Advice appreciated on Water cooling Setup - First Build

THFC · 13 Apr 2012 at 21:13

I have a Tj08 like above with the 180mm silverstone fan intake.

I want a watercooling setup as pictured above but Cpu only. OCUK don't sell the 200mm rads so I will have to get elsewhere. the xspc raystorm looks nice too along with white tubing.

Gfx card is a 560ti twin frozer so therefore is being left untouched as i believe they are custom pcb. The capability to expand the loop when a new card is purchased maybe in a year or so would be of benefit.

I have an i5 2500k on an asus gene z gen 3 currently stock cooling not overclocked. 8gb low profile ram. Corsair 520w psu

I really want to overclock the hell out of it - advice for parts for a loop appreciated as this seems the most informed water cooling board I have been on and generally Ocuk has lots of stuff to choose from.

The quieter the system the better

THFC · 13 Apr 2012 at 21:17

This is on members market - would this suit me -

XSPC DDCRES18W Laing Pump & Res, this is the MCP335 18w Pump. Boxed complete as new. looking for £48 incl del, paid £78 just under 2yrs ago.

UPDATE - Now sold elsewhere

pgi947 · 13 Apr 2012 at 21:59

If you plan to expand the loop into the GPU as well at a later date then general consensus here is 120mm rad per component, so perhaps see if you can squeeze a 120mm rad in the back?

THFC · 13 Apr 2012 at 22:04

Yes can fit a 120mm rad at the back and a 200mm or 180 at the front if required

pgi947 · 13 Apr 2012 at 22:12

200 + 120 would be the way to go I would say, but if its a stretch at cost you could always leave the 120 out until you get around to adding a GPU into the loop.

Pump-wise, you'd be better waiting for one of the resident experts to fill you in, I'm pretty new to WC myself

THFC · 13 Apr 2012 at 22:28

Thanks

THFC · 13 Apr 2012 at 22:37

I thought OCUK were selling EK pump and reservoir combo's on here they seem to have dissappeared and are listed individually

THFC · 13 Apr 2012 at 23:13

Swiftech MCP35X PWM DDC 18W Pump : MCP35X

Digging on the internet this and the reservoir with pwm sound good

Why is it watercooling stuff is out of stock on OCUK and everywhere else?

pgi947 · 13 Apr 2012 at 23:20

Not sure about everywhere else, but afaik OcUK are currently having a major re-fresh of their WC products, some older produce is being phased out for newer stuff