can you spec me a water cooling kit please ?

jamieufc

jamieufc

jamieufc

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Hi the noise out of my PC is driving me mad! or maybe thats just a excuse to upgrade to water cooling.

Can you spec me all the stuff I will need please including a decent case with loads of space.

Budget £300

Want to water cool CPU and graphics card. Can you water cool hard drives ??
 
well i had same problem antec 900 bit noisy so i got water cooling but then when i switched the big fan on top and switched 2 in front to low speed my mob temperature jumped up from 30 c to 45/50 so im still using all the fans and water too, but maybe it was crap mob so im changing mine to tomorrow to p5k deluxe

im not sure you can water cool drives but everything is possible
 
the external water cooling kits seem so easy to install and nightmare free. can they perfrom any were nere as good as internal water cooling ?
 
jamieufc said:
the external water cooling kits seem so easy to install and nightmare free. can they perfrom any were nere as good as internal water cooling ?
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Nope,buy a swiftech kit as they come with everything you will need and they are great for the money.
 
No, they can't and they won't do much better than good air.

If you're serious about it, water-cooling really isn't hard. Look through the gallery and see how many people have produced beautifully installed systems.

Thermochill PA120.3 with YateLoon fans attached to the back of the case with a Swiftech Radbox
D-Tek Fuzion or Swiftech Apogee GTX
18W DDC pump with the Petra top
7/16" Masterkleer tubing over ½" barbs
GPU block specific to your card and as I don't display your sigs I have no idea which gpu you have.

No many hard-disk water-cooling solutions and you really shouldn't need to.

Put the whole lot in an Akasa Eclipse.

Google the part names for prices and availability. If you can't be bothered to do that, buy some ear-plugs :p
 
MikeTimbers said:
No, they can't and they won't do much better than good air.

If you're serious about it, water-cooling really isn't hard. Look through the gallery and see how many people have produced beautifully installed systems.

Thermochill PA120.3 with YateLoon fans attached to the back of the case with a Swiftech Radbox
D-Tek Fuzion or Swiftech Apogee GTX
18W DDC pump with the Petra top
7/16" Masterkleer tubing over ½" barbs
GPU block specific to your card and as I don't display your sigs I have no idea which gpu you have.

No many hard-disk water-cooling solutions and you really shouldn't need to.

Put the whole lot in an Akasa Eclipse.

Google the part names for prices and availability. If you can't be bothered to do that, buy some ear-plugs :p
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Thanks for your input mate I want to make the Best cooling solution possible for best overclock. I take it the parts you listed are top of the range and very popular with members on here ??

Have £300 to spend if needed.

8800 GTX
Q6600
IP35 Pro
 
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with so many posts from MikeTimbersI, who no doubt knows his stuff think I am gonna just buy all the stuff you guys listed and study how to fit the hole lot.

Is there anything else I will need to buy from the list below to save me having to pay more postage costs for forgetting something

Thermochill PA120.3 with YateLoon fans attached to the back of the case with a Swiftech Radbox
D-Tek Fuzion or Swiftech Apogee GTX
18W DDC pump with the Petra top
7/16" Masterkleer tubing over ½" barbs
EK block for 8800 GTX
Akasa Eclipse PC case
 
No real reason to use an Eclipse case, all the other parts are great, remember barbs, coolant(or a diy mix), anti kink coils if you need them, also a reservoir. xilence fans are quieter then yate loons at 5v.

edit: also clips for the tubing if you want, don't really need them if you use the recommended barbs and tubing
 
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It helps to fill up the system and bleed it of air bubbles, look through the watercooling gallery to get an idea of how they look like and where to put them. One thing to make sure it that a reservoir outlet needs to go to the pump inlet
 
thanks for input guys !! This is gonna be a real mountain for me to climb to put all this 2gther when I havent got a clue what most parts are for and were to put them.

Will have a search around the web or might even consider paying someone to do it for me
 
Dont go for the Apogee GTX unless you plan on using the optional copper top. The standard plating on the top comes off after which will intoduce aluminium and therefore galvanic corrosion into your loop. As its your first build the D-tek fuzion is a better block 'stock' as the gtx needs bowing to beat it.

You should also consider the EK Supreme which is at least on a par with the D-tek but more restrictive.
 
w3bbo said:
Dont go for the Apogee GTX unless you plan on using the optional copper top. The standard plating on the top comes off after which will intoduce aluminium and therefore galvanic corrosion into your loop.
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Any links to that? First I've seen of that as a reported issue and as I have the standard GTX and have already seen what galvanic corrosion did to my SlitEdge I'd rather not have it again!
 
jamieufc said:
with so many posts from MikeTimbersI, who no doubt knows his stuff think I am gonna just buy all the stuff you guys listed and study how to fit the hole lot.
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Thanks but I have never bothered to cool a gpu so know next to nothing about those at all.

Yes, I missed a reservoir out of the parts list because I tend not to use them but the Swiftech MicroRes is highly regarded. I prefer T-lines as they are dead cheap to do and take up less space.
 
Here ya go Mike - time to get out the wallet and get a copper top;).

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