Closed Loop Water Kits?

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Hey OcUK,

Looking for a little modding project, which of the kits on the market is best for the money, I'm looking to mod it into fitting my GFX card, a 480 gets mighty hot in gaming, so looking for a way to cool it down without a full water system.

Am I right in saying the Antec and the Corsair sets are pretty well the same kits? Also how do OcUK own brand compare?
 
Both the Antec and Corsair AIO's are made by Asetek (think that's how you spell it), I would trust either over the OCUK one, if you wanna cool a 480, maybe the H100 would be best, if that's too pricey/impractical, then I would go for the Antec 920, same as the Corsair H7/80 but also lets you control fan speed via ChillControl.
 
How does the cheapest Antec compare to the H70? Purely asking because a H70 modded for a GTX480 on furmark after 3 hours gives a temp of 60c, much less than the stock 94c
 
Unless you have a unused one kicking about, just make a mini-loop.

Get a full cover block, one of the new micro-pump/reservoir combos and a 120/240 rad, it'll work much better for slightly more outlay, plus the full cover block will work much better.
 
All the 120mm self enclosed are fairly similar to eachither. The Antec and OcUK kits are I believe exactly the same, the corsairs are different. (I think)

Personally, I'd get a V8 kit for £200 and cool your CPU and GPU in one :)

I've seen self enclosed mods and they look ridiculous!!
 
Hmm but that's £200 a 17 year old doesn't have to spend (well, I'm just tight with my money)

Was going down the cheap route purely because it's cheap and water blocks for cards don't come too cheap either. Should just get my dad to build a system as he's a plumber :P
 
If there is some super guide to all the stuff I need and what to do then it's an option I suppose. Cooling the entire cardinstead of just gpu leaves me room for overclocking and if I cool my 2500k then even more overclocking possibility.
 
Silenced said:
If there is some super guide to all the stuff I need and what to do then it's an option I suppose. Cooling the entire cardinstead of just gpu leaves me room for overclocking and if I cool my 2500k then even more overclocking possibility.
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There's one stickied at the top here and a good one on clunk.org :)
 
Unless you are absolutely sure you will never want to expand the water cooling to the cpu then I wouldn't go with with the micro pump/res combo thing. They might be enough for a gpu only loop but nothing more, they are only 2W pumps after all. I know it says "enough to cool a gpu and cpu with ease" on the advert but I have to say I seriously doubt that based on the maximum head the pump can deliver, i.e. 25kPa (2.5m H2O) compared to 150KPa of an 18W ddc. There is someone on here who is doing a loop with this pump, maybe wait until he posts his results. Note the max head the pump can deliver is important for when the loop becomes more restrictive, i.e. when you start adding more blocks, especially a cpu block.

If you want to keep costs down and still use the micro pump then a cheaper option would be to do with a res and just use a T line for bleeding. That way you have £19.99 for the pump + £14.99 for the pump top = £34.98, as opposed to £48.98 for the micro pump and res. This compares to say a DDC 18W for £59.99.

You could get the ddc and no res now, until you decide you want to include the cpu, at which point you just need to buy a res. Whereas if you went with the micro pump you would probably have to ditch that altogether and get a proper pump anyway.
 
The micro pump (alphacool) will suffice for a really low restriction loop, so removing the jet plates will mean it should just about handle GPU+CPU loop
 
Cleeecooo said:
All the 120mm self enclosed are fairly similar to eachither. The Antec and OcUK kits are I believe exactly the same, the corsairs are different. (I think)
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OCUK+Corsair are the same, Antec are different, all made by Asetek.
 
Way to go on giving me a hard choice guys! xD Only sad thing is if I was to go full custom watercooling then I'd as I have a phantom the best place to mount is the top so the LED fans would have to go in order for some with better static pressure?

So what is total cost (Can be guestimate) for watercooling a GTX480, given I have a NZXT Phantom
 
Silenced said:
Way to go on giving me a hard choice guys! xD Only sad thing is if I was to go full custom watercooling then I'd as I have a phantom the best place to mount is the top so the LED fans would have to go in order for some with better static pressure?

So what is total cost (Can be guestimate) for watercooling a GTX480, given I have a NZXT Phantom
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£200 ish?
 
Ouch :/ That's my only issue with doing watercooling. Although gives me bonus of expanding to CPU cooling too and higher overclocks.

I am the king of indecisiveness which makes this hard for me...

How much extra would it cost to watercool the i5 I have?
 
Silenced said:
Ouch :/ That's my only issue with doing watercooling. Although gives me bonus of expanding to CPU cooling too and higher overclocks.

I am the king of indecisiveness which makes this hard for me...

How much extra would it cost to watercool the i5 I have?
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That was in the £200 :)
 
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