Beginners question about watercooling

Notorious Lee

Notorious Lee

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As some of you are aware through reading my previous posts I am in the very early stages of building my own PC for the first time & would like to know more about watercooling.

If anyone know's of any literature they can point me in the right direction of I would be grateful regarding how they work & how to construct a watercooled system.

If you have a watercooled PC does that eliminate the need for noisy fans?

Also, considering a am a beginner is constructing a watercooled system a good idea or is it fairly simple?

The case I am thinking of getting is the Akasa Eclipse 62 so has this case enough room for a watercooled system?

Thanks.
 
The best advice I would give a first time watercooler is to probably go for the Swiftech kit.

A lot of people say kits are bad, which is correct except for kits which are basically custom parts put into one box and sold as one item.

Some shops do custom kits, but I think value for money wise the Swiftech kit is hard to beat.

You get in the kit:
  • Swiftech Micro-res - Great for the Eclipse, as it fits perfectly to the side of the 5.25" bays. Great res and well designed with the 45% angle acrylic piece inside. This forces all water to the bottom of the res so it doesn't break the surface level and make noises.
  • 665 DDC Pump, which are not the best pumps but not far off either and they have good reliability unlike the DDC2 (Swiftech 335 etc) pumps.
  • Swiftech 120.2 Radiator, second to only thermochill radiators.
  • Tubing and barbs
  • MCW60 (Ultra+) which is one of the best GPU blocks on the market. I say the Maze5 and the MWC60 are just as good as each other.
  • Apogee - Ok, not the best CPU block by any means but not bad. You would want to swap this for a FuZion or a ApogeeGT.
If you want the best go custom, and do as I said above:

Basically the same but swap out for a thermochill rad, DDC2 pump and FuZion/ApogeeGT.
Yes, watercooling generally eliminates the need for noisy fans. The rads can handle a high heat load and only need air at a low CFM to disipate the heat. Unless you overload the rad which I think it hard unless you try running a clocked quad, NB and SLi/CF cards on a 120.3 rad.
 
I wouldn't recommend watercooling if this is your first ever PC build.

I'd get some experience in building, tweaking and overclocking on stock or cheap aftermarket air cooling before taking the plunge.
 
dante6491 said:
ive read somewhere that swiftech are replacing the normal apogee with the GT in their kits, dont quote me on this though
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I have just got the Swiftech Apex Ultra kit and it came with the Apogee GT.
 
DaveMac said:
I wouldn't recommend watercooling if this is your first ever PC build.

I'd get some experience in building, tweaking and overclocking on stock or cheap aftermarket air cooling before taking the plunge.
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Take this advice tbh. Build a pc for this first time is stressfull enough without having to worry about leaks etc.
 
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