Sleeved Tubing is the new meta! 

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Yeah I agree with Jay. Agree with you. Gotta have more intake than exhaust. His last Origin pre-built review they did the same thing. It's annoying to say the least because common sense tells any decent PC builder, more intake, less exhaust = better cooling. You know it's still grinding Jay's gears thinking about Origin's fan config 😂 I have always had better Temps in my builds with positive or neutral pressure compared to negative pressure. Jay did mention a valid point before, Origin probably does it that way simply for aesthics.

Well said. More Plug and play like

I'm a big advocate of soft tubing. General maintenance of the pc is easier as you can move tubes out the way, you can upgrade your CPU without having to drain the loop, it's safer for travel as the tubes have give and move about without ripping themselves out. If you take your time and learn how to manipulate the tubing to get different shaped and angled bends then it can look just as good as rigid tubing. And the tubing in that build is more than likely Corsair XT Softline Mesh Tubing, which comes with the sleeving applied already, available in black and white.

Ek have been doing black soft tubing for years you should check it out

​@MakinComputers I run soft tubing myself for the very same reasons, but let's not act like it's going to look nearly as good as properly run hard tubing. We gotta take that L in stride. Function over Form

@@ItsReallyGeo that's down to personal taste. When distros and acrylic hard-line was first being done by modders like bnegative and l3p, it was cool and different. Now, most of the time it's pretty dull. "Oh look, you've got a distro and nothing but horizontal runs. Yay*" (*sarcasm) There are a few people who still do really interesting stuff with hard-line, Ben Q does some insane builds with bent (as in curved) brass and copper tubing, liquidhaus does some awesome stuff combining hard-line with sleeved soft tubing, but on the whole I'm done with hard-line. O11 distro builds in particular can just gtfo. So boring, so dull, so unimaginative it's beyond belief. You see someone on a Facebook group who's done something a little funky and different that looks interesting and cool, they ask if people think it's ok and what they should change and the crowd go mental at the idea of anything remotely unique, urging them to change it to those same boring-ass horizontal lines. No, fudge that, the only thing that matters is if you like it, they don't all have to look the same. Take your time, learn how to manipulate soft tubing, and it can absolutely look awesome. Imo anyway.

mines like a homeless meth addict in the back. I started to make it nice and then i was like f it... the side panel still closes, i got games to play LOL.

Back in the day most rads got exhaust, and your gpu didn't throw hot air back in your case.

​@@zanzabar4ky7i want to go back, it might even be feasible with a quad slot blower.... lol

@@zanzabar4ky7 Back in the day, the power supply threw hot air back into your case. No, really. That was the official ATX1.0 spec. Few manufacturers of power supplies actually adhered to that part of the spec, because it was obviously stupid(or they didn't notice the change. The power supply had been the ONLY exhaust for so long, it was just assumed that the power supply fan was an exhaust).

@@CptJistuce old power ibm spec supplies had closed backs to make sure no one spilled liquid in them, so it would make sense for Intel's first spec to be that way.

@@zanzabar4ky7 Yeah, and computers of the time only needed one fan for cooling. But IBM power supplies were EXHAUST fans, not INTAKE.

Braiding cables...NEVER EVER again lol.

I'm a Software Engineer and have lots of friends that simply don't want to build and don't mind paying a premium for a good pre-built.

I'm stupid so do you expect better? Lol

@@Jayztwocents 😂😂😂

Yea cuz accepting 5 figure checks is hard🙃

PVC is cheap as dirt. I can buy 50 feet for what I paid for 10ft of EPDM. I use PVC for mockup/flush/temporary setups.

Same!!!

It looks great but it's a PITA if you change things around/update frequently... you have to plan ahead too, take more measurements, etc. I changed last year and damn... makes you think twice hehe

@@geort45 I swap every 4yrs. So every 2 gens. Got a 3080 will grab a 5080 or whatever AMD puts out and maybe then I'll try a custom loop.

Wise to avoid it honestly. Maintance is a pain, upgrading is a pain, it is more likely to leak. Wise to start with soft tube build first and honestly you will be plenty happy.

if it's your fist custom loop go for soft tubing really...

Exactly. Plasticizers suck, and it's pretty damn hilarious that they went out of their way to get an inferior tubing material that you usually compromise with because it's clear and they proceed to make it opaque anyway.

@@rustler08 yeah, I get that clear is the go to for these Prebuilt systems because pretty, but if you're not seeing the actual tube anyways then no point it being clear stuff full of plasticiser and all that, may as well just go EPDM at that point, there's a reason I have like 25-30m of the 13/19mm stuff in the conservatory haha

@@rustler08 They didn't really go out of their way since Corsair owns Origin now so they pretty much use exclusively Corsair watercooling products (and RAM, cases, etc) in their builds. If anything, using EPDM would be going out of their way instead...

@@-T--T- how did that work out for you? I'm considering building a simple Alphacool custom loop at some point with a slim 30mm radiator and the Eisbaer Aurora Pro cpu pump block.

@@-T--T- Yeah, I wasn't a fan of the 10/13 stuff all told, bit too thin walled, kinks easy, though I did just do a build using their 10/16mm EPDM tubing and that was a dream to use

I sleeved my own tubes, used EK ZMT and it was a huge pain to make sure things lined up and didn't kink or crease. Looks amazing after they're done but make sure you buy a lot of extra sleeving because you might be cutting the ends off and trying to redo it many times until you get it to set right.

I'd expect it to still work. When vehicle coolant systems are vacuum filled, the radiator hoses collapse.

@@theduck17 Corsair sells the soft tubing with sleeving already installed. Three meter packages in black or white. It's a recent addition and I'm assuming that's what Origin used in the build.

@@nickeljg24 Yeah, they do, but they're also much larger diameter and relatively thin wall compared to the soft tubing. I have some Corsair soft tubing lying around, so I'll give it a test prior to making the purchase. Assuming they use their standard tubing and just add the sleeve.

⁠@@fokker1138no the Mesh tubing uses EPDM rubber with Mesh over it

Same for me lol it would have been so much easier