Compact WC Advice.

[Mr_White]

So I have a build planned and the case is already mocked up etc. But the project is essentially to squeeze the most performance into the smallest cube possible and I want to watercool it, just for the heck of it, and because air is going to be noisy as hell in this enclosure.

So the setup is going to be something along these lines, the thickest 140mm radiator I can find with push-pull fans, say around 100ml res, and a pump like an EK DCP 4.0

Really what I'm trying to ascertain is what's the maximum TDP a loop like this could handle, it needs to cool the CPU and the GPU, and the performance doesn't need to be stellar, I will settle for 80c+ on CPU and GPU at load.

So any feedback would be appreciated so I can try and spec the hardware accordingly to what this sort of setup could cope with without exceeding the maximum operating temps of the hardware involved.

Thank you!

 

[andybird123]

for a 140mm rad, the best fan I can find is the SilverStone FHP141

you could get away with say a 30C over ambient water temp, but you'll need to check the tubing you buy will be ok with 50C water

I think you would be able to stretch to maybe 350W, possibly even 400W, but it won't be particularly quiet I wouldn't imagine
nvidia cards run much cooler than AMD equivalents, so that would help your cause
you could probably do say a 3570k with a mild overclock, plus a GTX670, maybe a 680

I think the nexxxos monsta is going to be the thickest 140mm rad you will find as well

 

[Mr_White]

Thanks for the reply

Sounds like what I'm aiming to do should be possible then. Just for the sake of more data, all things equal, what would you say the difference in cooling performance would be between something like the monsta and an XSPC EX140 which is 50mm thinner? I'm not totally familiar with how the cooling performance would scale.