Christmas present

Devastater6194 · 27 Oct 2013 at 00:05

So I've been good this year and decided I'd treat myself to a Christmas treat. I am basically planning to redo the whole lot keeping only the CPU block. It will all be in a Corsair Air 540 with the rig that should be in my sig. These are the parts i plan to use plus 2 lightning water blocks ~ £80 which OCUK don't do any more so i can't link.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 360 £49.99
1 x EK-DDC X-RES 140 CSQ - Acetal £41.99
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 240 £35.99
1 x Monsoon 19/13mm (ID 1/2 OD 3/4) Free Center Compression Fitting Six Pack - Red £29.99
1 x EK-FC Bridge DUAL Serial CSQ Plexi £18.98
3 x EK-CSQ Adapter 45° G1/4 Black £7.99 (£23.97)
3 x EK-CSQ Adapter 90° G1/4 Black £7.99 (£23.97)
2 x Monsoon 19/13mm (ID 1/2 OD 3/4) Free Center Compression Fitting - Red £6.49 (£12.98)
2 x Primochill Primoflex Advanced Tubing 19/13 - Clear £5.99 (£11.98)
1 x EK-EKoolants Blood Red £5.99
Total : £267.24 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Currently planning to have the pump+res in the back under the drive bays.
Loop order will be 240mm-CPU-GPUs-360mm-pump
What do you all think?
PS- small side note. OCUK recently announced their Infinity range including the Tesseract http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-390-OE&groupid=43&catid=2474&subcat=2677 and I was wondering if anyone knew how they get the hose through the grommet behind the 240mm up top. They show it from the back but not the front.

Edit- So it seems by sig is not coming up so basically i will be cooling a 3570K and 2 MSI GTX 680 Lightnings.

daveip · 27 Oct 2013 at 00:33

I think that looks good mate! Get a build log up for it

Only adjust I would probably make is that I'd probably have the pump on the floor so it would probably go GPUs ->360. Now that I think about it, the DDC might struggle a bit with the 3 blocks + 2 radiators. I've never tried a D5 or that many water cooling components so can't really comment further on it

Devastater6194 · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:49

daveip said:
I think that looks good mate! Get a build log up for it

Only adjust I would probably make is that I'd probably have the pump on the floor so it would probably go GPUs ->360. Now that I think about it, the DDC might struggle a bit with the 3 blocks + 2 radiators. I've never tried a D5 or that many water cooling components so can't really comment further on it

Forgot to mention i already have an MCP35X so that will handle it. If i have to run it too fast i'll just grab another one at a later date and run them in serial. Or keep it on my current MCR220 and make another loop for the GPUs. Ooh decisions decisions. Look what you've done now

daveip · 27 Oct 2013 at 16:37

Hahaha - Personally i don't see much point in having dual loops in a system aside from for aesthetics.

Resale value of the Swiftech variants of the DDC are pretty high. I would be tempted to flog the MCP35X and buy a D5 vario

Devastater6194 · 27 Oct 2013 at 16:58

daveip said:
Hahaha - Personally i don't see much point in having dual loops in a system aside from for aesthetics.

Resale value of the Swiftech variants of the DDC are pretty high. I would be tempted to flog the MCP35X and buy a D5 vario

Have been tempted as i heard they were slightly quieter but there is the hassle of selling. Plus i didn't know if I'd have room for a D5 but I've just found this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-008-TL&groupid=962&catid=2141&subcat=2145 can't see how I haven't seen it before. Got a sppare DDC3.2 sitting around somewhere as well so could sell that on the MCR220 and the MCP35X with a custom top. That would cover selling costs etc.
I don't generally see the point of dual loops most of the time but I've got a radiator with an integrated pump so all I'd have to do is turn the rad around. Plus I wouldn't need to worry about how to get the hose from the top rad to the pump at the back.