Well I finally did some more testing. I´ve been very busy that´s why it´s been so long, sorry for that.
First these new alphacool fittings. the HF model are vey nice, they look good. Just beware that there are nylon and metal models. make sore you buy the metal ones because the nylon are a bit... to plastiky for my liking, it´s not like they are going to fali, but I don´t know, I don´t feel comfortable tighting them because I was afraid to brake them.. .and it´s just not as nice. that´s all.
Some pics will help.
Here you can see the difference in height between the 90 degree HF fitting (this is the metal one) and a ekwb torque. The alphacool ones are very nice for us who don´t have much room. The EKWB 90degrees adaptor has the nylon Alphacool HF fitting attached to it.
One thing that doesn´t give me much confidence about this alphacool 90 degrees is how it moves around... both of my samples moved the same way, I don´t know wether this is normal or not, but it doesn´t leak so... it works I guess
Then some pics of the fittings themeshelves
Well, and now the dc-lt 2600 and 3600. I did some testing... the improved flow over the 2600 doesn´t give me much improvement, maybe a degree or two, I tried several times and one of them I had a bit worse temperatures than with the 2600 si it depends greatly on how you place everything, but it´s going to be a matter of one degree or two. Maybe if you add a graphics card to the mix this can change, I don´t know.
One thing I can tell you is that the 3600 model is way louder than the 2600. I really don´t understand why but you put them to the same rpm and the 3600 model is just louder, and way louder, it´s not a subtle thing. For me this is a deal breaker, I wouldn´t be using this pump even if it made a difference in temperatures ust because of the worse acoustics.
Lets see how they are different
the dc-lt 2600 is on the left, and you can see that the design of the impeller is not completely different, but they are not interchangeable. Notice the o-ring on the dc-lt 3600 that I bought trying to silence it.. didn´t work out completely but it mutes a bit the vibrations on the 3600. I used it on the 2600 just to test it, and I think the noise has improved maaaaybe a liiiitle bit, but I don´t know if this is myself trying to justificate why I´ve bought all this stuff hahaha
Again 2600 on the left.
And a closer look at the fancy o-ring.
Also, I dissassemble the coldplate again to lap it, and found out that the coldplate bends when you mount it to the rest of the block (captain obvious here lol) so you have to lap it screwed to the rest of the block, wich is what I did at first, but I donñt know why... I thought... "lets try with the coldplate alone it would be less combersome"
the result
And after attaching more work I got something like this
just to mount it -> get worse tmps -> realize I have to lap with everything together -> begin again... It was a happy day.
And to end up. I mounted the Hardware Labs gtx rad into my ncase m1. In order to do this, I have modded (just a prototype, I will draw a case to print) my psu so it doesn´t have a fan, because it´s getting air from the rad anyway... and I´ve measured the temps in there via laser and it doesn´t go much above 45 so it´s fine for now.
The radiator provided a bit better temps, but not much. The big improvement has been that I can have those good temps with the fans at 1200 rpm and not at 1800 like with the original radiator, so I´m very happy noise wise.
The fitting is clooooose to that heatsink... lets hope they don´t leak
