The Complete PC Hardline Bending and Installation Guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I show you all the aspects of creating a hardline water cooling loop in your PC, from the tools you'll need to how to bend and chamfer the edges of your piping in preperation for installing in your PC. Finally we look at how to measure and plan out your loop.
In the next video I'll show you a neat way to check your system for leaks before you fill with liquid!
PARTS USED IN THIS VIDEO:
Thermaltake Pacific Hard Tube Bending Kit - amzn.to/2GQvVR1
3 x EK HD PETG Tube 12/16mm 500mm (2 pieces) - amzn.to/2EePugC
20 x EK HDC 16mm Rigid Tube Fitting Nickel - amzn.to/2q1nQyf
HEAT GUN - amzn.to/2HyM8IE
Parts used for this build:
CASE:
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Tempered Glass Anthracite Grey - amzn.to/2Efqh5n
Phanteks RGB LED Strip Starter Combo Set - amzn.to/2q0FVwp
POWER SUPPLY:
Corsair AX860 Platinum Power Supply - amzn.to/2GO61NB
CableMod C-Series AXi, HXi & RM Cable Kit White - amzn.to/2GP327K
CPU/MOTHERBOARD/RAM/STORAGE/ GRAPHICS
Intel Core i7 8700K - amzn.to/2q2RJyf
G.Skill Trident Z RGB F4-3200C16Q-32GTZR 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 - amzn.to/2EfObOm
ASUS ROG Maximus X Code Motherboard - amzn.to/2GO6YWb
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC 11GB - amzn.to/2H2rcJv
Samsung 960 PRO NVMe M.2 2TB SSD - amzn.to/2uCzo0s
COOLING:
Corsair ML120 PRO RGB 120mm Mag Lev PWM Fan 3 Pack w/ Node Pro - amzn.to/2q3IbTA
3 x Corsair ML120 Pro 120mm Premium Magnetic Levitation Fan Black - amzn.to/2uDKGSl
EK Full Cover EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix Backplate - Nickel - amzn.to/2GRFhvN
EK Full Cover VGA Block EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix - Nickel - amzn.to/2GIUkYP
Arctic Silver 5 (3.5g) - amzn.to/2pZLr3c
Arctic Silver ArctiClean (60ml Kit) - amzn.to/2uGmJtL
Phanteks RGB LED Adapter Cable - amzn.to/2GR5NFO
Cooler Master Universal Vertical VGA Card Holder + PCIe Riser - amzn.to/2pYDZo8
EK CryoFuel Premix 900mL Coolant Navy Blue - amzn.to/2pZKYOF
EK Supremacy EVO CPU Waterblock Nickel - amzn.to/2H6FzNd
EK Twin 3mm LED Kit - Ultra UV
EK HD PETG Tube 12/16mm 500mm (2 pieces) - amzn.to/2EePugC
Thermaltake Pacific Hard Tube Bending Kit - amzn.to/2GQvVR1
20 x EK HDC 16mm Rigid Tube Fitting Nickel - amzn.to/2q1nQyf
2 x EK AF Pass-Through G1/4 Nickel - amzn.to/2H3HzFL
EK AF 2 Way Ball Valve G1/4 Nickel - amzn.to/2Gwy0hJ
EK CoolStream PE 360 Triple Radiator - amzn.to/2GuDFZu
EK CoolStream PE 240 Dual Radiator - amzn.to/2GO8ckf
EK RES X3 250 RGB Reservoir - amzn.to/2uJYn2d
EK-XTOP Revo D5 PWM Pump Black - amzn.to/2pZUktO
3 x EK AF Angled 90 Degree G1/4 Nickel - amzn.to/2uJvbby
EK CSQ G1/4 Plug with EK Badge Nickel - amzn.to/2q1sQTT
EK HFB 10mm High Flow Barb Black - amzn.to/2H7r4Zy
EK AF Extender 12mm M-M G1/4 Nickel
EK-AF T-Splitter 3F G1/4 - Nickel
EK-UNI Vertical 120mm Pump Bracket
MUSIC: Liquicity Records
Absolutely fantastic tutorial on high end water cooling. Much better than any other I've seen with all the finer points covered. well done. Keep 'em coming.
Thanks a lot Geoffrey. I really appreciate the feedback.
Just about all the details of this build are covered in my other videos. And I’m about to build another rig for my wife and give her my delidded 8700K. 8086K going in mine so I’ll do some comparisons.
Also going to do a complete overclocking guide soon too.
Looking forward to your OC guide. I'm interested in things like CPU cache frequency - what does that do?
I’ll cover all that soon. Cache frequency affects how quickly the data stored in the cache can be accessed. Less overall impact on system speed than core clock.
5 years later, still invaluable information!
Thank you for explaining in the detail the fittings and getting the lines into them! It's 4 thousand videos on hard lines and your the only one who explains actually connecting the fitting to the tube!
Finally a guide that holds your hand through and through the most delicate steps in installing open loops!! I no longer have doubts before saving up for this beautiful project!!!
I’ve recently built my first rig. Spend close to £4K. Now a few weeks later I’m wanting to do a custom loop. Very helpful and practical advise. Wish me luck! 👍🏽
Enjoy it!
Thank you for this video! I've been building PCs since the 90's, and water-cooling them since the early 2000's. I've got my first hardline kit to install next week, so I will definitely use the pointers in this video as I am pretty sure I would have messed up an O-ring or two by inserting the tubing for test fits during the install process.
Great tutorial, best I've seen in ages !!!
I always find myself coming back to this video for some info I forgot. You did a great job doing this guide.
This is by far the best single video to help me when I got stuck with my tubing. and trust me, I've seen A LOT. thumbs up man. i usually never comment on youtube, but you deserve it
That’s great! Glad it helped. Thanks for the comment :)
Just about to built my first hard line loop, this was literally the best video I have seen. Thank you!
I agree bout order all my parts
how did it go?
Thank you for this tutorial. Before watching this video I was extremely intimidated by doing my first hardline custom loop but now that I've seen a very well made tutorial I'm not as scared to try it for my next build. I'm definitely going to use that bending kit to aid me in the building of the loop.
Fantastic! That’s exactly what I was hoping when I made this video. It seems scary but it’s so rewarding eye. It’s done :)
Finalllly somebody did a video on the fittings. Seriously looked for a long time on the hardline fittings. All the tutorials just breezed over that. Also loved the music, sounds like its from Ghost in the Shell
34:00 Thanks so much for showing the O-ring / locking ring installation I almost installed everything without adding the O-rings!!
Planning My First Hard-line loop in a shift X with 5600x (GPU later on when they are more available)
Done a couple of soft loops in the past, but going hard on new build. This guide has been invaluable. Feel so much more confident now. Thank you!
This is the best tubing review on TH-cam. I’m doing my first hardline set up and this was invaluable. Thanks a lot man really appreciate it.
Done soft tubing for years - now is my time to replace it... going with hard tubes... thanks for the guide!
A tip to add to this, if you have multiple tight bends in succession where you cant use the mandrels. You can lay out a smooth surface, any texture risks imprinting it in the tube. And make your bends carefully by hand, dont make them too tight. And use the flat surface to ensure your nends are perpendicular
thanks alot for the vid! about to build my first hard tubing build in a week. this got me prepped for it cheers
Bending Kit. Perfect. Bends. Every. Time. Also, Monsoon's video for their bending kit is ace. Also, Primochill Rigid Finishing Bit.
Best tutorial I’ve seen yet. I feel a lot more confident now. Thank you
Thank you for this. I was having trouble finding a guide that actually went over the email details like how the washers and o rings came in to play as well as basically explaining like I was 5. Gave me the confidence to give this a go when next gen gpus release
Awesome. Good luck with it!!
@@boostedmedia thanks! I actually jumped the gun and ordered the 2070s founders edition(I guess those overclock really well) and ordered all the necessary parts to build my loop so if I don't run in to any major issues I should be up and running on water within 10 days or so! Going for a Seattle Seahawks themed build with my green/black cablemod cables and a mix of blue/green LEDs and acid green(but clear-ish to prevent major gunking issues) liquid.
Thanks for this guide! Going to be doing mine as soon as my reservoirs arrive.
I’ve been searching for awhile for a guide that actually shows someone inserting the tubes into the fittings. I was wondering if you had to take any special consideration into spacing and positioning in order to get the tubes in place after shaping them. Thank you so much for actually showing that part! Most vids just show how to bend and then just skip to the finished loop and it drove me insane!
It drove me insane too which is why I made the video. Glad it helped.
Thanks man. Been watercooling since 2004, but I've never dabbled with hard-lines. I might just make the jump with my next kick at the can.
Awesome. I got in to it around the same time but had always used soft tunes until now. It’s certainly a lot of work and complicated things drastically but it’s so rewarding when it’s finished!
Nice tutorial! I was exactly looking for this. This tutorial is almost like I was there, :) holding the cord of the heat gun and having a look over your shoulder... way better than some of the
"pro-channels". Thanks for sharing!
Glad you found it helpful mate. Thanks for the comment.
Amazing video, you're going in detail for each step and talking about all the things that you should not forget when bending the tubes 👌
That gotta be the best tube bending tutorial I've ever seen and I've seen every video of singularity computer, ggf events and jayztwocents but they never did such a complete guide on tube bending
Thanks. Glad it helped
Great and detailed tutorial.......loved it, especially about the measuring and fitting of the tubes.....subbed before this, but just looked at your channel. Dam!!! You are into everything son.....gaming, BMW’s the works. I am just starting to gather gear for water cooled rig.......I am quite intimidated about the leaks and maintenance. Built my very first computer in 2008 with Thermaltake Speedo case and i7 920 cpu......currently working on an all white build and desk top set up. View 71 snow edition with seasonic 1050w PS. Creative labs X7 DAC snow edition, Orsair k70 SE2, white edition,Yamaha HS 8 monitor speakers, long ways to go yet on internals, but will get there. Really trying to get the Galax 1080ti, or 2080ti HOF white graphics card, but no luck. Love what you doing so far, I have a few months to go before I can build. Will be building a sim rig based upon fanatec Podium 2 on to the Sim Lab P1 black edition reviewed by Barry Roland of Sim Racing Garage. Should be done with everything by the fall of 2019. Any help on that GPU by Galax would be greatly appreciated.
Your the most highly underrated person I’ve ever seen. When I came I assumed you had around 2 million subs! Keep it up!
Btw sorry if this comment is a bit late...
Appreciated mate. We’ll hopefully get there with the subs eventually.
Just about to start my first hardline build - just what I needed mate, thanks!
Glad it helped. Thanks for the comment :)
Thank you, thank you so much. I am new to hardline and I'm making my first custom loop and your video is the most helpful that I have seen. I also used your guide to overclocking to overclock my 8700K. You make it very simple and understandable and thank you very much for that.
Wow this is a great a guide. Have been looking for proper hardline tutorials for some time. Did subscribe to your channel because of this video. Please continue with practical pc-build guides -
Greetings and Love from Iceland
Spectacular work, I hope the third part, greetings from Argentina!
Thanks a lot!
A brilliant video, one of the best I have seen. Just like having a personal lesson in water cooling pipe bending. Many thanks for posting the video!
So detailed and gives a realistic look at how to step through the process. Thanks, man!
I'm in the research phase of an ambitious hardline tubing project in the newly released GEEEK G1. It would be my first water cooling project, so I'm approaching cautiously.
I have read that for very small cases, acrylic tubing is recommended due to the potential for PETG tubing to melt-? Any suggestions or thoughts on this? Would I still be able to follow this process with acrylic? Thanks again!
Water temp needs to be kept below 38C when using PETG (which it should be anyway). But none of the systems I’ve built with PETG have ever had an issue.
Great video, Im about to do my own custom loop system with EKWB for the first time here in the next month. This video has just helped me a ton to learn this system and install! Thanks!
This had a lot of info that helped. Especially the soapy water to the fittings. I couldn't figure out why it was so hard to get my pieces in.
SiN Loud That’s common sense. Spit on it and ram it in! 😂😂😂😂😂
Bro absolutely 💯 great tutorial in watercooling, with hardline tubings. Thanks 😊
That is a f....... good JOB man ! I wish to see this video before my Corsair Hydro X first build, then I will probably need 3 PETG pipes less and cut time at half. Thank you.
Great how to, got me on track for mine thank you. One suggestion - take both the O-rings (not called washers, weirdo ;-)) out while you trial fit your bends and only put them in when you are ready to fill.
That water in the fitting idea is great. Had a hard time shoving them in
Yet finish the video but will be watching this a few times to help me with first watercooling biuld. Well first rigid.
For those who don't want to do bends, but also keep it on a budget, check out Bykski and Barrow. Great parts for the money, and you can get 90 degree fittings, and even pre-bent tubes.
Well done. I am about to do this on my high end PC. Thank you.
Thanks for the video. It was super helpful. I'll use all your tips in an upcoming build
Welcome to the water cooling university. Great stuff!
This is really good. I've watched a few videos on bending from other youtubers and I guess you can learn something from all of them. After watching yours just now, I'm feeling a little more brave. I don't build several systems a month like Jay or some of the others so I'm not quite as confident in free handing everything like he does. Your rig looks great. I want symmetry and parallel lines, but I like the loops too. I don't like too many rotaries, and Like another commentator already stated, I'm going to try to pull some of mine out before I get started. I'm working in the evolve x, I have a card in the vertical position with a 420 in the front and a 280 in the top. It's tight in that box! I also have the fat tubes, and I thought a 200ml Swiftech Maelstrom pump/res combo would look really good in there. It does, but it barely fits. I can't use the two ports on top for a fitting whatsoever. So I have to go with the inlet that's right next to the outlet in the bottom front. I want to be creative in routing the tubes and that's what I was looking for I think when i started watching your vid. Thanks for your tips, you covered things well even for a second time custom loop build of mine.
Good luck with it. Just take your time. It’s not as difficult as it looks.
I'm working on mine and this makes me want to get rid of a lot of rotary 90s. Well even with the 90s I have I'm still looking at 2 bends in every run. I just really want straight vertical and level horizontal runs everywhere, essentially avoiding anything that looks organic.
Thanks for the tutorial, I'm late to the party but will soon switch to hard tubings.
Very well done thank you for sharing. For Future you and others search this little tool right here, PrimoChill RFB Rigid Tubing Finishing Bit, makes cleaning and cutting those angled ends as well as trimming to length a breeze. You can either chuck it in a drill or turn it by hand, great little tool...
Great video, thanks so much for posting this. I'm about to try my hand at hard tubing for the first time, and this was extremely educational.
Let us know how it goes!
@@boostedmedia It went great (for my first time). No leaks. It's not perfect looking, but I'm pretty happy with the results for my first try. Thanks again for the great tutorial!
Congrats mate! How satisfying is it after the nerves when everything works!
@@boostedmedia VERY satisfying when you turn on the pump for the first time and water doesn't spray out of the fittings. :)
Very nice and clean work mate! Congratz
Thank you so much for this vid! exactly what i was looking for
You’re welcome mate. Glad it’s a help.
Great idea to bring the details informative thanks
Well done mate!!! I just learnt a lot and by far best video on bending!!!! Rig looks nice btw.
Thanks a lot. :)
Wow, an ACTUAL Guide. This will give me confidence to try :D
Let us know how you go :)
Very helpful. Thanks.
That's the good news. The bad news is: O-ring, O-ring, O-ring!
Haha yep. It’s a bad habit I’m trying to break. Grew up with British parents who said washer instead of o-ring and it’s stuck.
I had a drink every time he said washer instead of o-ring and now I can't stand up...
Nice video. Doing my first hard loop.
Have fun!!!
Amazing tutorial! thanks a bunch man!!!!
No worries :)
avoid o-ring tears by using plumbers grease to lube the o-ring, also very important to do in all water systems
Great tutorial -- exactly what I was looking for -- thanks!
exactly this is tutorial I was looking for.
Glad you found it :)
Thank you for a very good guide to help hard-line beginners like myself! However, I must say that as a retired machinist, I cringe when I hear someone call an O-ring a "washer". They are two very different things and one can't do the job of the other. In the references regarding the fittings, those are in fact, "O-Rings", not washers.
I found your advice and suggestions to avoid bends that are too close to the ends of the tubing particularly helpful! I wonder if I needed to have a bend in close proximity to the fitting end, if I were to first make the bend I needed, and then cut the tubing. That may keep the final cut end from being to distorted for a good seal... I may try that if I find a need for that kind of bend.
I've been making all my computers with soft tubing and I found that my Corsair 780T case looked very good with the PrimoChill 5/8 OD x 3/8 ID white tubing. Therefore, I'm going to be buying the PrimoChill 1/2in. OD Rigid PETG Tube.
I honestly don't like the clear tubing rigs I've seen because their coolant colors are either too translucent and don't look very good under RGB lighting, or, if they're using an opaque colored coolant, the color begins to breakdown after a while. Reds begin to appear brown and greens, blues, purples, begin to lose their pigments and tend to turn into a less than aesthetically appealing shade of their original color.
Even white coolant loses it's 'sharpness' and in the end, I found if the tubing is color that you like, then you should always go for the tubing color rather than choosing a clear tube and coloring the coolant, but that's me.
I have just finished buying just about everything inside my case so I can completely upgrade my system. I had an MSI Z97 MPower MAX AC mobo, i7-4790K CPU, GTX 1070 GPU, G-Skill RipJaws DDR3 3300MHz (2 x 16GB), and a Corsair 1000i PSU. It was all installed in my Corsair 780T (white) case.
Now I have an ASUS ROG Maximux XII Formula, i7-10700K CPU, RTX 2070 GPU, T-Force Xtreem DDR4 3600 MHz (2 x 16), and a EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2, 1300W PSU. My cooling system was a Swiftech H220 semi-closed loop system with a 240mm radiator on the top of the case and a 120mm x 1.250" radiator in the front of the case (all copper rads). All setup with push/pull fan configuration.
However, I just found that my old Switech H220 pump is quitting on me. In fact, 1.5 weeks ago, my system wouldn't even start up. After I did the paperclip test on the PSU, I surmised that the CPU died. It was then that I decided to do this big (and expensive) upgrade. Tonight, I finally put in the motherboard, CPU, and memory sticks. My RTX 2070 hasn't arrived yet so I put in my GTX 1070 card. I pressed the "Start" button, and nothing happened...
I was upset and the one thing that I always suspected, was the PSU. Even though it past the paperclip test, running one fan doesn't take nearly the draw that running a full system does. Corsair created these PSU with cables that were specifically for the unit and some of the heavier cables, (24-pin and GPU cables), have capacitors in them.
I try testing them with a DVMM but I can't tell if the motherboard's 8-pin cable or the 24-pin cable the problem using that meter because the capacitors build and bleed and change the continuity in such a way that it just gets confusing. I think the problem is probably one of those cables but without a replacement cable handy, I can't test it.
I knew I was going to buy a 1300w PSU sooner or later anyway, so I ordered one by EVGA and hope the cables are better than that proprietorship crap Corsair does. After ordering the PSU tonight, I then tested the Swiftech pump, and it seems to be quitting about 45 seconds after it starts. I can't see that as the reason for the system not starting unless it's shorting in the pump wiring and causing the mobo to fail the startup.
At any rate, I'll be tearing down that pump to look it over and I may try cleaning it. Still, I needed to go with a more powerful cooling system so I'm thinking I'll buy the Thermaltake Pacific PR22-D5. The Corsair pumps don't move much water very quickly. They're OK for a smaller system, but I want something that'll circulate at least 1000 G/ph.
Thanks again for tutorial!.
Rich
Never done this before but that last bend there seems very hard to do? You need to be very precise so your 90 degree bend is right over the fitting for the pump. I would imagine you would had to pencil it out exactly and then bend it precisely on the marker? If you bend it just a few millimeters to the right you would end up with a skewed fitting. But he seemed to just eyeball it? Scared to try this now haha.
It just takes practice. After a while you can eyeball most bends and then just make small tweaks
superb tutorial ive subscribed great work
loved the video brother, well done
Very good tutorial man, a lot better than some bigger names like JayZ2Cents etc.
Thanks mate. Doing my best.
Dethalis ppcs buld club mod here with a friendly suggestion...You should give a primochill rfb a try... So much easier and nicer chamfer
Excellent tutorial thanks. Nice clean build too
Fantastic guide, thanks !!
Motorbikes, drum and bass and hardline tubing.. sounds like my house
Lol!
So helpful! Thank You!
Thanks a lot very helpful
Can you use a blow dryer in place of a heat gun?
Ggwp, i think u save my brain, I used 10 tubes for first time...
My first watercooled system is too fk difficult, I chose to put 3 radiators in a single build, a d5 pump and a WB for CPU and GPU and the tubes need minimum 4 bands, my brain is on 🔥 so thank you man
I wish I saw your video before I did my bends
Words of caution: The pipe cutter tool will scratch the cut end of the tube. I place a small piece of tape on my cut line and then use the cutter. The tube with the tape rubs up against the rollers of the cutter but you'll get no scratches
Excellent tip!
Thank you so much
To get the remaining liquid out you can use a wet and dry hover to pull the rest of liquid left
+Boosted Media
That’s a good idea!!
agree with every thing u did...love the vid,,,, but lubing the pipe fittings right as u go to put the pipes in, with soapy water, wont that put soap particles into ur systems loops?
It’s not enough to be of concern, and avoids accidentally tearing the orings
Thank you
Great Teacher!!! =D😅👍
Liquicity is love liquicity is life
Truth!
Helped a lot. Thank you for the video. :)
You’re welcome :)
Anyone else think he had the heat gun on when he was demonstrating for first few mins until he actually turned it on 😂😂😂😂
good tutorial , this video should got more views!
Your comment should more likes
miss a word :((
@@user-my9tb6bz7b I kid 😝
Good detailled Tutorial
appreciate the video!
Mate.. great video of you demostrating this.can you send me a link to your video on leak test and Final build.. please and thank you.the fittings are expensive..like 25 bucks for 1..I seen on Amazon .I did see fittings for 20 bucks pack of 6.
What is that measuring thing you had. The one for the fitting
thanks a million mate
You’re welcome! I hope this helped!
cool video, very useful!
Thanks very much :)
Nice tutorial !!
Thanks :)
Great video
Wonderful tutorial sir!
Thanks Alex.
nice one mate
Hello Bro I'm willing to this But the link into the Hot Air Gun is not already available what kind Hot air Gun is in it??
fucking make it look so easy. I'm struggling bad on the measurements.
are the two bottom fittings where the coolant will be drained?
It drains from the valve in the bottom of the case. Shown here: th-cam.com/video/D9SnOxiVjDo/w-d-xo.html
Could I use my clear cooling water for wetting the fitting bevore putting the tube in or should I better use the soapy water
Question i got bitspower nonchamfer 14mm brass tubing with 14mm ek fittingbi did test fit i could get it in i use the deburr and chamfer tool i got it in jut messed gasket up and when I get it in and the fiyyinh put together I can grab it and pull it out its not easy but its not hard how do I know how chamfer pr deburr yo do