Cooling potential...

Because thick wouldn't fit, and I'm more wondering what I could get away with cooling for long term plan.

Wondering if I could get away with CPU + SLI or would I only be able to cool one gpu?

Probably not overclocking gpus, but may try overclocking CPU..

kd
 
With Thin radiators you'd be hard pushed to cool 2 GPU's and a CPU. In fact I'm pretty sure in terms of performance, it wouldn't be very good. What case are you using? Ever considered mounting externally? Or even buying a bigger case? There are a few good WC capable cases which are very well priced.
 
Yeah, I figured it might be a bit of a push for SLI :S... Hmm, back to the drawing board...

Maybe once I get some more measurements up of potential cases, I'll have more ideas of what I can stretch to rad wise.

Cases are a bit hit and miss at the moment, it's in the name of a large modding project, so I'm going through quite a few ideas. I know the variety of cases I could get inside out, it's just working out what might work... The biggest problem is I'm considering having fun with the roof of the case, and it would basically mean I couldn't mount a rad in the roof. Hence the challenge. Otherwise fitting in enough wouldn't be a challenge.

Saying that, I'm guessing you'd recommend, Switch 810, Shinobi XL, Elysium, Haf X, 800d. Which I've considered a couple of, but they're not going to meet my standards. TJ07 would be ideal if I didn't have to then fork out for the internals to be powdercoated on top...

kd
 
Hmm, quick change in idea, but slightly related, might as well bump this, rather than start a whole new thread.

Would the suggested rads (2 30mm 240mm Rads), be able to cope a i5 and a single 480? I know the standard rule of thumb, but obviously 480 can run quite warm...

Just realised I should actually be able to fit 2 full size 240 rads... so 480mm full size for single 480 and CPU... Guessing to be honest I could run SLI and CPU off of 480..

kd
 
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Well my single 240 slim is doing a grand job of cooling my FX6100 so, if BD runs as hot as people seem to think, 2 of them should be able to handle the heat of a small star :p
 
Hmm fair enough. Yeah, I wouldn't worry at all if it was something like a single 580. i5 runs cool, but the 480 runs like, well a small star actually xD I've seen it hit 93 at load after a good solid gaming session... To be honest, quite excited to get it under water, finally I want have to work to the sound of fans....

kd
 
The only difference between slim radiators and thick radiators is you need to run faster fans on thin radiators to get similar cooling.

If you are looking for slimmer radiators that give close to thick radiator performance take a look at the Swiftech MCR range of rads.
 
I have the Lian Li PC-P50 case which is the same chassis as your Lancool and I know who you can fit a 240 or a even a 360 thick rad in it.

If you remove your hard drive bays and the 5.25" support plate you can mount a 240 rad in the 5.25" bays (this is what I'm planning to do). You could then get a res that can support a DCC pump and bolt that onto the rad and you have yourself one neat and tidy water cooling unit! You can then mount your hard drive in the 5.25" via an adapter and the SSD can go around the back on the motherboard tray. You could go the whole hog and have a 360 rad which would mean sacrificing your optical drive, you could get round this by running an slimline/portable external drive that runs of USB (you case should have 2 USB 2 ports on the front panel).
 
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