1st Watercooling Setup

[seekdestroy]

Well basically I'm looking to watercool my GTX 460 SLI so that I can overclock them as much as possible.

ATM, I'm not limited by temps, so no point cooling my 2500k.

I'm deciding whether to fit a 240 or 360 rad in.

Will a 240 rad be enough? a 360 rad would sacrifice all of my DVD drive slots and my hdd cage.

I'm hoping a 240 rad will do, I've bought a Laing DDC Ultra 18W pump fitted with XSPC resivor top. just wondering a couple things, I've got a while until I will build this, so I want to get everything right.

Here's what I'm thinking atm:

ThermoChill PA120.2 - 240 Radiator (24.5mm)
£47.82 £47.82

2X EK Water Blocks EK-FC460 GTX GS/SONIC - Acetal + Nickel

£56.64 £113.28

Primochill tubing PrimoFlex Pro 19/13 (1/2\"ID) UV-active green - 1m
£5.28 £10.56

Yate Loon 120mm D12SL-12 LED Green - 1350 RPM
£4.39 £8.78

Delivery £7.99
Subtotal £188.43
VAT@20% £37.69
Total £226.12

First off, which rad's are best?

Haven't decided about barbs etc yet. But advice would be really appreciated.

Also deciding over colours still, I want something UV reactive as I've got quite a few UV cathodes and LEDs. I was thinking RED, but I know it doesn't look great under UV. So I might just go with the usual Green. Decided on green tubing and normal colourless coolant. Also, for the coolant I'm thinking of getting some Feser Aqua (is this stuff the best?)

 

[Exsurgo]

Im not an expert on this subject by any means, but I think the setup would cool the 460s to resonable but not exceptional temps. What you could do that would help a fair bit is get a radiator shroud and go for 2 Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850rpm fans connected to a fan controller with temperature monitors and dynamic rpm control, with two yate loons acting as pull fans.

The fans could then spin up to higher speeds when your GTX460s are under load (Gentle Typhoons at 1850 rpm are still pretty quiet.

You could use the NZXT sentry 2 for this with the temperature monitoring and auto control mode, which is suprisingly accurate, and placing the temerature monitors unto the PCB of the GPUs.

I have also heard that the best Thermochill rads are the ones with 15mm spacing.

 

[Avathar77]

are your 460's reference design?

 

[seekdestroy]

Im not an expert on this subject by any means, but I think the setup would cool the 460s to resonable but not exceptional temps. What you could do that would help a fair bit is get a radiator shroud and go for 2 Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850rpm fans connected to a fan controller with temperature monitors and dynamic rpm control, with two yate loons acting as pull fans.

The fans could then spin up to higher speeds when your GTX460s are under load (Gentle Typhoons at 1850 rpm are still pretty quiet.

You could use the NZXT sentry 2 for this with the temperature monitoring and auto control mode, which is suprisingly accurate, and placing the temerature monitors unto the PCB of the GPUs.

I have also heard that the best Thermochill rads are the ones with 15mm spacing.

Hmmm, interesting. Will definately think about that idea. I'm not too fussed about noise, but ATM my 2nd palit (still got stock cooler on) is being very loud.

I've just measured up, If I get a 240 rad, then I would have 3 dvd bay slots left. I was looking to put my HDD/SSDs into some sort of dvd bay.

If I get a 360 rad, I would have no bays left.. I was thinking if I got a 360 rad, in the future I could add a cpu to the loop. But I could add 2 120s If I put my cpu on water.

are your 460's reference design?

Nope, got Palits



So I think I should go with 240 rad, but I don't know which 1 is best.

I like the look of this (the colours):

Also like what he did with the mirror