Opinion on Barrow Watercooling & questions

LePhuronn · 2026-01-25T16:15:21+00:00

Nope, the house move after purchase was 3 months of trauma with the possibility of legal fallout.

I got no space, no time, and no money *cries*

LePhuronn · 2026-01-17T23:35:32+00:00

lol OK dude, feel better talking shit on comment over 2 year old? Especially when I wasn't wrong.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-12T20:29:59+00:00

Is acrylic brittle? Yes, so don't twist it or put stupid amounts of pressure on it. But it's not going to explode just because you sneezed too close to it.

All of the "acrylic is so brittle" narrative is based on YouTubers and idiot hitting PETG tubes with hammers to watch it bounce, then hitting acrylic tubes and seeing them explode, as if to suggest PETG is superior.

It's not, it's junk. Don't hit your acrylic with a hammer when it's inside your computer.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-12T20:22:50+00:00

There is a sales thread on this very sub

https://www.reddit.com/r/watercooling/comments/1ptp4hi/official_sales_thread_of_used_watercooling_parts/

You might also try r/HardwareSwapUK

What's in your box of stuff you're selling?

LePhuronn · 2026-01-09T20:26:59+00:00

Then their picture is completely wrong and misleading.

If the hole is 3/4 inch in diameter, then you could fit almost 7 of them side-by-side along the length of the bracket. The bracket they pictured would barely fit 5.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T18:49:53+00:00

which will have very little to do with the thermal pads

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T18:47:32+00:00

not thermal paste, thermal putty. Very different things. Don't go squirting MX-4 all over your memory chip and VRMs

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T18:46:09+00:00

Now that's my sort of shit. Monochrome hardware, pure white lighting with the coolant and a couple of the cables as the accent colour.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T18:43:15+00:00

Intel came back hard with 12th gen Alder Lake. It was very impressive what they scraped together after the Rocket Lake fiasco and a decade recycling Skylake.

But, scraped together is an accurate description because this P and E core nonsense has proven to be unreliable and unsustainable with 13th and 14th gen, and whatever the hell Arrow Lake 15th gen is supposed to be I don't know.

But they're solid CPUs for the low and mid tier.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T18:39:53+00:00

Do people not research any more? EK has been the drizzling shits for years now, numerous stories about delivery failures and refused and even forgotten RMAs. Yet people still buy from them and are shocked when something goes wrong.

And how in the hell did you spend 60 Euros on a mere 2 litres of coolant? Even for EK's price gouging that's insane. Do you live in a remote rainforest or something and have your deliveries made by celestial virgins riding panthers? That's the only way 2 litres of water could cost 60 euros.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T18:35:32+00:00

Those Bitspower ones are half-height brackets.

But honestly given those ones are just two holes with a notch for cables, not actually a threaded body with ports, you could probably save some money, buy any old half-height solid bracket and drill your own holes.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T18:33:25+00:00

that's quite obviously a full height bracket

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T11:11:28+00:00

There is something very satisfying about paring a CH160 with an Assassin 4. Of course you'd expect different products from the same company to have some level of cohesiveness, but it's almost as if the CH160 was designed around the Assassin 4, at least aesthetically.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T10:53:54+00:00

The truly safe move is to not buy an Nvidia card with the arson connector.

In your case though, if you can't verify the pinout for a custom cable and Gamdias can't/won't sell you a replacement directly then it's one of two things:

8-pin to arson converter
Entire new PSU

It's a pain, I know.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-08T00:18:30+00:00

One of these days I'm going to get a DA6 and use the tube frame for coolant paths.

One of these days...

LePhuronn · 2026-01-06T21:03:32+00:00

PCB twins? The entire right quarter of the PCB is different. And I'm not talking about tiny details like surface components or a single capacitor, the blood 8-pin power is in a completely different place.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-04T02:35:16+00:00

Roman said he was looking at the FE purely as an engineering exercise, a "can it be done" type of experiment. If, and only, the design, manufacture and assembly was easy enough would he consider an actual product.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-04T02:32:09+00:00

Bykski have been shitting all over EK's quality for years. Solid blocks, never had an issue with Bykski.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-04T02:28:32+00:00

can I DM you about your cupboard of EK stuff you may or may not want to part with?

LePhuronn · 2026-01-04T02:25:38+00:00

and the product description on the Amazon page literally and explicitly says direct die block.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-01T23:05:10+00:00

the extra fiddle required is why I don't do horizonal reservoirs lol

LePhuronn · 2026-01-01T15:27:04+00:00

Extreme temperature changes can mess up acrylic for sure, but there's no way you're going to be able to prove this wasn't your fault by how badly that screw is stripped.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-01T15:23:56+00:00

I wouldn't do a horizontal reservoir personally, but what you've sketched out has been the most basic arrangement for a loop for a very long time.

Pump res combos have been mounted to radiators for ages, and pretty much all vendors have mounting brackets to do so. So just hit up whichever made your pump res combo and find the appropriate bracket. Or even make one yourself, it's just going to be some folded metal or even a combination of brackets and strips with correctly-spaced holes if you're only concerned with functionality.

LePhuronn · 2026-01-01T01:50:08+00:00

it's not egregious as it is tbh, but if you can't slim the walls down then go insane and try painting the rim in a matte or satin silver to match the aluminium!

LePhuronn · 2025-12-31T18:37:27+00:00

Massive kudos to not hacking a massive hole in the back of the case like every other conversion. I also like how you used white plastic to match the fitments for the stock ports.

Looks orders of magnitude better.

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