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nyyanks · 06-20-2003, 03:54 PM

He's right it seems that all the piping sizes are over stated.I'm new to water cooling and have just begun to collect parts for my system.
I do piping for a living so I pretty much know pipe sizes when I see them.The 1250,which I also have over states their sizes.The inlet is a half inch pipe but the barb is for 3/4 tubing.The outlet is 3/8 thread the barb is half inch.So hes right.
I have also seen where barbs are 1/2 inch with 3/8 pipe thread well basically all you are doing is reducing for 1/2 to 3/8 so you have a restriction.So in these system where people are running 1/2 tubing it would seem that they have more restrictions then they think.

06-20-2003, 03:54 PM	#5
nyyanks Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2003 Location: NY Posts: 12	He's right it seems that all the piping sizes are over stated.I'm new to water cooling and have just begun to collect parts for my system. I do piping for a living so I pretty much know pipe sizes when I see them.The 1250,which I also have over states their sizes.The inlet is a half inch pipe but the barb is for 3/4 tubing.The outlet is 3/8 thread the barb is half inch.So hes right. I have also seen where barbs are 1/2 inch with 3/8 pipe thread well basically all you are doing is reducing for 1/2 to 3/8 so you have a restriction.So in these system where people are running 1/2 tubing it would seem that they have more restrictions then they think.