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     <img src="/static/media/Evolv_Close_Up.jpg" alt="Tight shot on custom watercooling loop. EK Fluid Gaming components on GTX Titan Xp (2017) and Ryzen 5 3600. Build has an overall black parts theme with an amber light scheme. Parts are tightly framed by three brightly lit Corsair LL120 fans. Two are above on a radiator, the other is on the exhaust." width="1000" height="750" />

     <figcaption>Last form of the build in Phanteks Evolv ITX case.</figcaption>

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-  <p>Some issues remained, however. Draining the loop was an extreme pain made no easier by the case. I also upgraded to a Ryzen 9 5950X, so I  wanted another radiator for the heat load. Unfortunately, by this point EK had discontinued selling Fluid Gaming kits and their spare parts. If I wanted any new parts, they would have to be second hand or from some other source. Worse yet, the aftermarket aluminum watercooling scene is basically non-existant. You can get radiators w/built in barb fittings and that's about it. After a lot of searching, I caved and bought a Chinese 240mm radiator with built-in barb fittings. There's nothing really wrong with this functionally, but having got into watercooling from an aesthetic point of view, it irked me. This still did not solve my drain issues though. EK used to sell an aluminum 3-way junction fitting, but it required extra compression fittings to join to it. Even then, there was no aluminum plugs or valves that I could find, so even if I had purchased the junction, I wouldn't have been able to have an easy drain tube. I thought about this over the course of my build iterations, and by the time I decided to just buy a few, they were no longer sold...</p>

-  <p>That's really the life lesson here. Don't buy into platforms supported by only one company if there's a whole other ecosystem of functionally identical products with much greaty support. Of course, for me, cost was a large factor in making my decision, but had I done some more reasearch I would have found there are cheap copper parts available that are still good quality. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my aluminum loop. The only thing I can really do is give it away, as I wouldn't want someone else to buy into a dead-end platform. My other option is to machine custom parts for it. I could do this if I had reliable equimpent and endless time, but it's to the point now where I don't want to be doing stuff like that for my computer.</p>

+  <p>Some issues remained, however. Draining the loop was an extreme pain made no easier by the case. I also upgraded to a Ryzen 9 5950X, so I  wanted another radiator for the heat load. Unfortunately, by this point EK had discontinued selling Fluid Gaming kits and their spare parts. If I wanted any new parts, they would have to be second hand or from some other source. Worse yet, the aftermarket aluminum watercooling scene is basically non-existent. You can get radiators w/built in barb fittings and that's about it. After a lot of searching, I caved and bought a Chinese 240mm radiator with built-in barb fittings. There's nothing really wrong with this functionally, but having got into watercooling from an aesthetic point of view, it irked me. This still did not solve my drain issues though. EK used to sell an aluminum 3-way junction fitting, but it required extra compression fittings to join to it. Even then, there was no aluminum plugs or valves that I could find, so even if I had purchased the junction, I wouldn't have been able to have an easy drain tube. I thought about this over the course of my build iterations, and by the time I decided to just buy a few, they were no longer sold...</p>

+  <p>That's really the life lesson here. Don't buy into platforms supported by only one company if there's a whole other ecosystem of functionally identical products with much greater support. Of course, for me, cost was a large factor in making my decision, but had I done some more research I would have found there are cheap copper parts available that are still good quality. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my aluminum loop. The only thing I can really do is give it away, as I wouldn't want someone else to buy into a dead-end platform. My other option is to machine custom parts for it. I could do this if I had reliable equipment and endless time, but it's to the point now where I don't want to be doing stuff like that for my computer.</p>

   <p>Maybe it'll end up in a second PC with my old R5. That's probably it's fate. Now to get that X58 machine together...</p>

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