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I would ease your way in before going a full custom loop. You're going to have a big learning curve getting back into PC building it sounds like, adding custom loop complexity on top of that is probably quite a lot to chew off.

What you could do is start with a case and build it for air cooling, but with a plan to upgrade to a custom loop in the future. Great cases for this would be the NCase M1 (but that's not really in stock at the moment) or maybe the Cerberus (which is actually on a Black Friday sale right now).

Both of these cases are excellent air cooling and water cooling cases. There are tons of examples of each that you can base your work off in the future. In the short term, you could build out a system in either of these cases, and spend very little on air cooling, and then do a custom loop later.

That said, if all you are playing are Blizzard titles, there's really no need for a monster PC that would require watercooling in the first place. Overwatch is about the most graphics-intensive game they have, and that'll run on laptops with a 1660ti at 100+ FPS.

<blockquote data-quote="ermac318" data-source="post: 175195" data-attributes="member: 11542">I would ease your way in before going a full custom loop. You're going to have a big learning curve getting back into PC building it sounds like, adding custom loop complexity on top of that is probably quite a lot to chew off.What you could do is start with a case and build it for air cooling, but with a plan to upgrade to a custom loop in the future. Great cases for this would be the NCase M1 (but that's not really in stock at the moment) or maybe the Cerberus (which is actually on a Black Friday sale right now).Both of these cases are excellent air cooling and water cooling cases. There are tons of examples of each that you can base your work off in the future. In the short term, you could build out a system in either of these cases, and spend very little on air cooling, and then do a custom loop later.That said, if all you are playing are Blizzard titles, there's really no need for a monster PC that would require watercooling in the first place. Overwatch is about the most graphics-intensive game they have, and that'll run on laptops with a 1660ti at 100+ FPS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ermac318, post: 175195, member: 11542"] I would ease your way in before going a full custom loop. You're going to have a big learning curve getting back into PC building it sounds like, adding custom loop complexity on top of that is probably quite a lot to chew off. What you could do is start with a case and build it for air cooling, but with a plan to upgrade to a custom loop in the future. Great cases for this would be the NCase M1 (but that's not really in stock at the moment) or maybe the Cerberus (which is actually on a Black Friday sale right now). Both of these cases are excellent air cooling and water cooling cases. There are tons of examples of each that you can base your work off in the future. In the short term, you could build out a system in either of these cases, and spend very little on air cooling, and then do a custom loop later. That said, if all you are playing are Blizzard titles, there's really no need for a monster PC that would require watercooling in the first place. Overwatch is about the most graphics-intensive game they have, and that'll run on laptops with a 1660ti at 100+ FPS. [/QUOTE]

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