BitsPower Compression Barbs installation

[disruptfam]

do you still want to use the bp fittings? They are a pita to get everything right but they look better imo.

1/2 barbs w/7/16 tubing will be the easiest route

If you still want the bp's

i would get tygon 3/8 5/8 1/8 (Clear) from usplastics They ship to Australia w/ 3/8 5/8 1/8 bp fittings from frozencpu or gam or petras

Will look this but clear tubing...

[NoobCake]

do you still want to use the bp fittings? They are a pita to get everything right but they look better imo.

1/2 barbs w/7/16 tubing will be the easiest route

yeah i do mate, but it won't bloody fit on the fuzion.. im keen on purchasing the fuzion.. and keen on getting the looks of these compression barbs

as someone said in the 2nd page that the koolance can fit on the fuzion i heading towards them..

yeah, but i like to try something different always.. so these compression barbs look nice

IM NOT GIVING UP!

[disruptfam]

bp vincent @ bitpower said they where working on some adapters that we could use comp fittings on the fuzion.I pm'ed him a lil back no reply as of yet

(i need them for my chipset blocks)

[NoobCake]

JUST WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love it...

DISRUPT your making me jealous

lol i just don't like it where it says tygon on the tubing.. that puts me off

anyways disrupt.. do you think i should order my fuzion etc EVERYTHING now then wait for the compression barbs for the fuzion etc?

EDIT: 3/8" tubing doesnt look so bad after all :P

but for the time being, ill wait for NaeKuh's reply

[disruptfam]

1 thing to keep in mind the bp comp fittings are expensive.

Ummm i would wait a lil bit to see what bitspower are doing.When are you planning to set your wc up? weeks?

[NoobCake]

1 thing to keep in mind the bp comp fittings are expensive.

Ummm i would wait a lil bit to see what bitspower are doing.When are you planning to set your wc up? weeks?

just whenever really.. i can wait like you said and purchase my hardware etc first.. but ideally i was looking at setting up before school starts

[disruptfam]

i would purchase your hardware 1st run it on air until everything you need it out atleast you use you pc until then

[NoobCake]

i would purchase your hardware 1st run it on air until everything you need it out atleast you use you pc until then

hmm yeah true..

how many weeks am i expecting here?

[Maglin]

Noob,
I'm pretty sure that NaeKuh said that the MasterKleer 7/16" tubing fit's the 13mm Koolance compression fittings. They look very sharp and are cheaper than the BP's I do believe. You can get a pair off their site for just $10 US.

The fittings.

Tygon Tubing

You already know where you can get MasterKleer locally. I think the best thing to do is to get the compression fittings and try it out on the Fusion. I'm pretty sure it might fit.

[Pedalmonkey]

nice trash can disrupt

[NoobCake]

nice trash can disrupt

yeah, i love the "loveHeart"

yeah thanks for that Mag

but... why the HELL is the bloody shipping $81??? for just barbs?? wtf is this

[Waterlogged]

yeah thanks for clearing that up guys..

@ LogAn'sRun, i should go down a size? do you mean 3/8" tubing? and which tubing are you using?

so 1/2" compression barbs aren't a very good idea? i should just use normal barbs instead?

But what about the D5 Vario? how am i supposed to fit 3/8" ID 5/8" OD tubing on that?

anyways, so whats the wall thickness i need to be looking at?

Also any reason why can't i use these tubing?
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...d3310c95f6e05f

You can use that tubing with the Bitspower fittings but they won't fit the FuZioN.

NO! i want to use them

wow that looks so good how he did it..

But then again maybe there might be a aftermarket top for the D5's?

Hmm buy everything now? sit on my ass and wait for that aftermarket to come out?

anyways, should i buy the Fuzion or the EK? As waterlogged said, i could use those Koolance Compression fittings as he said they will fit..

any other compression fittings that will fit the fuzion?

I'm fairly certain none of the Bitspower comps will fit the FuZioN. Koolance, only 3/8 that I linked to or smaller will fit, and then there are a couple from Europe that will fit but they are too small for most ppl here to use. The pics below are the 3/8" x 1/2" fittings I linked to earlier.


As for using tubing that doesn't exactly match the designed intended size of the fitting, I'm not really a big fan of the idea. It just seems to me that your asking the tubing or fitting to work in a manner that wasn't accounted for by the designer.

[NoobCake]

wow, looks good and it looks like it will only fit with 3/8", i don't think it can go bigger

[Waterlogged]

Yep, that's as big as you can go....for now anyway. It remains to be seen how the rumored offset adapters from BP will work if they ever come out.

You could always go with Innovatek 10/8 comp.

[NoobCake]

Ok thanks guys for all your pics/replies

also i would like to ask, would it be worth me buying a Apogee GTX + the copper top? as that will? fit the bit power fittings?

[NaeKuh]

This is my computer flicking off all the koolance haters in this room:




And this is how blingy it looks:


Here is a side by side comparison:


And like the BP the compression part is a PITA to get on but you can do it by hand.

And there small enough to fit on this:


Peace! *running away very fast before i get raped by the koolance haters!*

[disruptfam]

nice trash can disrupt

why thank you

it's my gf's

[NoobCake]

hmm.. any suggestions on what i should do?

[NoobCake]

guys? think i should get the GTX + copper top so i can get those bit powers :P ?

[Waterlogged]

guys? think i should get the GTX + copper top so i can get those bit powers :P ?

Honestly, I don't even consider the Apogee GTX a player in the game anymore, it simply can't keep up with a washered/nozzled FuZioN or a EK Supreme. If you plan to have any extra blocks on the CPU loop, go with the FuZioN. My personal opinion about the Supreme is that you shouldn't run anything less than dual D5/DDC 3.2 on a CPU only loop for it to really work it's magic, again, that's just my opinion.

[NoobCake]

Honestly, I don't even consider the Apogee GTX a player in the game anymore, it simply can't keep up with a washered/nozzled FuZioN or a EK Supreme. If you plan to have any extra blocks on the CPU loop, go with the FuZioN. My personal opinion about the Supreme is that you shouldn't run anything less than dual D5/DDC 3.2 on a CPU only loop for it to really work it's magic, again, that's just my opinion.

yeah fair enough, i was just asking for suggestions/opinions

anyways, what should i get then? I seriously should of rkn the EK supreme 2 holes should of been aligned in the middle properly instead one hole being totally inaccurate to the middle..

Im seriously still wanting to get the Fuzion as its the CHEAPEST block out of all of them and can perform so good.. also one down thing is that it won't let me use BT

[Big_Daddy]

I got a question, what if you raised one of the fittings up an inch or so? What is the distance from the block (with a bp fitting installed) to the knurled top? What if you put something like this on the block, then installed the 2nd bp fitting to it?

Btw, it's a g1/4 to g1/4 m/f fitting. it's .87(22mm) total, It would add around .56(14.2mm) to the bp fitting.

I'm not saying that one (or more) of these would fix it, but it's something to think about?