Lian Li PC-50R Proposed Water Cooling Setup

[Freddie1980]

I'm looking at possibly setting up a water cooling loop for my next video card upgrade - a Radeon HD7950. For me my PC is only ever taxed when it's playing games and since even older CPU's are often fast enough with a mild overclock I don't see the point in water cooling the CPU when it's the VGA that does most of the work.

Anyway my case is a two year old Lian Li PC-50R which at the time was the dogs nuts of cases but now there are better mid tower cases but I don't want to spend another £140 on getting a new case. It has two 140mm fans in the top so I thought I might get a 240 rad for 140mm fans which would have been great as these 140mm fans are very quiet but I doubt I have enough space inside the case and would mean re-routing the 8 pin cable from behind the motherboard tray.

I thought about it some more and the only solution I came up with was to remove the hard drive cage completely and the two support plates and mounting the rad vertically. The next stage would be to get some circular brackets to brace the re against the other side of rad while fitting the pump underneath the reservoir.

(inside my case: I'll be removing the hard drive cage and putting the hard drive in the 5.25 bay)

Above the the parts I'm looking, I have no idea if these will all work together or not.

I was also curious about the rads that OCUk have on sale. Apart from the price is the EK-CoolStream RAD XTX much better then the EK-CoolStream RAD XT? If I got a thicker rad would I have to faster fans or could I use slower fans?

 

[Cleeecooo]

The rad thickness doesn't matter when it comes to fan speed. Higher FPI (find per inch) means you need faster fans, slower fans are suited for rasa with low FPI.

The XTX has some temperature improvements over the XT ad it also has a bleed tube

Consider the phobia G change rads.

Also, if you're watercooling, you may aswell stick an extra 120mm rad and a £30 CPU block into the loop

 

[Amidar]

Have a look at post number 4 and click his link.

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=986791

I also have a set of lian-li radiator mounting brackets (brand new) that allow you to mount your radiator in the 5.25" bays.I also have a reservoir mounting bracket to mount your reservoir to the radiator (If you are interested in these let me know & i'll list them in the members market)

 

[Freddie1980]

Have a look at post number 4 and click his link.

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=986791

I also have a set of lian-li radiator mounting brackets (brand new) that allow you to mount your radiator in the 5.25" bays.I also have a reservoir mounting bracket to mount your reservoir to the radiator (If you are interested in these let me know & i'll list them in the members market)

OMG that's fantastic, yes please if you can list a bracket for the radiator and reservoir in the MM I'll take a look. I'm at lunch at the moment so could you list latter this evening?

The rad thickness doesn't matter when it comes to fan speed. Higher FPI (find per inch) means you need faster fans, slower fans are suited for rasa with low FPI.

The XTX has some temperature improvements over the XT ad it also has a bleed tube

Consider the phobia G change rads.

Also, if you're watercooling, you may aswell stick an extra 120mm rad and a £30 CPU block into the loop

Thanks for that. Getting a Phobia Rad might be the way forward since I can match it against the Phobia reservoir.

Would these tubes work with the parts I've selected?

I'm also going to do some modding to the case, I want an extra routing hole in the middle becase at the moment I have two on the side of the motherbaord tray and neither one of them is perfect for the 24pin cable. I might also put an extra plate at the bottom to cover up some of the wires.