GeForce Garage Presents: Bending Copper Pipes for PC Water Cooling

If you’re a water cooling enthusiast (and perhaps even if you’re not), you’re probably aware that, for the longest time, coolant has circulated from the reservoir to the water pump to the water block(s) via flexible tubing (usually made out of PVC).

Recently, though, there has been a bit of a revolution in the field. Instead of flexible materials, rigid ones are coming more into vogue. For example, some companies (Alphacool and PrimoChill, to name just a couple) started selling rigid acrylic tubing a couple of years ago.

But what if you want something else entirely?

Something like, oh, copper pipes?

NVIDIA’s GeForce Garage shows you how to work copper pipe into your water-cooled PC.

The nine-minute video featuring Richard Surroz (“DarthBeavis”) will give you all the knowledge you’d need should you ever want to experiment with using copper pipe in your next water-cooled PC build. The video shows not just the techniques, but also the necessary tools and how to use them, to be able to straighten and bend copper pipe.