Watercooling

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Since I saw someone on here posting about the Corsair H50, I was quite impressed by it, but then I found out that it's only on par with high end air, so I started looking at other options, what do you think of this?

http://www.xspc.biz/x2odelta450.php

I'm assuming, this being a DIY kit of WC, I can upgrade, and add to it at a later date, but this can be had for £88 on another store, which to me, seems like a good deal.
 
What about this:

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Anything I've done wrong there? (I've spec'd for more tubing as I have RAM which is capable of being watercooled.)
 
Thats not bad, would need couple of extra barbs though.

Whats your total budget and what case do you have?
 
You're not doing anything wrong, but these days the best high-end air-coolers are as good as almost any 120mm radiator setup. To get better you will need a bigger radiator.
 
I've got a Lian Li PC-7, and budget... not sure, just musing right now, as I'm about to bring my server online soon, having 2 boxes running 24/7 may get a bit annoying. So I was thinking of going watercooling, el cheapo northq siberian tiger for the server (it'll surfice for that) and then something for the main PC.
 
To get a bigger radiator, I'd have to mount it externally, wouldn't I?

(Just for clarification, my current cooling setup is, server: Zalman 9500CU, CM Stacker orig with all front bays loaded with 4in3's, and the 80mm up top and 120mm at the back, main PC is Lian Li PC-7, CM GeminII with 2xXilence RW's, 1xRW's front and back and an 80mm up top)
 
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God no, that's a joke :p

Server is a Xeon 3040, 8Gb Corsair, 1.7Tb of mixed disks, and some crappy PCI-e Radeon
Main PC is a Q6600, 4Gb HyperX (I have 4Gb of Flex II too laying around), 2x500Gb R0, and an 8800GTS 320Mb
 
if your going to watercool your ram i'd check what hose size is needed for them, as you might need to go smaller.
 
WJA96 said:
Are you running the rig in your signature?
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Why i asked his rig mate as sure he wouldn't be running that! :D

You speak the truth though, high end air has come a long way recently and a cheap water setup vs high end air on 775 is about the same or sometimes worse!

i7 gets a bit different but need to really spend on a decent rad to get the return
 
Your ram can be watercooled? Corsair dominator with a mips block, or something else? You don't want to watercool the ram unless you have radiator capacity to spare.

You pretty much need a bigger radiator, or a couple of them in an external box. if the budget will do it you could watercool both boxes using an external radiator box
 
MasterPlan1 said:
Since I saw someone on here posting about the Corsair H50, I was quite impressed by it, but then I found out that it's only on par with high end air, so I started looking at other options, what do you think of this?

http://www.xspc.biz/x2odelta450.php

I'm assuming, this being a DIY kit of WC, I can upgrade, and add to it at a later date, but this can be had for £88 on another store, which to me, seems like a good deal.
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That kit you linked to is fine, for what ur after, like others have said only thing letting it down is the radiator, but that is easily upgraded, realisticly if ur only cooling the cpu a 240 rad is fine, but lol i still use a 120 and i have no issues.
 
JonJ678 said:
Your ram can be watercooled? Corsair dominator with a mips block, or something else? You don't want to watercool the ram unless you have radiator capacity to spare.

You pretty much need a bigger radiator, or a couple of them in an external box. if the budget will do it you could watercool both boxes using an external radiator box
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OCZ Flex II. Has everything I need to WC it.
 
Aluminium. Ludicrously restrictive, uses silly tubing sizes. I'd think twice on that one, adding it to a cpu loop will gain higher cpu temperatures, minimal improvement in ram clock, and force you to use corrosion inhibitor with frequent water changes to stop galvanic corrosion destroying the blocks. xtreme were objecting that the modules were not all waterproof, as parts hadn't been sufficiently tightened during manufacture. Cracking the blocks open to repair this hopefully infrequent fault voids warranty.

I wanted to use ocz flex, and tried to think of sensible ways to do so. It boils down to it needs its own aluminium only loop, and the tubing arrangement to send water to the ram is ludicrous or needs a manifold which I couldn't work out how to manufacture. Id be very interested in what exactly it comes with, any chance of a manifold that splits one g1/4" threaded hole into six parallel outlets?

I've changed to corsair purely because the implementation of watercooling is significantly better. Some discussion of this here
 
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Ive got the OCZ flex but am running it without water. Jon, it comes with the adapters so you connect your 1/2" or 3/8" barbs to them and then 4 smaller tubes come off to connect to the RAM. However, these look like the most restrictive adapters Ive ever seen, dont think I'd ever use them lol. Plus the size of the heatsinks in the first place... they're massive and do a great job anyway!

As for the water setup you posted, remember the Thermochill will have different sized threads for the barbs, make sure you get the right ones to go with it :)
 
I have the following equipment and I cool CPU and SLI GPU.

My CPU temps seem to be a little high :(

IDLE : CPU - 55-51-50-56 / GPU SLI - 40.

LOAD : CPU - 70-72-70-67 / GPU SLI - 55.

Alphacool NexXxoS Xtreme II Radiator - Rev. 2
Alphacool Repack-cooling slot Black UV Reserves and Compensating Reservoir
Alphacool NexXxos XP Socket 775 CPU Cooler
Alphacool Laing DDC-Pump 12V Ultra Electronically Commuted Ball-motor Pump
 
anyone running an oc i7 around 3.8 cooled with a 240 rad? Would there be spare cooling capacity to cool my nb on the same loop?

Presumably it'd run

Pump-res-nb-rad-cpu
 
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