best watercooling kit for a 920?

p3ndldqny2 · 19 Nov 2009 at 01:48

Hey, being a complete n00b to watercooling i would like to ask, if i were to get a 920 what would be the absolute best watercooling kit to get the most out of a 920?

If you cant link to websites (as you're not allowed on here) just mention the make/model

Also, would the kit anybody recommends be able to watercool memory? Is this even worth it?

JonJ678 · 19 Nov 2009 at 02:06

A noob who watercools is a noob with a dead computer. Learn about it before you put water anywhere near your computer.

Overclockers have an astonishing range of water cooling stock at present (or at least did last time I looked) so it's probably not needed to point you elsewhere. However you're going to have to tell us a budget and what size radiators will fit in/on/near your case.

I'm going to watercool my ram, but I'm a touch eccentric. Generally it's not worth doing. The corsair dominator with mips block is about the only viable off the shelf option, ocz flex is usable if you don't mind aluminium in the loop. You don't want aluminium in your first loop.

Any laing pump and a heatkiller block will do. The most expensive heatkiller performs marginally better than the cheaper ones.

atmax1 · 19 Nov 2009 at 13:08

I have the H50 oced to 4.2ghz stress tested and got max of 70c

p3ndldqny2 · 25 Nov 2009 at 00:38

JonJ678 said:
A noob who watercools is a noob with a dead computer. Learn about it before you put water anywhere near your computer.

Overclockers have an astonishing range of water cooling stock at present (or at least did last time I looked) so it's probably not needed to point you elsewhere. However you're going to have to tell us a budget and what size radiators will fit in/on/near your case.

I'm going to watercool my ram, but I'm a touch eccentric. Generally it's not worth doing. The corsair dominator with mips block is about the only viable off the shelf option, ocz flex is usable if you don't mind aluminium in the loop. You don't want aluminium in your first loop.

Any laing pump and a heatkiller block will do. The most expensive heatkiller performs marginally better than the cheaper ones.

Budget up to approximately 200-250 pounds.

Im buying a new case most likely, so size isn't so important. At the moment Ive got a tuniq tower so my case is pretty wide.

PaulyD · 25 Nov 2009 at 09:42

JonJ678 said:
but I'm a touch eccentric.

Quoted for truth!!

To be honest, Jon did actually cover it, HK block and laing pump would be best combo, unsure on how the new swiftech XT performs as a CPU block though. Rad bigger the better where possible but this also includes how deep the rad is.

Definately do your reading up first on watercooling, understand as much of it as possible before putting any parts in, took me a good 6 months or so before i was happy to go ahead and start off a WC project - haven't looked back since