forgive my ignorance

paradisiac · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:32

sorry for my ignorance but if i bought one of the OC bundles, mainly this what else would i need to buy? i know i would need a case, and some sort of psu but my knowledge on WC is pretty much nil.

manbearpig · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:36

hard drive, psu, case...

RJC · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:37

The water cooler is all in one solution, basically screw the pump / heatsink onto the cpu and place the rad on one of the 120mm fan outlets on the case, connect the power supply to the psu and your away.

You will also need a graphics card and hd to finish off the build

cmndr_andi · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:39

hallo again m8, nice choice in bundle - should be very quick.

The H50 isn't really WC in the traditional sense - it is about as complicated as installing a large tower heatsink (ie pretty simple). Here is a video from corsair showing how to install it.

As well as that bundle, the case and PSU you will also need a HDD, optical drive, OS and graphics card. Are you reusing anything from your old system?

paradisiac · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:40

RJC said:
The water cooler is all in one solution, basically screw the pump / heatsink onto the cpu and place the rad on one of the 120mm fan outlets on the case, connect the power supply to the psu and your away.

You will also need a graphics card and hd to finish off the build

ok thats kool, was panicing i would need to buy pumps and tubes and all. so it would run with my current psu (antec truepower 550w), and in any case or does it need to be a special one?
how safe is watercooling the cpu?

cmndr_andi · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:42

For the case you will need one with a 120mm rear exhaust fan (to mount the H50 rad + fan). This case is rather nice, and a good price.

paradisiac · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:42

cmndr_andi said:
hallo again m8, nice choice in bundle - should be very quick.

The H50 isn't really WC in the traditional sense - it is about as complicated as installing a large tower heatsink (ie pretty simple). Here is a video from corsair showing how to install it.

As well as that bundle, the case and PSU you will also need a HDD, optical drive, OS and graphics card. Are you reusing anything from your old system?

basically i would be reusing the HDDs and possibly the GFX card for a bit as its quite expensive. was hoping my psu i just bought would be ok too for a while. will need a case very soon but if it would fit in mine for a while whilst i saved for a decent one then that would be a bonus. as for optical im hoping either a blu-ray player or writer, and OS is sorted.

RJC · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:45

paradisiac said:
ok thats kool, was panicing i would need to buy pumps and tubes and all. so it would run with my current psu (antec truepower 550w), and in any case or does it need to be a special one?
how safe is watercooling the cpu?

Water cooling the cpu will be fine, I had a custom setup once and even spilled fluid on my gpus, never did any harm

I agree with cmdr_andi regards the pc case, quited below

cmndr_andi said:
For the case you will need one with a 120mm rear exhaust fan (to mount the H50 rad + fan). This case is rather nice, and a good price.

cmndr_andi · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:47

paradisiac said:
. was hoping my psu i just bought would be ok too for a while.

Aye, that 550W PSU will handle an i5 + single GPU system perfectly happily.

paradisiac · 11 Jan 2010 at 20:49

ok kool, still debating whether to go down this road of just get 2xHD5770 and a Blu-Ray drive.