yeah I may consider it. My experience mainly comes from my car modding/restro hobby. I have quite a bit of experience with cooling systems, I even designed and had custom radiators manufactured for my cars becasue the ones on the market were poor quality and were thinner than the original factory units. I improved on quality, fitment and performance over the OEM units.
I apply some of this knowledge to PC cooling, hence why I use auto coolant as cars use mixed metals and have way way more harsh operating environment than a PC does yet there is no corrosion occurring even after many years as long as the coolant is good quality and changed on time. Typically 5-7 years with modern coolants. In a PC the service life is even more as the environment is very light duty.
Speaking of using auto stuff in PCs, you can actually now get EPDM rubber hoses for PC water cooling, they are the standard material used in cars and has good sealing and elasticity, not quite as good as silicone but close enough to be far superior to PVC used commonly in PCs
That said now days hard acrylic tubing is preferred in water cooling PCs over the older stye soft tubing. I personally hate the way hard tubing looks and it can be hard for beginners as it requires heating and tools to make the bends. I like soft tubing as its easy, forgiving and has that industrial look to it, even more so with EPDM as its solid black in colour.
I am tossing up between EPDM and silicone. Silicone normally comes as a colourless translucent hose which can look odd in modern PCs with all the black and all, EPDM would give it that all black industrial look I am after. I guess I can buy both and see which I like better.
Here is my carts so far for the bits I want to get latter in the year.
I have to get the RAM, board, mechanical HDD and radiators individually from ebay and few other stores.
Black ice LX360 rads 2x
non RGB Trident Z CL16 3733 16GB dual chanel kit. (original red/silver design)
MSI x470 Gaming M7 AC (one of the best x470 boards and it allows win 7 with 3rd gen ryzen with some driver mods)
HGST 4TB drive
and all this stuff in my carts already.
I already have a Xonar Phoebus PCIe sound card in my current rig, will transfer that over.
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