Advice on watercooling my system

Daedalus0451 · 21 Jun 2018 at 21:10

What parts should I get to do it? what's a good guide to follow on doing it? Any general advice on first time watercooling. My budget it pretty flexible, with no real hard limits.

My Specs:
Windows 10
2016 alienware area 51 R2
Intel i7 - 5930K
Titan X (pascal)
32 GB of Ram
Samsung SSD 840 Pro Series

ExRayTed · 22 Jun 2018 at 10:25

Hi and welcome to the forums

I'll get this post moved to the Watercooling section, you'll likely get a better response there.

Dominic-Toretto · 22 Jun 2018 at 15:06

Need more info dude,

Are you wanting to watercool the CPU only?
Other thing that comes to mind is, can you even fit a medium size radiator in that case? Are you willing to change case if not?
And do you want to go hardline or soft tubing?

Daedalus0451 · 23 Jun 2018 at 02:51

The CPU is already watercooled out of the box so I was just looking to watercool the gpu, someone did tell me that I should watercool both at once and take out the watercooling rig that came out of the box but I don't know if that's the way to go. I don't know how big a medium size radiator is I am a total noob to watercooling, but there does seem to be a lot of space in the case.
As said before I am a total noob so I wouldn't know the difference, what would you recommend?

LuckyBenski · 23 Jun 2018 at 20:27

Radiators come in sizes matching case fans - either 120mm or 140mm, and in multiples so a double 120mm fan radiator, would be a 240mm radiator.

I would research the fan slots in your case but it's likely you'll want a case that can accommodate at least 4 slots worth or radiator to do a CPU and GPU loop. So, 2x240mm or a 360mm plus another radiator.

Also, bigger cases just make life easier and water cooling adds several extra components - I'd look for the best case for your needs and go from there.