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krishpatel0416

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I’m looking to build a custom water loop. I want to spend 400-500 dollars for the whole loop. I need help compiling a part list.
I have a Gigabyte AB350M-Gaming 3-CF, ryzen 7 1700, msi gtx 1060 6gb, and msi rx 580 8gb. I am building in a nzxt s340. Do I need to cool my motherboard? Do you think it is possible to build a decent liquid cooling loop at this budget? And if so what parts should I use?
 
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In that case, you would be better with new case as well.
S340 is not the best in terms of airflow and far from being custom loops friendly.
It supports up to 280mm rad - which would not be that quiet or require you to seek for a short 1080Ti as you probably can't put rad thicker than 40mm.
You can make a CPU loop meanwhile and add components late.
Just be sure to pick a D5 or DDC pump.
Here are the best tops for them https://www.singularitycomputers.com/product-category/watercooling/pump-components/
Reservoirs and mounts are also there.
For the radiator in this S340 http://hardwarelabs.com/nemesis/gts/280gts/
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Welcome to the world of custom water cooling!!! It's a great hobby. I understand Gam3r01's opinion of course. Makes sense. But I do disagree in some cases. If you are just doing it for the FUN of doing it. Just for the looks. The adventure. Then why not?

There are so many different ways you can go, and it's mostly up to what you think looks good. When I first started, I would find builds I like on the net, and then use that as a template to create my own. Are there any out there you've seen you like? Share them to give us an idea of what you want to do!

EKWB has a pretty cool tool for looking at basic setups/costs. Go to the link below and enter your hardware. It'll give you a good idea of what to look for
https://www.ekwb.com/custom-loop-configurator/
 
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I agree with the above comments - you (your system) will gain about 0 performance boost from liquid cooling.
What I'm going to say next. might sound a bit harsh - its not. Only practical opinion.
Most of your current parts are not worth liquid cooling.
The ryzen overclocking is not temperature limited.
The GPUs are too "low end" too consider spending over 100$ too cool each of them. not to mention that you will have hard time to find a compatible blocks.
There is very little reason to liquid cool most MB and RAM. the only components that do benefit from liquid are high end CPUs and GPUs.

For specified budget, you can build a very cool CPU only loop.Or ~500 can buy a decent CPU +GPU loop.

If you are doing it for fun, hobby or any other non practical reason, there are many cool things that you can use.
for example those CPU blocks https://shop.aquacomputer.de/index.php?cPath=7_11_12_2694 that have build in displays.
IMO, EK components are mediocre and overpriced. Wouldn't use any of them today. Well, may be the GPU block, but probably not
 
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I’m going to upgrade to a 1080 ti soon but I was thinking I could create a loop first and add the 1080ti later.
 
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Ekwb won’t let me choose two different gpus. But I will take the parts they gave me and incorporate them into my build.
 
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I plan to liquid cool just because and In the future I may change my gpu and cpu.
 
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In that case, you would be better with new case as well.
S340 is not the best in terms of airflow and far from being custom loops friendly.
It supports up to 280mm rad - which would not be that quiet or require you to seek for a short 1080Ti as you probably can't put rad thicker than 40mm.
You can make a CPU loop meanwhile and add components late.
Just be sure to pick a D5 or DDC pump.
Here are the best tops for them https://www.singularitycomputers.com/product-category/watercooling/pump-components/
Reservoirs and mounts are also there.
For the radiator in this S340 http://hardwarelabs.com/nemesis/gts/280gts/
 
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Dragos Manea

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First Upgrade anything you want to upgrade then make custom loop, you spend money on AMD brackets and you spend another 130$ on vga block then when you upgrade you will throw them away because they dont fit on new hardware. The most expensive thing here is the VGA block which cannot be used with another gpu, just with the gpu for which was made for.
You got two options:
1) stay with current hardware and make loop (dont make any upgrades for some time)
2)upgrade first then make loop
 
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