3930K Watercooling

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I'm going to be building a socket 2011 computer with a 3930K in the next few months, and I'm starting to think that watercooling would probably be the most sensible solution for cooling one.

Any decent heatsink seems to be coming up to the prices of corsair's watercooling kits, and considering their price, I've started to consider maybe I should just go a proper watercooling set up.

So with that, can anyone help me with choosing a good waterblock, radiator and pump/res for a 3930K?

I already have a TJ07 case so I've got plenty of room for a 360 radiator. I'll probably add graphics cooling to the loop in the future, what would the best value for money blocks be for say 2x 7950s? Would a single 360 radiator be enough for that?

I'm looking to spend around £150 to cool the CPU for now.

Thanks!
 
currently cooling my 3930k setup using a ek supreme hf block got 3x360 rads in my setup but thats cooling the cpu, a gtx480 waterblocked, aquaero 5 lt waterblocked, got a block for the gtx680 also got the asus x79 mosfet waterblock just need to get them fitted into the loop, running a d5 vario at present i may be looking at going to double on the pumps.
 
I think you can fit a 480+360 in the bottom of a tj07, the kit wissel linked too would be perfect and will get you started for when you decide to add to the loop, the pump block and rad are among the best on the market.

Custom water is needed for any high oc on these chips, I can break 70c easily on my 3820 with a 5ghz clock, I would think even th h100 would struggle to keep it under the tjmax.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Custom water is definitely the way I want to go.

If I'm looking at expanding my budget, is there any combination of parts that would be better suited than the XSPC RayStorm D5 EX360 WaterCooling Kit?

Yeah a 480 radiator will definitely fit in the bottom of a TJ07. Obviously, I'd rather not spend £250 on watercooling :P BUT I do get that I could use the parts I buy for many future hardware changes.
 
You can fit a 480 and 240 in the bottom of a tj07 but have to be the thin xspc rads.you wont fit a 480 and a 360 in the bottom with a psu. I know you can get a modded roof to fit a 360 up there if you wanted that instead. For cpu and 2 gpus in a loop i would say the 480 and a 240 would be enough easily! (this is what im running for my 2600k and 2x gtx570 in a tj07)

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Gives you an example how tight it is for a 240 and 480 :-)
 
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Have you possibly got any more photos of your set up? I'd love to see them!

Would thicker radiators work if I were to get a reservoir/pump combo that goes in a drive bay? I'm thinking less as it looks like there'd be quite a bit space for it without the pump.
 
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Have you possibly got any more photos of your set up? I'd love to see them!

Would thicker radiators work if I were to get a reservoir/pump combo that goes in a drive bay? I'm thinking less as it looks like there'd be quite a bit space for it without the pump.
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you can get thicker rads in the bottom of the TJ07, but thinner ones make cable management easier
 
I'm using an EK LTX block on my 3930k and getting mid 40's temps @ 4.5ghz (not tried upping since I switched to WC)

At this stage I would also recommend an EK DCP 4.0 pump - nearly as good as a D5 but half the price - will easily run a CPU + GPU loop with rads and if you expand a lot later you can just add another DCP 4.0 later
 
Andy what rad setup did you have? My 3930k at 4.5 sets at 59 degrees at 4.5. Under an EK supremacy block, d5 pump, 120, 240 rad and a thin 240 rad. I also have a 980ti and mosfet block in the loop. Does that temp sound high? Or do I just need more rads?

Also blocking the mosfets seems to have let me drop my core volts by .1 volts. Can that be right??
 
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I had a 3930k and three titans running on a phobya 1260 rad and 4 x 200mm fans (its the equivalent of 9x 140mm rad space) - get hold of a cheap temp sensor and tape it to a metal fitting - that will give you a pretty good idea of what the water temp is in your loop, mine used to be barely above ambient, like maybe 3-4 degrees at most
 
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