External Watercooling or New Case?

deus3x

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My Specs:

Midi Tower Case Which will NOT hold internal watercooling :(


920 DO @ 3.8ghz
Thermalright TRUE Copper
Asus 5850
Gigabyte Extreme X58
Intel 80GB SSD

Thinking Water cooling the CPU & Gfx, the motherboard has a waterblock on-board so another option.

The question is who runs external watercooling, or should I get the Corsair 800D?
 
What case do you currently have?

I have a radiator sitting outside my case externally, and other than aesthetics, it does the job fine.

How-ever, I do constantly feel the urge to buy a bigger case and get it all internal
 
Nothing stopping you getting all your water gear, mounting the rads externally, and if it doesn't work out or you don't like the look then get a bigger case. You've lost nothing but a bit of time and effort. My rads are currently external, on top of the case and work perfectly fine, though weirdly I plan to get the 700D when it becomes available and put everything inside. I'm not usually bothered about how my case looks, its just the 700D is such a water cooling friendly case I can't hold off any longer.
 
I will consider the kit and mount externally. I looke at the 700D and its basically the 800d but £20 cheaper. Have i missed anything?

Worth watercooling the Gigabyte X58?
 
The 700D has a tad more usable space inside the case as a result of removing the hot swap bay circuitry, space which can be used to fit water cooling gear. However you lose the side window, though its a simple job to cut your own if you want. That's why I am waiting for it.
 
Bubo said:
The 700D has a tad more usable space inside the case as a result of removing the hot swap bay circuitry, space which can be used to fit water cooling gear. However you lose the side window, though its a simple job to cut your own if you want. That's why I am waiting for it.
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thanks for the heads up. :D

Ill get sorting my Water cooling parts then decide.

cheers again
 
You could get a radbox like the swiftech ones and install a 240mm radiator outside the case and having the pipes go in through a PCI slot. Im no expert on watercooling but I'm thinking about watercooling myself and I have a smaller case (coolermaster sileo 500) and looked at the option of using a swiftech kit.
 
rumble291 said:
You could get a radbox like the swiftech ones and install a 240mm radiator outside the case and having the pipes go in through a PCI slot. Im no expert on watercooling but I'm thinking about watercooling myself and I have a smaller case (coolermaster sileo 500) and looked at the option of using a swiftech kit.
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Its a good point. If i had a external casing where i it would hold the rad and pump id be happy as i could the run some piping with shutoffs and connect where i want.
 
deus3x said:
Worth watercooling the Gigabyte X58?
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Most people will say no :p

I'm shortly to watercool mine (the UD7), although mine has a copper waterblock. I suspect yours is aluminium so you'll need to watch out for corrosion issues.

Generally the thought is that a northbridge waterblock adds unnecessary restriction and heat to the loop without really boosting performance. I however feel that my northbridge is quite toasty so it may give me higher clocks when cooler, plus I want to use the PCI-e slot that the uber heatsink takes up.
 
I can have 4ghz stable with a fan pointed at the motherboard, but not with the fan missing. I'm fairly convinced that watercooling the board is a good idea, but like miniyazz, I've noticed this goes against popular opinion.

An option which I don't think has been mentioned is a case dedicated to watercooling, to which which you run a couple of tubes from the computer. Pretty much just radiators, possibly with a pump, in a box. It tends to be called a radbox, causing confusion with swiftechs mounting bracket.
 
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