Water Cooling Help

[Skeng]

Hi I'm currently working on a water cooling build. It will be going inside a Coolermaster Cosmos S and the CPU block I have purchased "Impulse due to cheapness" is this.

http://www.zalman.co.kr/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=342

Now to be perfectly honest I'm slowly gathering the comonents to Water cool my PC other the following month so I'm hoping to start learning a lot more about water cooling. As of now I know absoloutely nothing other than that I have a CPU block I need a specific size tubing to fit it which will also need to go with a specific size pump/reservoir/radiator etc.

I'm hoping someone could enlighten me to some pumps and tubing which would go great with this. Now I dont want to be spending hundereds of pounds over some of this equipment I'm looking for quality cheap products.

Anyway to get to the point can someone fire a few recomendation links at me which will go with this CPU block etc.

Remeber I want this water cooling project to be completely internal no external reservoir etc.


Thanks for reading

 

[Skeng]

Bamp

 

[mod1fied]

Aluminium cover eeek.

What exactly are you planning on water cooling? just the CPU?

As a rule of thumb, watercooling shouldn't be done cheaply

 

[Skeng]

Aluminium cover eeek.

What exactly are you planning on water cooling? just the CPU?

As a rule of thumb, watercooling shouldn't be done cheaply

CPU, GPU and possibly North and Southbridge. Not sure if I can find a supporting block for my mobo. So just CPU and GPU for now but dont bother finding a block for GPU. I can handel that

Also whats with the "eek"? Something wrong with Aluminium cover?

And screw going cheap I'll find the parts cheap just blast me some quality stuff that will fit

 

[Kill_Phil]

Also whats with the "eek"? Something wrong with Aluminium cover?

i believe hes refering to the mixture of metal elemets that you will be using which i think can possibly cause corrosion in the loop from what ive researched into for my proposed water rig. but dont take my word fully

 

[PaulyD]

Yep, mixing metals is a bit of a no-no with watercooling as said above corrosion can be a problem, you can get corrosion blocker additives but I would rather elimate that issue to begin with rather than deal with it later.

I would recommend a a good quality thick triple rad for your setup, XSPC, Black Ice and Thermochill all make good ones for this, I have only personally used Thermochills myself and never had an issue with them at all.

Pump wise a 10w DDC would be ideal for a CPU/GPU loop though i'm unsure how restrictive that block is, GPU blocks are quite restrictive as well so may also be looking towards getting a 18w DDC for the extra flow rate (which a high resistive block would prefer and imagine that block to be). You can also get a res top for either of those pumps so that saves buying a seperate one. You WILL need a 18w for sure if adding anything else to the loop

Tubing is down to preference really as very little difference between the sizes, 7/16 is a popular choice around here.