Custom Loop cost vs evga hybrids 980ti

[ratters]

After seeing some cards hit £500 how much would it cost to install a custom loop with blocks and also put my CPU on it ? (4770k) case Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow.

How much extra.

Its 300 pound more to buy the hybrids.

Going to have to make my mind up soon.

 

[ratters]

Just to add i plan to buy two 980 tis hence the 300pound extra cost.

 

[MrMD]

Yout lookin at around 350-400 for a loop just for the cards,it will perform better and be quiter than the hybrids. I would budget 400-450 and put the cpu under aswell tho.Its worth it rather than hybrids imo

 

[ratters]

So really a 150 extra plan to spend. Hmmmmm.

 

[ratters]

Yout lookin at around 350-400 for a loop just for the cards,it will perform better and be quiter than the hybrids. I would budget 400-450 and put the cpu under aswell tho.Its worth it rather than hybrids imo

Yeh I would need to put the CPU under as I have a H110 currently and I expect I would need the room for the raditor ?

 

[MrMD]

Yeh I would need to put the CPU under as I have a H110 currently and I expect I would need the room for the raditor ?

You could keep the h100 if you wanted. Mount it on the top of the case and a 360mm rad at the front for a gpu loop.But it would be a crime to splash out on a loop and keep an aio on the cpu

 

[Ash0787]

approximately 50 pump, 50 res, 50 radiator, 50 cpu block, 50 gpu block, 50 fittings

so usually around 300 with some variation, some parts could go up to 70 or down to around 30, depends if you are carefully choosing or just getting whatever is cheapest, you need to know all the compatibilities of course and whether things will actually fit in your case, some radiators are too thick to be practical for example

AIOs should work out cheaper but in theory are lower quality, they will exhaust less heat, possibly have noise issues like the Fury X has, be harder to maintain, not last as long etc, also if they fail you will get oil everywhere rather than just water, thats the downsides as I see it.

 

[samcat]

approximately 50 pump, 50 res, 50 radiator, 50 cpu block, 50 gpu block, 50 fittings

so usually around 300 with some variation, some parts could go up to 70 or down to around 30, depends if you are carefully choosing or just getting whatever is cheapest, you need to know all the compatibilities of course and whether things will actually fit in your case, some radiators are too thick to be practical for example

AIOs should work out cheaper but in theory are lower quality, they will exhaust less heat, possibly have noise issues like the Fury X has, be harder to maintain, not last as long etc, also if they fail you will get oil everywhere rather than just water, thats the downsides as I see it.

And if you buy second hand you can save a fortune... Pump, rad, res, fittings, kill coil can all be done second hand easily, cpu block fairly easily, GPU full cover block is too recent to the market so probably have to buy new. I would go for new hose unless you manage to find someone selling a length of leftover.
Distilled water can be had all over the place.
Biocide get new.

I think with a minimal effort you could get sub £300, and with some effort less... All depend on what bargains you get hold of!

 

[D3K]

How often do you replace your cooling systems?

If, for example, I were to splash out £500 for a full cooling system, would that do over several generations of hardware (apart from the blocks ofc)?

 

[stuie]

Rads are pretty universal short of some massive change sometime in the future rad tech wont change so they can be a buy once keep for 3/4 generations and its much more important to keep them clean and match with good fans

CPU coolers while to a degree do change with fitments and 1-2c improvements every few years sandy cpu coolers fit haswell so 3 generations and while nothing has yet to be confirmed I believe that skylake has comparable socket sizes so I wouldnt be shocked if 1150 blocks and coolers fit

GPU blocks come in 2 types full cover which have to be matched to cards and core only which are universal, I prefer full cover they look cleaner and cool vrms and mem but they are a bit more expensive and are card specific.

Fittings are cross platform and short of leaky washers can easily be washed and reused.

Tubing and Fluids are normally replaced every year or so but as a whole loop can be re-tubed and filled with fresh fluid for under 50 quid most arnt shy at swapping what would be counted as consumables

Pumps do fail over time, normally they are spec'd to 50K hours which would depend on use however again for 50 quid or so I swap mine out with every major change if im spending 1500 on a new rig an extra 50 or so to ensure problem free usage isnt a major worry

 

[samcat]

How often do you replace your cooling systems?

If, for example, I were to splash out £500 for a full cooling system, would that do over several generations of hardware (apart from the blocks ofc)?

Absolutely.
A good pump is a good pump.. A radiator that can dissipate 300w is a radiator that can dissipate 300w. A res is a res.
As you say, its only the blocks that must change, and it is something you factor into the cost of an upgrade.

 

[Freddie1980]

How often do you replace your cooling systems?

If, for example, I were to splash out £500 for a full cooling system, would that do over several generations of hardware (apart from the blocks ofc)?

Mines three years old and the pump and res was 2nd hand when I built it. Custom water looks great and does a good job cooling everything and will give you the best advantage to get decent overclocks on your hardware however it's not all sunshine.

As you can see it costs a lot of money, it's a pain to setup (I had to do quite a bit of modding on my case to fit all my rads and tube reservoir) but the most annoying thing about it is hardware replacement. If you want to upgrade your graphics card for example it's not straight forward, you have drain the loop, take out the card remove the fittings and tubes. Put the new block on the new card, recut all the tubes to the correct length and fill it up with new fluid (£10 a pop at least) and then you have bleed the system to remove all the trapped air. You could save some pain by having some quick disconnects so you can isolate parts but it still takes time no matter what you do.

IMO if your interested in water cooling your video card your better of using an AIO either do it yourself or get a pre built one you get most of the same advantages for a fraction of the cost and you can sell it as one piece latter on.

 

[dessimpson]

I was looking at this last month for my Titan X as it was stupidly loud on the stock cooler.
I was lucky and managed to source an EVGA AIO.
I am planning to get another Titan X in the next couple of months so I'll no doubt go down the custom loop route then but I do have the room to put another AIO in my case. It's just that I think it would look pretty messy with the two of them and my Corsair h110.