So my first full custom water loop.

I have been playing with AIOs last years but I wanted to make the jump for quite a bit to full custom water loop.

After doing my research I settled for soft tubing as I believe it is more forgiving and easier to set up for a newbie.
Beeing an ITX enthusiast, I started already having in mind that wanted to be an ITX build. Researching and planning took weeks if not months. I wanted to keep my case small enough but I was struggling with pump-reservoirs sizes and layouts for all items.
It was not until I stumbled to barrow's cpu-pump-reservoir that I succeded in fitting it in a small case.

Eventhough I bought most of the watercooling from a certain chineese page, what took longest to arrive was the case (almost 3 months of waitting due to shortage in stock)
I had before a cooler master elite 130 (which served me really well, and love how small yet roomy was it for its age) and since I saw first reviews of the NR200P I wanted one. I am really pleased with the case, looks stunning, build quality is amazing. I was suprised with the front panel. I thought it was plastic but turns out to be steel of 2-3mm thick (yea it is not light).

I upgraded to ryzen last winter and soon after I had to replace my old r9 380x as it was giving me lots of problems.
Just bought this 1660 super few months ago as I didn't want to buy an 2000 series when 3000s and big navi was just around the corner.
Now just have to wait for an ITX model...and to have stock!
So maybe for next summer I will replace the GPU (maybe a 3070-3070Ti or 6700xt) and get myself a Ryzen 5000 (5600x is in my sight).

So after building the loop and living with it for few days, would I do something different? Hell yea!
fittings: I struggled so much with this fittings, don't like them at all. the straight ones collar is impossible to tight by hand properly.
I would have bought different 90 fittings, this rigid ones are not good if you are not lucky enough that they are pointing in the direction you want.
Should have bought more male-male extenders to make my life easier.
tubing: I found this bykski 10-16 tubbing quite rigid and difficult to bring where I wanted, specialy on short runs (ITX build: almost all of them) maybe a 8-12 would have been better?
- Gpu block, couldn't find any compatible with my gpu, had to settle with this generic crap (does the job but looks horrible). Plus it makes my rad fans not to fit in the case so I had to put them under it.

Notes:
- Had to install a 60mm noctua fan to cool GPU Vram.
- on the top 2x120mm fans that come with the case, had to replace 1 of them for an 80mm fan because I had interference with PSU cable as I had to mount the psu in the psu-l position to avoid contact with rad 3 way valve.
- I installed a drainage pipe with a tap to easy drain the loop.
- I had to put some rubber feet to improve intake of air from the bottom. Cooler master has stl files of the feet, so I will make new ones that fit inside the original ones to rise the case.
- As it is, using stress test from 1usmus CTR calculator CPU sits around 53ºC.
- While playing with gpu at 100% and CPU at 30-40% I get around 55-60ºC with 35-37C on water temps. I could increase the fan curve but I like it as it is, because the PC is nearly silent.
- I am struggling to control the barrow pump with PWM, luckly it has a manual knob. At minimum I get 1l/min flow, at max around 4.5l/min.
I set it to 1.7-1.9l/min, in this configuration is really silent. At full whack is quite noisy.