First time attempt - what to buy?

petteroe

petteroe

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I have thought about building a beautiful water cooled computer for a long time. I am a software developer so I sit next to my PC all day. Until now I have preferred laptops due to their general silence, but I need more beef to be able to run local LLMs and do some AI/ML training for work. So the time has come where I can justify putting some money into a custom build with the main goal to make it quiet under load. I am considering an external cooler to make it totally quite, but that will have to be a phase 2 project.

Here are what I think will be the main components of my build:
This is the shopping cart with the basis of my wants for the cooling, but being a noob I need some advice and sanity checking: Shopping cart alphacool

A few concrete questions:
  • I really like the clean look of hard tubes, but is that too difficult for a first build?
    • If I should go for hard tubes, what do you recommend as a "starter kit" for bending these?
  • I have no idea what to buy with regards to nozzles, connectors, fittings etc. I would like to have a solid, idiot proof suggestion if that is possible :)
  • Do I need a flow and a temp sensor? What do you recommend?
  • I found these things called quick release couplings which I thought might be good if I should need to disconnect the reservoar/distributor panel from the rest of the tubes going all around without having to drain the whole system. Is that what they are for? Do you recommend using this?
Thank you in advance for any help and tips you can give a noob to get me started :)
 
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