Tygon, 1/2" ID, and 5/8" or 3/4" OD..

[Stang_Man]

ok, the price difference between 1/2" ID - 5/8" OD and 1/2" ID - 3/4" OD Tygon tubing, is 1.54 and 2.91 per foot.

i'm wondering, if there would be any drawbacks to using the 5/8" OD tygon tubing instead of the more expensive and larger diameter 3/4" OD.

[cougem]

I'd have thought thicker walls would be more resistive to kinks.

[bobkoure]

thicker walls would be more resistive to kinks

That's certainly my experience with silicone tubing.
You could use coolsleeves

with the thinner-wall tubing...

[Ewout_vB]

Tygon = kinkage...

I used some Coolsleeves as the post above.

[Tempus]

any measureable reduction in flow rates?


Where did you get yours?

[kronchev]

tygon = super expensive

get thickwalled clearflex and save cash. ive never had it kink, except when put in really tight loops.

[nexxo]

I've never had Tygon kink. But thenagain, I use stuff of at least 3mm wall thickness.

[DrMemory]

I have also used clearflex and found it to be kink resistant and much more flexible than "normal" vinyl tubing.

[Bobonit]

Where's a good place to get 5/8 or 3/4 Tygon or Clearflex ? All I seem to be able to find is 1/2 inch.

Thanks.

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by Bobonit

Where's a good place to get 5/8 or 3/4 Tygon or Clearflex ? All I seem to be able to find is 1/2 inch.

Thanks.

why do you want tubing thats so large?
1/2" / 12mm, 3mm walled, is already and lets do the maths 18mm think, get a ruler and have a look at this... its already very large, and space consuming.

[Bobonit]

I'm waiting on my pump to arrive. It's an Iwaki MD-30RZ which has 5/8 or 3/4 (not sure) connections. I was going to run the appropriate tubing to a Y connector and split it into 2 1/2 inch tubes to parallel rads. then back to 5/8 or 3/4 (depending on the pumps connections) into the pc then split it into 1/2 inch tubes to my 2 Xeon processors.

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by Bobonit

I'm waiting on my pump to arrive. It's an Iwaki MD-30RZ which has 5/8 or 3/4 (not sure) connections. I was going to run the appropriate tubing to a Y connector and split it into 2 1/2 inch tubes to parallel rads. then back to 5/8 or 3/4 (depending on the pumps connections) into the pc then split it into 1/2 inch tubes to my 2 Xeon processors.

i might possibly be a better idea to just get an adaptor and do it all in 1/2", of course this will cause alittle bit of restriction, but in terms or parts its just going to be less hassle.

Your water blocks, as stated on the forums many times would be better in series. this is because you want to have the highest possible flow rate across thes components.

i suppose having them in parallel is useful, if you have an flow rate that is two times the point at which the waterblock starts to exhibit insignificant gains in cooling from high flow rates.

[pauldenton]

Originally Posted by Bobonit

I'm waiting on my pump to arrive. It's an Iwaki MD-30RZ which has 5/8 or 3/4 (not sure) connections. I was going to run the appropriate tubing to a Y connector and split it into 2 1/2 inch tubes to parallel rads. then back to 5/8 or 3/4 (depending on the pumps connections) into the pc then split it into 1/2 inch tubes to my 2 Xeon processors.

page 85 - lhs=clearflex, rhs=tygon......
http://www.mcmaster.com/

18mm "barbs" on a 30RZ - 5/8" would be fine, 3/4 would be a bit loose (3/4" is a whisker over 19mm)
you can get 5/8" OD "Y"s here, which'd make it easy....
http://www.cooltechnica.com/Merchant...egory_Code=TAF

[Bobonit]

Thank you so much for the links. Exactly what I was looking for.