I have now removed the old hard tubing and replaced with the soft version, so much easier to work with and it has provided a lot more clearance for a bigger GFX card. The lighting is also much better due to less bends and a continous length of tubing. This took me around 4 hours…
I’ve been using the hard tubing for my water cooling set up for around 3 years and while it looks good I have realised that it is a pain when it comes to making changes to the PC. With soft tubing I can move the pump, have a slightly long GFX card installed and its…
It’s been a long time since my last post and I did actually finish this project many months ago back in October 2018 however I’ve been busy with stuff so am updating today. Everything turned out fine and the PC has been working without issues, I refilled the coolant as it was a little murky…
After spending some time with the water cooling pipework I swapped over my 3.5″ WD Blue drives to the 2.5″ Seagate Barracudas and gave them a go. Whilst everything appeared to be fine in Windows the drives kept spinning down during no activity. I set the power saving state of the drives manually using Xubuntu…