over 25 years and this was very well done. It’s so easy these days with these kits, as traditionally we had to “Jerry rig” so much of the loop. The only thing I would add is when you think you’re done and system is bled in this case with the inverted ports on the rad, turn on the pump and flip the whole box 180* to get the air out of the top of that inverted rad. Other than that it’s excellent. 👍
Instead of going the paper towel route, if you have extra change to spare, buy EK's Leak Tester to check for leaks
If you have quick connection fittings though, those are not particularly air-tight, unless twisted in some way.
I second that statement. I swear by my EK Leak Tester. No water goes in until it sits for 24 hours and loses no air. Never had a water leak.
@@noaran be sure to rest on something while you're testing it. It's also not necessary to do it for 24h. Usually 15min-1h is enough.
I just finished my first watercooling loop and let me tell you one thing: it will never go as planned. I studied the loop and parts for months before and still hit some bumps along the build. Only after you build at least one you will understand what you need and how to do it properly.
It depends on what you do for a living. Some people have technical skills which make bending tubes and connecting fittings for a custom water loop seem like nothing.
@@kadmus78 Not everyone is working as a plumber lmao.
@@kadmus78 I'm a civil engineer, but was not so easy to build my first custum liquid cooling loop. I didn't do hard tubes, I was looking for lower temperatures, not better looking system so I went for black soft tube.
Same, I literally just finished my first custom loop a couple hours ago, and boy did I ever run into some snags. I was as careful and meticulous as I could be, but you can’t think of what you don’t know when you are new. Fortunately, even if you have a leak, it’s consequence free so long as your system is powered down during peak testing.
This came out at the perfect time, I needed this:)
Same
Great video, thanks for making it easier for me to understand. Much appreciated.
Nice teaching tump up 👍
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Wow this was very comprehensive and timed perfectly as I'm starting to plan out a custom water cooled build
I just completed my build based on Jayz video, so thank you Jayz! I used the Corsair case and XD5, but most everything was different. Memory is water cooled with EKWB, as is the Dark Hero/5950X (with a monoblock) and a 2070 Super. Since this was my first ever custom loop water cooled system, my design was limited to one bend per tube. Passed the leak test, and using the system to write this. I was not happy with the cables off the 1050W PC Power and Cooling protruding into the drive cage, which had to be removed. So I designed a bracket for my 3-1/2" 6TB drive that takes up two of the 2.5" SSD drive brackets, and 3D printed it. Works great. I just hope it does not overheat in the cable area.
whats the case called?
"Sponsored by Corsair"
Yep, I'll be watching a 40 minutes ad, and I'm okay with that. 😂
TBH their watercooling stuff is really decent as well. The fittings are bitspower, the pumps are DDC and D5, and come with integrated (but sadly not disassemblable) reservoirs, and the whole ecosystem has fantastic lighting integration with games has a seriously promising future, though currently the games officially supported can be counted on one hand, and 2 are basically the same game (FC5 + New Dawn, Division 2, and Metro: Exodus, which is the one I experienced, and it was incredibly immersion enhancing). I'd really love to see them add more games to that list though, I think adding lighting cues to people's PCs is one of the next steps in non-VR immersion focused games. It makes their stand alone LED bar lights (The ones that stand upright on stands) actually relevant as well, which is probably badly needed for that product lol. I added some LED strips to my build from corsair as well and they play different effects than the fans, syncing up more with the RGB blocks and reservoir from what I remember. It's definitely a really cool effect lol
noctua ufo fans? ^ ^ ?
really decent - and really expensive. bitspower for example are the most expensive fittings and arent even the best.
rads are hwlabs however, which are *really* good, coolant is mayhems. frosted pmma tubes also look really good tho, i have them in my rig as well.
Just don't try to buy anything corsair...9 semi's pulled into the studio and now Jay will be "well, I need some fan's, I wonder if the 400,000 I have here will work"....just like with the cases and cases of Lian Li fans he has...nobody can get Lian Li addressable fan's, but Jay is all "Hmmm, let me see, I only have THREE MILLION to choose from"...FML
Well I'm not. Just skipping many parts. But intelligent marketing from corsair. I love corsair keyboards and PSU's but not these custom watercooling kits. Too much money to throw at.
As someone who does a lot of DIY home reno stuff, I always reccommend taking a small piece of whatever material being worked with and actively trying to mess it up as much as possible to see what it can really take
"That's why I like these fans so much" well yeah you'd better like them, its only $400 worth of fans Jay lmao. Awesome build.
Fr lmao
That’s def. $500 worth of fans, I built my system using those QL’s love them but every penny I spent hurt
Lol yeah, I would like to see them stack up against some noctua nf-f12's or if we going for top dollar nf-a12
And then pit them against those cheap Arctic fans.
I have the in-win Saturn fans in my water cooled build and they’re amazing 78 cfm and 3.12 mm/ h2o of static pressure
This was really helpful. I’m definitely trying this soon when they eventually make a water block for the MSI 3080ti Gaming Trio.
If they do
Watching this at 0.5 speed, it's like Jay is blazed out of his mind. I can't stop laughing.
Homie frieedddd 😂😂😂
Fucking hell, man... Too funny! xD
1.25x Speed, JayzOnAdderall
. 75 speed is healthy speed
You sir, are a god amongst men for saying this.
I know this video is old, and you probably won't see it, but I just wanted to say thank you for what you do man. I'm well versed enough that I know 99% of the stuff you talk about, but that 1% is humbling.
You're obviously older than I am, and have been doing it a bit longer than I have, but when you do it a lot, it becomes second nature.
And yet, here I am, still learning little tricks I didn't know about.
I watch your videos because they're entertaining to me, but entertaining AND educational, it's just amazing to me man.
That pump reservoir combo that you can put on a fan mount is AMAZING. I really didn't want to drill into my case.
Most can be mounted to fans
Some times you have no choice though. I want to mount my radiator externally, but the case I have doesn't provide any pass troughs. So there's no alternative to taking the back panel to the drill press to make mounting holes and all that.
What makes corsair's especially friendly is it has a rail system to adjust the mount.
@@joshua41175 Yeah that's what I was thinking too. Looks sooooo much nicer and more flexible than the mount that came with my EK Res
Of course you release this like 2 weeks after my first attempt at water cooling.
Feels for u man
Lol 100% same over here man ^^
How did it turn out for you tho?
@@lordofstrandhill Pretty good, all things considered. Ran into some space issues but that was more lack of planning. GPU and CPU are now icy cool, but the tubes sometimes sag and kink. I may have to recut some runs to make that stop happening, but overall, not bad.
How did yours go?
What do you mean by attempt? Did you not complete it? Do you need help with part of it?
@@PubstarHero Sounds great and very successful to me 👍🏻
It took me wayyy longer to realize than i thought coz i ran every day into another minor difficulty, but in the end it turned out to be actually pretty neat 👌🏻
THO, im actually unsure about whether 360+280 Rad space will be able to keep it cold enough in Summer, + im still waiting for fitting Custom PCB GPU Blocks to release/be in Stock, as the one i'm using right now is from Byksi and i dont really think thats the best possible solution, it just was the only one i was able to choose from, as there is only one other one from Alphacool which has 4-5 weeks delivery time and another one from ekwb that neither has a product picture nor a release date so far ^^ :/
Going to get the ekwb as soon as it will be available i guess 🤷🏻♂️
In the process of changing the Block im gonna do some other changes that i realized would be useful after my first few weeks of practical usage of the system, like adding another inline temp sensor & a aquacomputer flow sensor & maaany other minor changes 👌🏻
For a split second when I first saw the video title, I thought Jay made a RUclips video about waterboarding. I thought he was going to educate us on the finer points of interrogation.
Im not a complete beginner but I've been considered a custom loop for a while and just didn't want to mess it up. Thanks for the tips!
OMG!!! A 39 minute video!!!! What did we do to deserve this?!?!?! P.S love your videos jay, they really help me relax after a tiring and stressful day!
I dont know why but that little ramp for the basement sure cleans up the aesthetic of the interior of that case...
Agreed, Corsair really did their thing with the 5000 series cases!
It looks gorgeous with the water loop in that space like Jay did.
Alrighty, I just wanna say thanks so much for this video! I just built my first ever custom pc and decided to water cool it with hard tubing like a idiot, but your vid helped me get through it and I’m really happy with how it came out! It’s by no means perfect but it works, and it doesn’t leak, thank you guys so much!
I love the references back to a vehicles cooling system. It is ridiculously similar, and you absolutely nailed it with the comments on temperature difference. Engines prefer around a 180° F running temp. Nothing like that in a PC lol
I want to try a custom water loop on my next build but I think the only thing missing from yours is custom sleeved cables. I did my own on my last build and while it's PITA, the end results look great.
what do you mean by custom sleeved cables? sorry i have a lot to learn about pcs lol ive done some work inside mine but i usually just game w it
*JayzTwoCents vid notification*
*sees video 40 minutes long*
"Awwwwh yeah, time to watch this with snacks in my lap"
i watched while casually checking on Eve Online market. lol
Also a good way to pass time at work when you don't need to pay attention. Thanks Jay !
It was a really informative video, tbh.
I've only build 2 custom water loops so far, but I found that using the EKWB air pump/pressure gage was very useful in both testing your loops with pressure but also useful in finding leaks without adding a liquid. By the way Jay, those 90's are super tight!
I use thernaltake mandrels for my bends. They sell a kit with mandrels of varying angles and they can make really beautiful, tight bends.
@@BigLifeWithLitlJay I haven't seen those. I used the EKWB ones and found the angle radius a little big, making it hard to fit tight corners. I'm wondering if by using the larger 12-16 PETG tubing might be to blame...
@M_Sheard is this the one you mean? www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-leak-tester
@@ChatGTA345 yes. It works great. You can tell right away if you have a leak as the dial will show pressure loss. I'd wait about 20 mins to make sure. Also, side note, with the loop pressurized, you will also ensure good connections on the fittings. If you are curious, pump up the pressure into the "red" area and you will encounter what happens when your connections fail...
@@ChatGTA345 oh, and also, if you have a small leak, a great way to find it is by using a little dish soap in a water bottle and check each fittings one by one like you would find a leak in a bike tube tire.
I want to say thank you, Jay. I have been building PCs for 20+ years and PC gaming/upgrading for almost 25. I am currently building a brand new system (intel 12700K, RTX 3090 ti, etc.) fully water cooled for the very first time. Instead of hard tubing, though, I opted for soft tubing. But I priced out buying all of the components I needed versus getting the Corsair Hard Tube kit and getting the fittings and tubing and cost less that way. I added a 280 radiator as well as the included 360 and a water block for the 3090 ti. But this video was everything I could possibly need. So thanks for the work you did.
Thanks Jay. I went from not considering water cooling to wanting to do water cooling.
Your video is clear and easy to understand. Keep up the great work.
Hey Jay. Currently working on putting together my third build. This time I am considering a custom water loop. My first two builds were restricted by budget...and lets face it, fear of custom loops..lol. Thanks again for a great video. I have been subscribed for only a few months but I love your content. Keep up the great work!!
I appreciate this content. I'm actually doing my very first custom loop and I inadvertently found out in basically making the editing rig you made for Phill. Been watching a lot of your content to figure out if I have all the stuff I need before I get to actually tearing down my old PC and moving it into the 719 and making the loop.
It's been nearly four months, but I finally got over the fear of breaking my GPU after having had all my parts since the beginning of December and put it together. Water loop is working. Just need to finish leak testing and then put the rest of the system together. Mostly just wiring at this point, but also the HDD cages for the mass storage.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM how’d it turn out?
@@drmememachine pretty good honestly. It's still running and works well. Like I mentioned, it's basically a mirror of the one he made for Phill so you can look at that if you want an idea of the appearance.
just wanted to say thanks.
learned from you, custom watercooled a pc 5 years ago now. still going strong on a 5ghz overclock
Awsome tutorial and thank you for taking the time to put it together. I'm looking to do my first pc build with custom hard line water cooling across cpu and gpu and so your video has been a massive help. Looking forward to watching more of your videos now as this was the first I'd seen. This is what I love about the internet, even though your in the Americas and I'm in the UK I can still get to watch your content :)
Thanks for your detailed shows about a subject that all computer builders have to deal with. Keep up the great work! Cooling electronic hardware challenge is here to stay.
Thank you for this guide! I'm currently stating to water cool my build myself for the first time. Super glad you released this video when I was about to start! Allowed me to find the right tools and properly approach this project! Thank you Jay!
I'm not meaning to criticize, but am I the only one noticing the huge air pocket on the cpu block..? That's no bueno lol. That section of the CPU will get very hot... Def want to make sure you get stuff like that out. Overall though, I loved the video. You wrapped it together very well and gave clear instructions. Really appreciate the effort you put into this and thought you did well with the design. Though I would have chose to go from the GPU to the top rad, then to the CPU and back to the reservoir. Nice job overall. One of the best informal tutorials I've seen to date. Thanks for the content. Best of luck! Cheers brotha!
>"I teamed up with Corsair..."
>"Today's video is sponsored by EVGA..."
All ASUS hardware as well KEKW
takes all the paychecks
No no no... Corsair are his FRIENDS he has teamed up with. EVGA are the sponsors ;)
"There is such a thing as going too small."
Thankfully those are not ideals my girlfriend lives by.
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I see Jayztwocents I click..... simple 👌🏼
I bought the Corsair hardline bending kit. The saw was hard to get straight clean cuts with so after 2 cuts I went to the garage and started using my 2 in. Mini Bench Top Cut-Off Saw from Harbor Freight that I use for ammo reloading. You get straight and clean cuts every time. It's like 30-40 dollars and worth it if you can't stand having uneven cuts and made rounding the ends even easier.
The mandrel they supply for the inside of the pipe needs to be longer as well. If you plan on doing more than simple 90 bends, I recommend buying a longer one but for my first custom loop it worked.
21:17 "Remember, this is not a car." *Builds a computer in a car engine*
You can tell Jay was sponsored by Corsair when he isn't complaining about the spaghetti mess Corsair calls wires
and he's not using an EK leak tester
Unless you are building custom loops for a living then you dont need a leak tester imo. And if you are then you dont need to watch a beginners guide.
I wanted to see that backside the whole time! What a goddamn mess it must have been with 10 QL fans, bringing in 2 cables each and then requiring at least 1 commander pro and lighting node extra in combination with the already installed fan controller and lighting node.
@@Jousten16 And no hard drives
Yes he was that is obviously but what’s wrong with it, he keeps the stuff, built it in another rig, sell or give to anyone else, make a video out of it. Done. This is his job. Everybody needs a job. Good Content and explained very thoroughly! Thanks @Jay
I love this, this is just AMAZING, I enjoyed every second of this video and it is a long video. I appreciate the guide a lot, maybe make a video of a guide on how to maintain and change the coolant inside the pump and the tubes and radiators, that can be helpful. Thanks Jayz, Keep up the good work
wow, just. the space saved by water cooling plus the temperature save is just out of this world, ill try it for my next build.
10:29 scuse me while I yoink out all 4 ram sticks at once. Bonkers
Right!? 🤣
Me who is to broke to afford a PC searching for this video by name.
me too
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I will probably never do a water cooled system, yet I watched the entire thing without skipping. Just so cool to see how it’s done!
I literally have planned my build knowing it’ll never be built till the day I get a job😂😭
Built my 1st imaginary pc over 20 years ago. Dreams become reality. Be about your purpose and work hard.
Man I've been waiting for this for so longggg. Can't wait to build my pc this summer
Thank you for this guide. Much of what has stopped me from liquid cooling was just, not knowing how. And when I google it, all the sites make it seem so scary. But knowing I won't fry it by leaving it off, and how simple it really is makes me excited to do it.
I do have a question though, what did you use in between the Y-fitting and the 90angle fitting?
Thank you for this video, i am going to be building a new rig soon and am considering a custom loop very similar to this set up. You answered a ton of my questions and the explanations were fantastic. Thank you very much!
you cant make it longer, but you can make it shorter.
story of my life
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Is that what your pp said
But size doesn't matter.......nvm
Beautiful build and really good tutorial. I would like to ask one question, why didnt you use the motherboard water block and watercool that as well?
Probably the most valid sponsor… gonna definitely buy from them 👁👄👁
Great video; however to me the scariest part of the process is the tube bending/measuring especially when you have multiple bends. I would have liked to have seen that portion of the build more in depth especially for a beginner.
Corsair: "Hey, could you do an educational ad for us?"
Jay: "Sure, but I'm also gonna talk about my iFixit kit."
Corsair: "Ok, but keep it short and no explosions!"
Me: :´(
Jay, I still remember and have an aquarium pump, external radiator mounting brackets etc! Now I see corsair did it the right way but in case things go the wrong way there are still aquarium stuff XD !
Yeah you can hardly call this DIY cause back in the day (early 2000's) we used to have to use car radiators with aquarium pumps and the blocks were just a drilled through copper blocks. The industry has changed a lot from those days.
Exactly!
A brilliant friend of mine did a unorthodox mounting of all of his computer components too his bedroom wall with L brackets and whatnot. He had all those coolant lines running over a span of about five square feet and it looked really cool to be mounted on high of a bedroom wall. And since the bedroom is so small he had a window unit that was adjusted at 65° Fahrenheit so it kept the system pretty cool. He believed that a case over a period of time isn't the way to cool a computer because it's all confined instead his mentality was a spread the components out so the heat isn't all concentrated in a small space.
Wow Jay amazing job! It's a bit of work but well worth it. Looks super cool and neat with the rigid tubing. It's amazing that PCs have become plumbing jobs. Mario from Super Smash would be proud!
Why not Mario from Donkey Kong or Super Mario Bros?
@@HaiTharImDavid All plumbers named Mario :)))
I feel it would just be so satisfying to pour regular coolant in then add the dye after the system is full so you can see it travel through.
the moment when Jay pulls the ram cards all in one go in a handful
I once put together a really slick build with a bunch of parallel diagonal 45-degree tubes. It worked really well.
Love watching Jay do this stuff but to be honest don't ever think I'll have a system where watercooling it would be worth the money rather than spending it on something else.
My OCD just kicks in when I see the tube on the left side under the reservoir is not 90 degrees straight up but slightly tilted
it's been a hot minute since you posted this, jay! 😄
Now it's not hot because it is water cooled XD
Dang. This really helps conceptualize the whole thing. I did the easy water cooled CPU which is already pre connected to the radiator I bought. This was 4 years ago. Build is still going strong. It’s not translucent - I heard a lot of advice on not doing that on your first build and that was invaluable as it took me quite a long time to get it all together (about 8 hours for my first pc). Definitely thinking about the second one being translucent like this to support an even nicer PC when I am ready for that
Jay- "Hey what theme do you want for your ballin' gaming PC?"
"I am Sub-Zero"
"Yeah that's awesome but what theme are you looking for?"
"I am Sub-Zero"
"Ok... say no more"
I've just added to cart the water cooling components Jay used. That price Holy f**************
how much?
Bro u can't just write a comment about the price without actually telling the price... that's against the law!
@@b3ntastic In canadian dollars, it's over 1K for a dual radiator setup. A single rad setup in canadas currency is about 800 bucks! It adds up.
@@SpacedAug That's a lot of maple syrup.
They sell a kit you can buy for around $500 USD for a 1 radiator setup.
Great tutorial! I just have a question: which is the difference between installing the 12 & 14mm tubes? I mean, both have the same internal diameter so is it only an aesthetics difference?
its a fitting and ascetics difference. a 14mm fitting wont work for a 12mm tube. he has another video from like 2015-2016 where he explains this in more detail
I want to thanks for all those Watercooling videos - helped me building my first full water cooling build.