Basic GPU & CPU watercooling

Guest2 · 7 Apr 2016 at 07:51

I skimmied over the basics of watercooling thread and to be honest it sounds very complicated.

My ambient temps are quite high as there is not much airflow in my case. Well there is but its in the corner on the floor so it does get air but then just hit the back of the desk and sort of stays there. Having said that idle temps are 35c for CPU (constant 4.7ghz) and 26c GPU

I have the following

Fractal Design R2
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7
GTX 980Ti Classified
i7 4790k (currently 4.7ghz using noctua nh-u14s push/pull)

Could a simple ish loop be bought for CPU and GPU? What else is there to actually watercool, the motherboard chipset headsink?

NoobCannon · 7 Apr 2016 at 08:10

Pointless without airflow You need airflow for the rads. Watercoolong believe it or not is just as much about airflow as air cooling, its just better at getting rid of the heat as you can have a larger surface aera for the air to cool.

TheMadDutchDude · 7 Apr 2016 at 08:33

There's more surface area, but there's also the fact that water is far better at moving heat away from the source.

You'd still need airflow. I didn't think the R2 had bad airflow. Maybe you just need some new fans to help with that.

OLDPHART · 7 Apr 2016 at 10:16

Your case has 3x1000rpm fans- 1xfront, 1xrear, 1xtop that should be ok, how many HDD OR SSD'S installed.

If you can get away with removing the middle HD case do so as this blocks the air flow see if that makes any difference?

Then try taking the side panel off to see if the helps to reduce your temps, If it does its the air flow in your case that needs to be improved.

How warm is your room atm if you can leave a window open slightly to improve room air flow .

My PC is in the corner of a room also but in a alcove at floor level in my PC desk and theres no air flow at all in the room when doors + windows are closed

In the summer l put a small desk fan on the floor pointing towards the alcove improving the air flow around the desk, this reduces my PC temps about 2'c as well as cooling me.