Before watching the video, I had no idea what practical use there could possibly be for this thing. After watching the video, I'm pretty sure there's none.

Hyyyyype!!! This is everything I wanted hahaha. You have more patience than I do for these kinds of projects. Looking forward to seeing this in a case!

They say 32 options, and what I hear is "32 possible points of failure."

seeing the gamers nexus video on ek today made me think about the opening quote of "nevermind the condition ek sent them to me in." i dont think these are guna leave their inventory anytime soon...

It would look cool in a duel loop system, have different coloured fluids, and have them crossing into each others distro thing. Dont know how well they'd show up through the tubes and liquid, but might be a neat idea

0:21 oddly prophetic, given the recent news

If you build a loop inside of the res, then run sub ambient coolant through it, you could use it as a heat exchanger!

Make all the inner tube run as the component loop. Then cool the outer liquid with its own loop. That's why Steve said, water cool the water cooler.

I’m a pipe fitter and push lock fittings work fine I use them all the time. Just make sure you don’t have a super sharp edge so it doesn’t cut the o-ring.

Idea: if you're using two of these, use one on the gpu loop and one on the cpu loop. use copper tubing inside the reservoir as a heat exchanger between the two loops. Connect one of the outputs from one into the array of copper tubes in the other. That way, if one loop gets too hot and has to spool up, the other takes on some of the heat. You'd have to use the topmost center input ports, so it would probably be best to use glass tubing to minimize air ingress as water would slowly leave through plastic tubes (to prevent air getting mixed down into the loops), but it would look sick as hell. Is it ludicrous overkill? Sure. That's part of the fun though. EDIT: this might actually make the individual loops easier to do depending on the cases fan mounts. The cpu loop could be on the back, with the radiator IO towards the back, and the GPU could be on the front, completely avoiding the area where the CPU loop parts would go. Then you could have that go-between fit right in the middle between the two.

Funny watching this after the release of Steve's EK takedown 😬

Falcon northwest still making fragboxes makes me so happy. Back in the mid 2000s as a diehard maximumpc reader it was my dream to own one, always seeing their ads. And now I still can!

Hmmm 2 loops different colors. Have the opposite color going into reservoir would look cool.

Take off the fittings that are blocked due to internal tubing and put rgb lights in them. You can sync them to indicate the hot/cold water and/or cpu/gpu. As well as pulsating the flow orientation.

@Jayztwocents engineering nerd tip. That distribution plate sort of works like a tube and shell heat exchanger. The benefit of using this is that you cool the water mid loop before it reaches the next component. Tube and shell heat exchangers operate at maximum efficiency when the cooling water, and the water being cooled flow in opposite directions. So any loop segments routed internally should flow in closer to the pump suction, and flow out further away from the pump suction to get the maximum cooling effect. It would be great to see you discuss this in a future video, and implement this concept into your build to the maximum practical extent. I'm excited to see how the build turns out, and am a big fan of both you and @GamersNexus!

Someone at EK was being a troll, and the CEO said "bet? put it in production.."

As for case: How about the Lian Li V3000+? Go big or go home.

Phanteks NV9 White, if you want a white and black water build. Im using the nv9 case myself.

Use them in the Phanteks NV9 🤘🏻

Phanteks NV9 with the double loop could be sick

The Thermaltake CTE E600 MX would be a cool case for this as it fits up to 3x 140s in the back 👍

500$ before tax for this plate without fittings is absolutely insane.. Who buys this??

Couple options: 4 vertical tubes in two different coolant colors running vertically through clear coolant. Then you can use white colored RGB fans to provide glow. Second, use short straight pipes and plug into the two port sets. Then alternate the colored coolants between tubes.

This feels like its best use would be as a key to mak another distro plate.

Hey Jay, you wanted to build in the Phanteks NV9 , maybe you can use that case here.

You can use this in a dual loop set up where each loop is a different color and fill this block with one color and pipe the other color through the block so you can see it going through. Maybe clear yellow in the block and blue in the pipe throughs so you see green piping through.

Got to be an Inwin case. Also you can have 2 different colour loops with the internal tubes being different to the filled liquid

Nv9 case. Huge and plenty of room to work and full glass to show it off.

Case idea: Phanteks NV9 It would be interesting to see considering that Bykski have a distro/pump specifically designed for the NV7. Although what would be really interesting is have 2 loops (contrasting colours) where the loops go into the opposite distro plates!

When are you going to watercool your favorite KZfaqr?

@JayzTwoCents you can open the pump and solder a 4 pin PWM fan wire to the pump. You just have to be careful that the pump doesn't pull more amperage than the motherboard can handle.

Use a case where you can have one in the front, one in the back. Create unnecessary loopage and have different colors for CPU and GPU. Non-opague coolant but 2 different colors so you can see the other color within each resevoir.

This is pretty dope and the possibilities are quite versatile. EK makes some neato stuff. Also, use it in the NV9

Maybe that was ups, fedex, or usps fault

I think you should use the two of those as the ends of your case and build copper tubing runs between them as the frame of your custom built case....

I love the collabs and challenges among tech channels. ❤

aged like milk

Maybe that was ups, fedex, or usps fault?

Thanks Steve

Got an ek240 aio hearing constantly how high quality they are designed and in my opinion have a very nice sleek aesthetic.

This video didn't age well.... super awkward watching this AFTER the EK fallout.

Like if you watch this video after the ek scandal 😢

jay you should do a twin loop with these. one loop being as an example blue and the other red. have one loop a going through loop b's block

I could see this being really cool with a duel loop and different color coolant. You could have the reservoir be red coolant and have blue flow through it giving a real freaky look. Or something along those lines.

This video didn't survive long.

Im looking forward to seeing the insane build that Yall use it in.

2 of those would be nice for car build, make them as cylinder heads for a v-engine

A dual loop with the runs passing through the other loops resivour would look pretty cool. Have them different colors too.

I like the new thumbnail style, keep up the good work guys.

Great video man! and Case I think you should use the new Hyate Y70 Touch.

If you have all things feeding into this at sections of the loop it might help temps by acting as a heat exchanger. Hot out from CPU passing through the cold reservoir

The order of operations is important. With the way those 90s are attached you could insert your the tubes first and then screw both sides in the distro plate.

Damn!!! That'll be a number one thing I need in my next build. It's pretty much like adding a fan to a case. BTW, will 12mm soft tubing work as well?

2 in a build but separate loops with different colours so you could have one loop pass through inside the manifold of the other

Jay, it would be interesting for you to go really obscure with the build with one distro plate for the cpu and gpu, which is transferring the heat of these components to the other distroplate with just radiators. It would be interesting to see how much heat can be removed from the loop by just fitting and cables inside of the reservoir combo.

This reminds me of an old Numberphile episode on the Enigma machine, with the plugbank on the front for that extra scrambling..... it is uttering ridiculous and I love it.

ThermalTake P8 TG massive case ample room and looks sick with the sides taken off and just having an open case. That's how I run mine

Thanks, Steve.

Hey Jay & team, the case I would like for to see you use for these Loop Hole products is the EK-Quantum InWin 977EK. Thanks for the video!

I’m ready to see this build

ok, idea. I have been looking at this and have been thinking about building my own case with this. (I don't have the skills nor the money to do now) but you can :) Use an old case for form factor and make it a piece of designer furniture, but still showcasing the watercooled build with the block as the main scene :)

This would be awesome to use in a build with two of these distro plates, but run them as to serperate loops with different colours and have them run through each other, so you get like pink tubes in a blue reservoir and blue tubes in the pink res.

This would fit perfectly in my Thermaltake View 51

Using two of these in 2 separate loops with different fluid colors that pass through the other colors blocks would be interesting. Such as a Yellow loop in one with a Blue loop in the other so you get a Green look inside the blocks where the one loop passes through the other.

Oh god, a watercooling breadboard

When you use two of these and clear tubes, how about using different dyes and let the loops "cross" so you get a color mix. Let the colored water from the first reservoir flow through the internal loop of the other and visa versa.

I think it could be interesting with two as you could do 2 different colours next to each other one being routed through the others reservoir

for a Case you should use a Hyte Y70t. tons of glass to showcase from many different angles. The 45 degree double corner for an added element "Showyness", you can run a loop in between the displays in the 45 degree corner to either the Vertical GPU or to the CPU.

im glad to see jay and gamersnexus have a good relation the only two tech reviewers i even care to watch

FINALLY!! This community is awesome.

The Be Quiet Case you reviewed not long ago sounds like good pick

Falcon northwest would have a nice lineup of a OG-Oversized case for a full motherboard cooling block build with a big space for reservoir custom wide diameter tubed watercooling for just board itself. The gpu can be optional in the air cooling or waterblock addition.

Jay .... need to see this in a Mountain Mods case! You know you wanna do it.

Use them in conjunction with the Singularity quad 560 radiator waterboxes!! Have one desk for the computer and watercooling, and a second for the monitor setup.

this would be cool for a showoff kind of build. with 2 of em you could have 2 independent loops with different color coolants running through. like one loop for CPU and the other for GPU where loop 1 can run through internal routing through manifold 2 and vise versa kinda like the umbrella corp virus tubes.

I would think you could use it by connecting components in parallel i.e. multiple outs (or split after the outlet using T fittings) to each component then each component returns to a separate inlet port

I guess you could have the returns at the top, cascading over water wheels, tipping buckets, etc.

I’d say this is a customisable distribution plate/reservoir and I love the idea of

~10:30 in, you're talking about the fittings not having any sort of clamping ability like external ones. It's not like you need to worry about them leaking at all. :)

Could do some cool stuff with dual loops in this with different coloured fluids etc. Using the manifold as a res for one loop and the internal runs for the other.

Thermaltake The Tower 900. I have one and it is awesome.

Oooh, if you had two loops that don’t connect (say for a GPU and CPU) you could use the reservoir for one with a transparent color and then do several tubes inside with like a glitter color additive. Then you get lines of one color running through your other color. Could look neat

Have them different colors and then loop through each other. Would look so cool

V3000+ rotated layout you have rear distro and front distro

A two loop system would look super cool with two of these. Have one color loop red and the other blue but transparent colored. Then run each loop through each block so the tubes inside the blocks would look purple

We do have a compression fitting small enough to fit inside the distro, it's in your hand at 11:47

Hey jay, I have a new build in the works in the Thermaltake c700 CTE and I will be using 3x280mm rads and a DDC combo pump. CPU and GPU cooled. Do you think I will have any issues or should I get a booster pump? The rad will be side/side/bottom so the highest it will have to pump is the CPU I am removing my Filter from the loop and adding a flow meter for less restriction. Although the filter I have can be used w/o the filter screen just for looks so I may leave it in for that haha. thanks for all you do man!!

Use the inside tube to run a different color through each res/distro combo

Using two make dual loop, one is the rest for CPU but the return tube matrix(?) is the GPU and the other is GPU res with CPU return tube matrix.

Loving the Jerry Rig Everything knife. Creators supporting creators.

I like how much room for creativity this will provide. A waterfall? Sure! Crazy multi loops with different fluids? Heck ya!

If you’re making a build with 2 of those you *have* to make it two seperate loops running the tubes from one through the rest of the other and then having them be different colors

I can see you're building up to a 10-part follow up video series here.

Build double system with double loops that go through each other's reservoir. Then have different color liquids. Product would make more sense if it was sectors of holes and plexiglass+o-ring inserts that are positioned & screwed sandwiched inside the reservoir. Less holes, less fittings, factory finished inserts instead of user erroring pipe bending. Could probably get RGB leds inside the fitted parts through unused holes. And about 500 dollar less of expensive special fittings.

O11 Dynamic Evo, of course! Its just an awesome case, even if its been out a while and its incredibly common.

If you did a duel loop with different color fluid and ran the opposite loop through the others block it might look cool.

Do it Jay! We wanna see the temp/performance stats! Do eeeet!

Would be interesting to see this in a Fractal Design case. Haven't seen many watercooling builds in them.

I wonder if you could combine this with copper tubing and get something insane like the LTT chiller and use one loop to cool the fluid for the main loop as to avoid condensation issues from sub zero temps. Essentially by running the warm end of the loop of the main systems cooling through the sub zero fluid from the chiller to remove more heat from the liquid. It's completely excessive and entirely niche but could be fun.

Copper tubes running into the reservoir from another reservoir. filled with ice water made by a EK TEC cooling block would be a sick build.