need help with water cooling

mike123shanx

mike123shanx

mike123shanx

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hey guys so here the system im building

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 5960X Extreme 3.00GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75960X) £769.99
2 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 "Herculez X3 Ultra" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N98V-1SDN-M5DNX) £399.95 (£799.90)
1 x Asus Rampage V Extreme Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR EATX Motherboard £329.99
1 x G.Skill Ripjaws 4 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit - Red (F4-2666C15Q-16GRR) £259.99
1 x Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter CT512MX100SSD1) £154.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £129.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Pioneer BDR-S09XLT 16x BluRay / 16x DVD±RW 50GB Drive - Black (Retail) £57.95
Total : £2,572.34 (includes shipping : £8.00).

i want custom water cooling for the gpu and cpu im having it built into a desk similar to the one by scan the swordfish i was wondering how many rads i would need what size.. how many pumps res and can i do long stretches with tubing? i want to use acrylic thanks in advance
 
BEST look at my system post ever :D

the number of rads is all dependent on the size of rad you can fit in.
as its a desk there will be no pumping up hill so one 18w DDC would be fine, but 2 loops would be better.
 
P4Clock said:
BEST look at my system post ever :D

the number of rads is all dependent on the size of rad you can fit in.
as its a desk there will be no pumping up hill so one 18w DDC would be fine, but 2 loops would be better.
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it will be pumping up the desk like the sword fish not just a flat one components bottom left then watercooling bottom right will be a big desk so size is no problem
 
Max budget?
Any particular color scheme you want to follow?
Do you want performance or quietness or middle ground?
Are you going to overclock?
Are you going to watercool the mobo/ram?

I'll happily help out :).

Otherwise assuming budget as much as your comp, running two loops quietly;

YOUR BASKET
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC980 GTX - Acetal £79.99 (£159.98)
2 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 360 £64.99 (£129.98)
2 x Laing 10W DDC-Pump 12V DDC-1T £54.98 (£109.96)
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £49.99
2 x Bitspower Z-Multi 250mm Water Tank £39.98 (£79.96)
2 x Three Fan Bundle - Parvum Systems F1.0 Performance Fan - Black £28.99 (£57.98)
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-DDC X-TOP CSQ - Acetal £15.98 (£31.96)
6 x E22 Ultra Clear 12/10 Hard Acrylic Tubing 500mm Length £4.99 (£29.94)
22 x EK Water Blocks EK-HD Adapter 10/12mm - Black £2.99 (£65.78)
Total : £730.54 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Add your coolant and youre good to go. Lob in a fan controller or two (lamptron) and you can control how loud/performance it is.
 
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Mynight said:
Max budget?
Any particular color scheme you want to follow?
Do you want performance or quietness or middle ground?
Are you going to overclock?
Are you going to watercool the mobo/ram?

I'll happily help out :).

Otherwise assuming budget as much as your comp, running two loops quietly;

YOUR BASKET
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC980 GTX - Acetal £79.99 (£159.98)
2 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 360 £64.99 (£129.98)
2 x Laing 10W DDC-Pump 12V DDC-1T £54.98 (£109.96)
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £49.99
2 x Bitspower Z-Multi 250mm Water Tank £39.98 (£79.96)
2 x Three Fan Bundle - Parvum Systems F1.0 Performance Fan - Black £28.99 (£57.98)
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-DDC X-TOP CSQ - Acetal £15.98 (£31.96)
6 x E22 Ultra Clear 12/10 Hard Acrylic Tubing 500mm Length £4.99 (£29.94)
22 x EK Water Blocks EK-HD Adapter 10/12mm - Black £2.99 (£65.78)
Total : £730.54 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Add your coolant and youre good to go. Lob in a fan controller or two (lamptron) and you can control how loud/performance it is.
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colour scheme black and red apart from that no real budget
 
Mynight said:
Max budget?
Any particular color scheme you want to follow?
Do you want performance or quietness or middle ground?
Are you going to overclock?
Are you going to watercool the mobo/ram?

I'll happily help out :).

Otherwise assuming budget as much as your comp, running two loops quietly;

YOUR BASKET
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC980 GTX - Acetal £79.99 (£159.98)
2 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 360 £64.99 (£129.98)
2 x Laing 10W DDC-Pump 12V DDC-1T £54.98 (£109.96)
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £49.99
2 x Bitspower Z-Multi 250mm Water Tank £39.98 (£79.96)
2 x Three Fan Bundle - Parvum Systems F1.0 Performance Fan - Black £28.99 (£57.98)
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-DDC X-TOP CSQ - Acetal £15.98 (£31.96)
6 x E22 Ultra Clear 12/10 Hard Acrylic Tubing 500mm Length £4.99 (£29.94)
22 x EK Water Blocks EK-HD Adapter 10/12mm - Black £2.99 (£65.78)
Total : £730.54 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Add your coolant and youre good to go. Lob in a fan controller or two (lamptron) and you can control how loud/performance it is.
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Another question will that setup have a problem with long runs ? Also how do I get really long cables lol for PSu mb etc
 
How long a run are we talking? If greater than 3metre tubes for entire run I would consider getting the updated pump model which is £9 more per pump. Which will easily handle that length.

You wouldn't need long cables really. I assume the psu would be on the left with the main components the only cable you'd need to run to the right hand side would be power. So if you go for a fan controller you'd need a single molex cable (pretty sure ocuk sell extenders) to the fan controller then run everything off the controller. At the moment I have a lamptron fc touch running a single ddc pump and 18 fans. So it will have more than enough power for your setup.
 
Mynight said:
How long a run are we talking? If greater than 3metre tubes for entire run I would consider getting the updated pump model which is £9 more per pump. Which will easily handle that length.

You wouldn't need long cables really. I assume the psu would be on the left with the main components the only cable you'd need to run to the right hand side would be power. So if you go for a fan controller you'd need a single molex cable (pretty sure ocuk sell extenders) to the fan controller then run everything off the controller. At the moment I have a lamptron fc touch running a single ddc pump and 18 fans. So it will have more than enough power for your setup.
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You seem to know allot more than me so I'll ask for your opinion would you go for a normal desk like the Harbinger or have one similar to scans my friend is making the desk for me
 
mike123shanx said:
And yes I will be over clocking
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Good to hear. I've specced the rads with a 20% increase of heat dissipated over stock at 2000rpm (just realised the fans I specced only run at 1500rpm. I'll have a look around as they stopped making my favourites :(). The rads will get rid off ~ 500w at 1600rpm. Should be relatively quiet when not at full pelt :).

mike123shanx said:
You seem to know allot more than me so I'll ask for your opinion would you go for a normal desk like the Harbinger or have one similar to scans my friend is making the desk for me
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Personally I'm a huge fan of pc in desks, as to knowing more about them I wouldn't go that far. On looks alone the harbinger wins easily for me. I'd consider designing your own if your mate is building it. Think of how you want it to look then size up from there. I'm sure people here would be willing to help. If you look in the project logs area there's some epic desk builds.

And I'll be water cooling my first gpu this weekend so I'm not hugely experienced :D.

May I be nosey and ask what you're using this pc for?
 
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Mynight said:
Good to hear. I've specced the rads with a 20% increase of heat dissipated over stock at 2000rpm (just realised the fans I specced only run at 1500rpm. I'll have a look around as they stopped making my favourites :(). The rads will get rid off ~ 500w at 1600rpm. Should be relatively quiet when not at full pelt :).



Personally I'm a huge fan of pc in desks, as to knowing more about them I wouldn't go that far. On looks alone the harbinger wins easily for me. I'd consider designing your own if your mate is building it. Think of how you want it to look then size up from there. I'm sure people here would be willing to help. If you look in the project logs area there's some epic desk builds.

And I'll be water cooling my first gpu this weekend so I'm not hugely experienced :D.

May I be nosey and ask what you're using this pc for?
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sure gaming streaming video editing but mainly gaming my current pcmi have had for 6 years time for change haha...


Wish I had someone near me to help me with putting water loop together wise once I got the desk :P
 
Where are you? It's not an unknown request and I think a couple of times members have helped out another.

However it is easy just have to be careful :).

Rather powerful build for what you mention(jealous obviously:D) but you could save a fair few bob here and there on similar parts. Unless money isn't an object for you.
 
Mynight said:
Where are you? It's not an unknown request and I think a couple of times members have helped out another.

However it is easy just have to be careful :).

Rather powerful build for what you mention(jealous obviously:D) but you could save a fair few bob here and there on similar parts. Unless money isn't an object for you.
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I'm in mansfield near Nottingham it isn't that money is not an object it's just I haven't had a new pic for like 6 years mine is terrible so I will keep it for quite a long time ......


Feel free to throw a setup together for me and I'll have a look haha
 
Well it's a damn sweet set up but off the top off my head Id suggest considering a 5930k rather than the 60x you'll lose two cores but unless you're doing some seriously heavy video editing I doubt you'll miss the extra cores too much. You'd also probably save quite a few hundred on the cpu alone.

Motherboard wise the extreme is aimed at the high end overclockers sub zero guys. I've got the x79 version but that's because ocuk was out of stock of the saber tooth and I was impatient. I wouldn't trade it for the world now but I'm not doing it justice with my modest overclocks.

Are you running high res or high hz monitors? If not you could save a bit on the gpu and go with the one for now and upgrade later if needed. 4gb vram will last quite a long time game spec wise and by the time it gets to needing more there would be faster bigger cards out.

What games and programs do you use/play?

Unfortunately I'm over150 miles away so I couldn't help out. Someone else may be able to help out.
 
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Mynight said:
Well it's a damn sweet set up but off the top off my head Id suggest considering a 5930k rather than the 60x you'll lose two cores but unless you're doing some seriously heavy video editing I doubt you'll miss the extra cores too much. You'd also probably save quite a few hundred on the cpu alone.

Motherboard wise the extreme is aimed at the high end overclockers sub zero guys. I've got the x79 version but that's because ocuk was out of stock of the saber tooth and I was impatient. I wouldn't trade it for the world now but I'm not doing it justice with my modest overclocks.

Are you running high res or high hz monitors? If not you could save a bit on the gpu and go with the one for now and upgrade later if needed. 4gb vram will last quite a long time game spec wise and by the time it gets to needing more there would be faster bigger cards out.

What games and programs do you use/play?
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bf cod wow lol df4 css crisis I want to get into video editing and streaming .... If I got the one I originally said it would be future proof for a hi ? Or should I say if u had the option between it or another setup would you go for it
 
If money was no object then I'd go for yours without a doubt. I'd also grab a 4k screen or 2 :D.

Both options would be "future proof" unfortunately even before you buy a pc these days it's out of date lol. There's no telling how the market will go but I would suggest you'll be good for quite a long time with either option.
 
Mynight said:
If money was no object then I'd go for yours without a doubt. I'd also grab a 4k screen or 2 :D.

Both options would be "future proof" unfortunately even before you buy a pc these days it's out of date lol. There's no telling how the market will go but I would suggest you'll be good for quite a long time with either option.
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Buys 5960x 1 hour later breaking news 8970x released xD

I'm look at these desk builds looks kinda hard do I need my tray optical drive tray etc ?
 
If you're building from scratch you can do whatever you want mate. However I must ask please make a build log once you get going :).

Download blender (it's free) and have a play at designing your own desk once you've got the looks and the layout down you can measure up and go from there.
 
Mynight said:
If you're building from scratch you can do whatever you want mate. However I must ask please make a build log once you get going :).

Download blender (it's free) and have a play at designing your own desk once you've got the looks and the layout down you can measure up and go from there.
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I sure will :D can't wait I'm just a little worried because of my noob experience haha
 
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