Thinking about watercooling my pc....

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Hi i am thinking about investing in watercooling, i currently just use fans and im sick of the amount of dust and my pc kicks out some heat at times.

Now i have never done anything like this before and i just built my pc the other year. At a rough price what am i looking at and would i need to change all my motherboard ect to be able to do this.

Any advice would be great.

thanks :D
 
Watercooling won't help with dust - try vacuuming your room more often.

A decent CPU loop you're looking at £250+, add a GPU and you're talking closer to £400.
 
it can get into scary money very easily and very quickly, wont need to change motherboard or anything at all. if you post your full spec im sure someone will put up a list of items that you would need. also going by previous experiance a budget would be good as well to what you would like to spend, that way you wont end up with baskets for 6-700 quid a go.
 
Go ahead and look here:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1428&subid=2363

Choose some filters for your intake fans (DemciFlex are expensive but very good).

If you want to watercool your cpu, you can just install AiO cooler like Corsair h80/h100 or smililar (with radiator located at your case's intake so cold air from outside is pushed thru radiator inside the case, you still need the dust filter outside).

Some cases have a lot of openings apart from fan sockets, you can seal those if you have good enough airflow and save yourself cleaning the dust from inside the rig.

Custom loop can quickly become expensive, as Robert said.
As an example I can show you what's going to be inside my rig and you can build new PC for that:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - XSPC D5 Vario Pump & XSPC Acrylic Tank Reservoir Value Combo £99.00
3 x EK Water Cooling FC Titan & 780 SE (Original CSQ) GPU Water Block - Nickel £85.99 (£257.97)
3 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Xtreme 360 £79.99 (£239.97)
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy Clean CSQ - Acetal £49.99
3 x DEMCiflex Dustfilter Set for 360mm Radiator - Black/Black £19.99 (£59.97)
12 x Enermax Magma UCMA12 120mm Fan £9.98 (£119.76)
Total : £836.33 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Something like this, plus there are few pieces I already have and are not listed here. Of course that is an extreme example.

First question you have to ask yourself is: Are you going to be overclocking a lot?
If not, there is no need to build a custom loop or watercool at all.
Just get a big air cooler with 2 good fans in push/pull.
I can recommend this one, with these fans. Just make sure it fits your case and does not obstruct your ram:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Prolimatech Black Megahalems CPU Cooler £52.99
2 x Akasa AK-FN058 Apache Black Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £9.98 (£19.96)
Total : £82.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).



This and filters on intakes/exhausts and you will be fine.
Anyway, what's your PC?
Go to overclocking section and download a small program called Core Temp, then post your CPU temps here, then we can advice you if you need any changes at all.
 
Thanks for all the usfull info...atm i am at work but could tell you off the top of my head what i have. Atm i am looking at a new case as i have an old one and the fans are packing in. This is what i am thinking.

In-Win GRone Full Tower Windowed Case - White/Black from ocuk

I know it will be expensive but it is sumit i have always wanted to do. Im not rushing into atm and just want some info regarding 'the first build' haha. It will be a while before i would be able to get the money together but im looking at a long term project/investment.

Overvclocking i havnt done before and im not clued up on that yet haha.
 
Okay

I guess you won't need watercooling with this case.
It have good options without that.
This is your basket, including your case:

YOUR BASKET
1 x In-Win GRone Full Tower Windowed Case - White/Black £99.95
1 x Prolimatech Megahalems Rev C CPU Cooler £42.98
1 x DEMCiflex Dustfilter Set for 360mm Radiator - Black/Black £19.99
8 x Enermax Cluster UCCL12 120mm Fan £9.98 (£79.84)
1 x DEMCiflex Dust Filter 140mm, Square - Black/White £7.99
Total : £264.89 (includes shipping : £11.75).




The fans are good and they fit the color of the case very nicely, they also have nicely looking LEDs.
The cooler is an option (with 2 fans on push/pull). You can skip buying it, if you think yours is good enough.
The 360mm dust filter is for top of the case, front looks like it have some sort of dust protection.
The 140mm dust filter is for the rear fan.
 
It upto you at the end of the day l would not go back to Air Cooling, H2o anyday.

Yes it costs but you gain better stabilty, cooling and silence.

How many members reduce there overclock in the summer and admit it.

In my case FTO1 just have 2x 180 fans at 600 rpm with filters and pump is silent. My rad a Phobya 560 is external with 4x140 900rpm fans, DVD-WR is the loudest component in my loop.

Its 21'c in my living room where my PC is and while doing this post, core's are at 16'c to 23'c +/- 1'c see sig.

It takes me about 15 minutes once a month, to give everything a quick check, clean fan filters in case, dust off my external rad+fans and blast everything with air.

Job done as l prefer to do it regular rather than every 3 months or twice a year, its far easier + quicker.
 
To be honest, I have to admit that some of the gear I listed above for my own rig are overkill, but I am also going for the looks. The case is spacious and I don't want it to look to empty.
Plus I wanted to have some extra headroom for the summer :-)
 
remember your pc will kick out THE SAME HEAT if it is watercooled or not. it's not the amount of heat your altering. It is simply where and how the heat escapes. But saying that watercooling is one of the main mods you can do to your pc and it looks damn sexy ;)
 
Haha Love the last comment :D...So with the case i have choosen, if i wanted to in the future would i be able to water cool. ATM fans are the best option i have money wise and is easier.

in the case i have now its not cable managed and i done have dust filters ect and the fact its an older case/cheaper case.

I do use my PC a lot and i play a lot of pc rather than xbox ect,watercooling looks fantastic but i am nervious in trying it haah.
 
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