advice on new loop

adwol48

adwol48

adwol48

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Hi folks looking to make my second ever loop, this one is going to be slightly more ambitous than my previous loop.

right down to cooling its going to have to cool currently a 3770k @4.2 (have z97 bord which may get swapped out latter on if i buy either a4790k or maybe if anything intersting comes from broadwell) and two r9 290x, was going to look into 2 360 rads i have plenty of space as i will be installing in a corsair 780t below is the main parts i've looked at so far all EK (i like their ID) would really wnt to stick to ek parts too except for fittings which i will happily use anything really

YOUR BASKET
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-D5 Vario X-RES 140 (incl. pump) £107.99
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC R9-290(X) - Nickel Rev.2.0 £87.95 (£175.90)
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO - Nickel £52.99
2 x EK Water Blocks EK-CoolStream PE 360 (Triple) £49.99 (£99.98)
Total : £436.86 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).



any advice would be appreciated should also mention i already have 1 of the gpu blocks just waiting for it to come back into stock again
 
No point upgrading your CPU. Haswell/broadwell offer minimal gains over your 3770k.Might be worth flogging the extra board tbh.

The stuff you picked out is solid,you say this your 2nd WC build,you not have any of your old kit that could be reused? Could help save you a few ££'s

Probily worth getting a couple of backplates for the cards aswell :)
 
Unfortunately don't want to re use any of my older wc loop due to it being on my 2nd pc in the living room which I like to be silent. The z97 board is currently in my 3rd pc which is used by the wife which has a g3258 in it. My main concern is the res and pump definitely wanna go tube res and d5 and also the bridges across the two gpus that's the bit that's kind of confusing me currently as there is so many opions for serial parralel etc
 
adwol48 said:
Unfortunately don't want to re use any of my older wc loop due to it being on my 2nd pc in the living room which I like to be silent. The z97 board is currently in my 3rd pc which is used by the wife which has a g3258 in it. My main concern is the res and pump definitely wanna go tube res and d5 and also the bridges across the two gpus that's the bit that's kind of confusing me currently as there is so many opions for serial parralel etc
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Good choice on rez and pump.

As for Xfire bridge, it depends on which mobo are you using.
 
Using a msi z77 mower board from what I remember there is one slot free between the two cards. So that would need bridge with triple spacing??????
 
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