Apogee Drive II or seperate pump and block.... ?

Monkeyspaz5000 · 31 Jul 2012 at 23:08

Which would you go for and why??

Quite like the idea of the apogee drive II for my prodigy build, but would it be sufficient to run a 240 and a 120 60mm rad along with a GPU block?

Any reason to go with a seperate pump/block??

thanks!!

xtremedetailz · 31 Jul 2012 at 23:25

Im sure the Apogee Drive II is a DDC pump housed ontop of an Apogee waterblock so should be very good and more than capable of running what you want.

Tattysnuc · 2 Aug 2012 at 20:29

It's a MCP35X 18W pump which as far as I can tell is a newer version of the DDC range.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/06/01/swiftech-announces-apogee-drive-ii/1

spixelspixel · 2 Aug 2012 at 20:47

advantages of the apogee drive 2 -
saves space
powerful pump

disadvantages -
may be more expensive?
will be harder to fill as the pump will likely be above the reservoir.
you can't use the cpu block separately
mcp35x is noisy

mjones1 · 3 Aug 2012 at 10:36

spixelspixel said:
disadvantages -
may be more expensive?
mcp35x is noisy

It's actually cheaper than buying the mcp35x and a high end block.

The mcp35x is pretty quiet since it supports pwm.

Monkeyspaz5000 · 3 Aug 2012 at 11:07

Yeah - it looks like a good option for me in the Prodigy case.

It is noisy on full whack - but apparently not when under normal use - as stated its PWM.

Now I just need to find somewhere that stocks it!!

spixelspixel · 3 Aug 2012 at 17:41

mjones1 said:
It's actually cheaper than buying the mcp35x and a high end block.

The mcp35x is pretty quiet since it supports pwm.

I know, but he probably wouldn't get a mcp35x pump if he was getting the pump/block separate.

Here is someone who did a similar build with the apogee drive 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WGPa8_hpwc

Looking at the comments he complains about the noise even at the lowest pwm setting which makes the pump run at 1500pm. My standard 12v ddc runs at double that and I wouldn't call it noisy but everyone has different opinions. What may be loud for him might be very quiet for me

Monkeyspaz5000 · 3 Aug 2012 at 19:23

The chap in that vid recently said it was the fans he could hear. Put a voltage reducer on them and silent now