Water Cooling Set-up Advice

Bensonince · 3 Feb 2011 at 20:36

Hi All,

This is my first post so I hope I have got it correctly located within the Forum. I have built many PC's over the years for personal use but have finally decided I would like to try out a water cooling solution.

I have Crossfired two XFX ATI 6970's on a gigabyte P67A-UD7 motherboard. The CPU is a Sandy bridge i7-2600K 3.40 GHz and sitting in a Cooler master HAF X gaming Tower Case.

After some research I have found the following which I believe will provide a complete set, however I'm not sure about the products or if I need any extra connectors or converters from the 1/2 inch to the 1/4 inch or if they are provided with devices, any advice on the setup and recommendations is greatly appreciated.

Water Cooling Kit:-

EK Full Cover Waterblock for ATI 6970: FC6970 Nickel Acetal * 2
Ybrix Black Sun CPU Waterblock for Intel 1155
Laing D5 (MCP655) Vario Pump for 1/2" ID Tube
Hardware Labs Black Ice GT Xtreme 560mm Quad Radiator : GTX560
XSPC 5.25" Dual Drive Bay Reservoir Clear: BR525Dual
Feser Aqua Cooling Fluid (bi-distilled) 1Ltr - plus thinking of mixing with 25% antifreeze
XSPC 1/2" ID - 3/4" OD(13-19mm) High Flex Tubing
Zinc Plated Worm Drive Hose Clip for 3/4" (19mm) Outer Diameter Tubing

Thanks for any help I receive.

Frozennova · 3 Feb 2011 at 21:36

Looks good other than a couple of small points.

Swap the 1/2 tubing for 7/16 tubing as its a much tighter and more secure fit over 1/2 barbs.

Look at higher quality CPU blocks such EK Supreme, and finally don't use anti-freeze it does't have any anti-algae propeties as I found out for myself, use a silver kill coil or Mayhems Biocide along with distilled water.

TheCenturion · 3 Feb 2011 at 21:43

Looks good. As above, no antifreeze. distilled or deionised water is fine. you also want a better cpu block.

Bensonince · 3 Feb 2011 at 22:07

thanks

thanks for the information, will take a look and look at changes

Sgt Tackleberry · 3 Feb 2011 at 22:28

frozennova said:
Looks good other than a couple of small points.Swap the 1/2 tubing for 7/16 tubing as its a much tighter and more secure fit over 1/2 barbs.

+1.

good luck when you do it and post some picture up when you are doing it

Bensonince · 3 Feb 2011 at 22:34

Will do.

Apem · 3 Feb 2011 at 22:50

Curios to how your going to mount or place the rad?

Bensonince · 3 Feb 2011 at 22:57

Good point, I haven't a clue, also what are peoples feelings are water chilling?

stylus pilot · 4 Feb 2011 at 20:54

You can mount various 360mm radiators into the top of the HAF X, I'm not sure about the fan clearance if you want to go push/pull though.

As others have said, forget the anti-freeze, cheap de-ionised water + silver kill coil is the way forward.

OLDPHART · 5 Feb 2011 at 12:31

+2 > 7/16" tubing on 1/2"fittings + distilled water £4-5ltr and silver coil £4 far cheaper will perform just as good as the Fessa and it will work out cheaper in the long turn. How about using compression fittings look a lot smarter and just as good as barbs also just as easy to use, using them myself but its up to you at the end of the day.

Bensonince · 6 Feb 2011 at 19:12

Hi all, Thank you for the information provided, I have now just purchased it all. Below is the compiled result of what I hope is the right choices.

Black Ice GT Xtreme 360 Radiator
SFM-1000 Nexus Silicon Anti Vibration Fan Mounts
4 pieces Ultra Soft Silicon : SFM-1000
mCubed HFX 113 T-Balancer BigNG Cooling Controller
EK Supreme HF High Flow CPU Waterblock
2 * EK Full Cover Waterblock for ATI 6970 Graphics Card : FC6970 Nickel Acetal
1/4" Thread Varible Single Slot SLI & CrossFire VID Fitting
Laing D5 (MCP655) Vario 12V Pump for 1/2" ID Tube
XSPC 5.25" Dual Drive Bay Reservoir Clear : BR525DUAL
De-ionised Water 1 Litre
XSPC 7/16" ID - 5/8" OD (11-16mm) High Flex Tubing
Barb Fittings:6 x 63250 1/2" ID Silver Barbs
Compression Fittings: 2 x 62150 1/2" ID - 3/4" OD Silver Compression ( just to see the difference)

Will post up some photos once its in and hopefully working

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Thanks all