Case and water cooling setup advice

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Due to a unexpected acquisition of 3 Swiftech VGA water blocks with 1/2” push fit hose connectors and two Laing DDC-1T push fit pumps I am looking to swap my PC over to a new case and adding a water cooling setup. My PC spec is 3 HD4870 graphics cards with a AMD 1100t CPU on a standard size ATX mother board.

I quite fancy the Coolermaster 960 II case http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-212-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29 though dont know if there will be enough room for all the cooling? If not can any one recommend another compact case that would do the job?

Also could any one tell me what other parts I will require to complete the water cooling side of things? Radiators, reservoirs, plumbing ect

Thanks :)
 
Well as rule of tom thumb you need one at least one 120 rad per chip so in your case you need 1 for the CPU and 3 for the video cards so that's 4 in total which could be 2 240's, 1 360 + 1 120 etc. So for that kind of setup you really need a full tower that can support all of that equipment.

I have a Lian PC-P50 which is mid sized my water cooling setup will have when done 4 rads but in order to accomplish that I've had to make changes to the case but removing the hard drive caddy, removing blanking plates etc. If you don't mind a bit of modding then you could go down this route.

Another thing you could consider to make life simpler if to get a res/pump front bay combo, I'm starting to wish I had done that because I have to mess around with all sorts of brackets and mounts to get everything to fit.

Here's what mine will look like although I think I will change the design a bit to make the water flow to the video card then to CPU then back round to the pump.

Watercoolingsetup.jpg


This is overkill for my needs 4 rads for 2 parts but it should give me ample cooling for overclocking etc but if you went for a similar setup it would be ideal.

Just going back to your orignal point, if you really want to go down this route I would suggest the Bifinix XL is a good starting point for anyone looking to water cool. I know it's expensive but water cooling really has never been cheap and I think for the price they are asking the XL represents great value for money.
 
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