Current WCer, New System and Setup
Greetings...
I've had a lot of bad luck with water cooling. My first go resulted in a successful 24 hour leak test that eventually broke down, flooding the bottom of my case after a few months. My second go I felt was my best work yet with water cooling. I absolutely thought it was perfect and the leak test went without a hitch. It's a good thing I was using Fluid XP+ because I checked one day why the reservoir was kinda low and there was a pool of fluid on my video card from the CPU. If you lifted up on the tubes to the CPU, it would start leaking terribly. Never showed up during the leak test. I fixed it by using plumbers tape and silicon, but it isn't how I would want this to work.
I've been reading all the updated that have been made since I last came here for my WC information. I noticed two things that caught my interest. First of all was compression fittings, because they seemed like the best way to not have a leak, though I don't fully understand how it works, so it may not be best to assume that. The second is the 7/16" ID MasterKleer instead of 1/2" ID. I was wondering which of these two would be most secure.
I get rather confused with all of the ID/OD and matching everything up, so I was also wondering if someone could explain how the 7/16" ID is a better choice. Do you just use it on a barb meant for a 1/2" ID, but since it is a bit smaller it makes a tighter fit without messing with the flow rate?
I apologize if the post seems a little mixed up or incoherent in any way.
EDIT: Mainly I just want to know which is safer. Compression fittings or 7/16" ID on a 1/2" barb.
But feel free to respond to the rest of the post like the others!
