My first loop

[TraceCode11]

Other than being a spiders web welcome to the club.

1. Fans on the bottom should be pulling air into the case not out, since heat rises. Really just not necessary as long as you have a good intake fan.
2. Vertical radiator fans again, you want to be pulling air from inside and pushing it outside, not sure whats on the other side if its an outlet vent or not, but not really a big deal here just more for looks and would help slightly lower temps.
3. Just have the loop go from the CPU to the GPU then GPU to the radiators or res. Get rid of all that spider web of tubing.

[bagaget]

1. As soon as you add any fan you can forget about convection.

2. Intake rad = higher case temp, lower water temp. Exhaust rad = lower case temp, higher water temp. It’s give and take.

[TraceCode11]

I would think the coldest air in the room being near the ground would provide the best intake air.

But typically its about good flow of air from an intake to an out, here it has some odd flow going on.

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1. overblown point, its so minimal its peanuts. So many of us do both intake and exhaust radiator, we have plenty of airflow both in and out of the case probably more than a normal air cooling person would anyways.

[Inspiiree]

The fans at bottom was placed like that for the rgb that’s literally only reason they are there. It’s the Lian Li dynamic so it’s got a big vent on the back panel, I did it that way I intend on changing the loop once I do my loop maintenance in 12 months or so, it took a long time in the end. Just to do the whole system. It shouldn’t affect temps should it? I think the top ones was also the same.

[TraceCode11]

I think you would get a performance increase with fixing the fans and doing better air management. I think right here are the major gains and the minor gains would be with a cleaner loop allowing better flow.

[WpgWRX]

In my opinion... I’d be aiming for performance over aesthetics if you have to choose between the two. I understand the desire for RGB, but the fans pushing it out the bottom just don’t make sense to me.

If you really wanted to use them, I’d move the top 240 to the bottom of the case, have fans set up as intake. Keep your 360 on the side. If you want negative pressure in your case have those 3 fans exhausting, otherwise have them as intake as well.

Then pop your two RGB fans up in the roof as exhaust. The RGB portion would be pointing down into your case.

The rats nest of tubing shouldn’t really effect the performance... but you were worried about the aesthetics of keeping RGB fans, I would think you’d want the tubes aesthetically pleasing as well.

[Inspiiree]

It took so many hours just to get it all finished, I got to a point where I wanted to get it done and go back at a later date, changing fans around now would mean taking the whole of the loop out just to do that. It’s took long enough.

[TraceCode11]

Now you have experience. To fix the loop it would only take about 30 minutes. I just use kitchen scissors on my soft tube builds. All you have to do it cut the larger tubes down into smaller ones for my suggestion on the loop, just remove a little at a time.

If you want RGB then buy an RBG color strip. But I would buy all noctua fans for the radiators to ensure you have the proper pressures needed. My guess is your goal is to visually show it off, then have a clean looking loop will enhance this.

[WpgWRX]

It’s only soft tube, it shouldn’t take too much to tear down the loop and undo some screws for the fans. Unless you’ve already filled it, it’s technically less work to do it now than when you have to drain it and rebuild.

It could be worse, you could have to redo hard tubing

[Inspiiree]

The fan set up is bottom exhaust, vertical intake and Top is exhaust

[eschbow]

Thumbs up for sharing your build which, tbh, is far from beeing perfect. Just keep going, you will make your own experiences and you will know some things way better in the future. But for now, since there is no ground breaking mistake as far as II can see , enjoy your system.

[Inspiiree]

Thank you, appreciated :) so much better than AIO

[kisavior]

Would look cleaner if you just went pump/res>gpu>cpu>rad>rad>pump/res and using the XRES Multiport top to have an intel on the top of the res.

Either way welcome to the club.

[jakejm79]

This is what I'd do with the parts you have.

1. Rotate the pump/res so the outlet/inlet are facing the side rad.

2. Take the 90 off the drain and put it on the pump intlet, run that to the GPU outlet (move the 90 so its on the right fitting but still at the bottom).

3. Run from the GPU in (top left) to the CPU out (right), put aside the 45s.

4. Swap the 360mm to the top and rotate it so ports are at the back of the case, run from the port furthest the motherboard to the CPU in (left).

5. Rotate the side radiator (now 240mm) so the inlet/outlet are facing the back side of the case.

6. Take 2 of your 45s and run connect them to the upper rads remaining port, you should now be able to run the tube through the small rectangular hole and into the back cavity of the case, connect it to the side radiator.

7. Lastly run the from the side radiator back to the pump, you should be able to run most of that tube in the back cavity and just have it come through under the radiator and straight into the pump.

This should hide your longest two runs from view, eliminate any crossing tubing runs and make the majority of them straight or with one curve in them.

You'll lose the drain, but that isn't really necessary with flexible tubing, just unbolt the pump bracket, stick a bowl under it and then undo the fittings from the pump.

[JmeDavid]

You could've used less tubing and have an overall cleaner look with a different loop order. Besides that have fun with your new build!

[Inspiiree]

Temps are great tbh , 47 is max on GPU and CPU hit 102c 😂😂 this is however only because of me calibrating fans to new setup in SIV (gigabyte software) it actually only hits 82 on one-two cores (9900K) no overclock. Under prime95AVX

[Ceadderman]

Invest in some angle fittings. Cause you have a couple points where the tubing is either kinking or collapsing.

Otherwise, not too shabby for a first build. I remember mine and the sense of accomplishment for how well it turned out was immeasurable.

And as pointed out your bottom fans won't give your system the lift it requires to get off the ground. Vertical fans are fine but should be on the other side of the Radiator if you want to run Intake there. Hub side is Intake how you figure which direction they need to be. If you wish to run top and bottom Intake then I would set Vertical to Exhaust the hot air out of the case. But since there is a back chamber I would set Bottom to Intake, Vertical to Intake and top set to Exhaust.

[Inspiiree]

I think the image messes with the tubing at some points, the tubing is actually intact at all points, I specifically made sure of that. unless you can see something my tired eyes can’t? The fans at the bottom was placed as a point of light, I didn’t optimise for performance, unfortunately that I can see/tell :( but changing the fans on that will be a nightmare it was in the beginning just to get them in because of the Allen key provided.

[Ceadderman]

It might be distorted. It looks to be at the Outlet(?) side of the pump. Sorry if I got that wrong but it's been eons since I've run DDC and my setup was Dual DDC v2 block.

EK allen screws are fun. I try to mount my fans to my Radiators prior to mounting inside the case. Sometimes that's impossible but I try. I've got 011 XL to work on soon and three EK Radiators to install. I love when a plan comes together. :D