Watercooling

Bubba · 9 Apr 2011 at 08:29

Hey everyone, I have an HTPC i built on a budget and its all working great but its a bit loud.

I have a HD6850 and a AMD 965BE using an asus silent knight cooler but even with the cpu fan at its slowest (controlled by motherboard) it is still a bit loud.

I only have room for a 120mm radiator and was looking at the XSPC 450 RX120 kit as it seems reasonbly priced and a good starting kit.

I know this should cool my CPU just fine but would it be a push to cool my graphics card also with just 1 x 120mm radiator?

My main aim here is for it to be silent on idle, I dont mind a bit of noise under load when gaming etc as I will have music on or something to drown this out.

I wont be doing any overclocking on this system.

Any help or if anyone has any feedback on this kit it would be appreciated.

zulu9812 · 9 Apr 2011 at 09:06

A 120mm single rad for CPU + GPU is quite a stretch.

mjones1 · 9 Apr 2011 at 09:10

zulu9812 said:
A 120mm single rad for CPU + GPU is quite a stretch.

+1
Isn't it possible to have a 120.2 externally?

OLDPHART · 9 Apr 2011 at 19:38

Hi, if you can mount a 360 RAD externally on the rear of the case , l have have a look it may help you, scroll to the bottom bud.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18262305

Bubba · 11 Apr 2011 at 17:52

Cheers for the replies, there is no room outside the case as it is in a pretty small space and temperatures etc are fine but the cpu fan can be a bit loud even on idle and especially now with the warmer weather, last night the cpu was hitting 69c under load although the graphics was only sitting at 67 which isnt a lot for this card considering its stock cooling and I have no case fans.

Ordered the rx120 kit up today so hopefully get it on wednesday and I will see how I get on with just the cpu to start, if I want to do graphics I might be able to fit another 120mm rad into the 5.25" drive bays as I dont use any and have 4 free so could then add in graphics maybe.