Custom loop power consumption?

Chris0

Chris0

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Hello.

I was wondering if anyone had any idea how much power draw a custom loop would use.

I'm guessing it's basically (Pump's power + whatever fans you use to cool the radiators)

Just wondering how it would compare to my 10 case fans and little sealed h50 unit's pump.

Would love to start planning putting together my own loop but if it means upgrading my PSU aswell it's not going to happen anytime soon.
 
OP - What PSU do you have already? To be honest ive never heard of anyone having to upgrade their psu just to fit a water pump, most pc builders who want to move into watercooling already have a decent psu installed.

The power draw of a d5 pump at full speed will be marginal and nothing to worry about if you have a solid psu.
 
Hehe :)

I don't really. I have a cheepy "Proline" 600W PSU. I doubt it can really do 600W.

But I'm starting to think if I have 2 X 240mm rads, that makes 4 fans, nothing compared to what I've got in there now, fan wise.

And I do technically have a pump in already that I'll be chucking out. It's from Corsair's H50 unit, so it's looking like I'll be sitting on par with my current cooling's power draw.

I'll be ditching a total of 6 fans so hey, maybe I'll even save some power.

Thanks dude, just wanted to be sure Pumps weren't super power hungry. I can go on with my planning :)
 
If you can afford a custom loop water system, I would budget aside for a quality power supply tbh, something by Corsair, XFX or Seasonic would stand you in very good stead for at least 4-5 years.

Also you should resize your signature to the 4 lines as stated in the forum rules :)
 
Jokester said:
You're looking at about 20W for a decent pump and 1W per fan.
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Thanks for those values, just what I was looking for.

SeraphX said:
If you can afford a custom loop water system, I would budget aside for a quality power supply tbh
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The problem with upgrading my PSU is that if I'm gonna do it I'm going to go all out. In the next year or so I play to add My WC loop, another graphics card for SLI, gonna start overclocking all my stuff properly, also going to double my number of RAM Dimms and add a couple SDDs

The cooling loop is the fun bit :P was hoping I could do that first before spending 200 pounds on a black box that says 1000W on it. Just the child in me talking I guess.
SeraphX said:
Also you should resize your signature to the 4 lines as stated in the forum rules
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Done.

Thanks for all the help everyone:). I'm heading out for the day now, so will reply to anything else this evening.
 
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LOL you won't need a 1000W psu, for an i7 9** based system with 460 SLI, a quality 650W or a 700W would suffice,
 
Indeed, 1000W would be massively overkill. Buy a *quality* PSU of whatever wattage you need, don't buy a **** one with a higher wattage which will kill all your components.

I'd really make that a number one priority, too - no point playing with watercooling and overclocking if your entire system could die the moment you try to start turning up voltages.

ETA: And you're really not going to need more than £100 or so for the PSU. A decent custom loop is more than twice that.
 
Hmm, I guess you guys are right, I still like the idea of going all out on a PSU as they're not monumental expensive like other componants can be and I'd like to know my PSU can handel whatever I can possibly throw at it.

I'm very keen to make a power supply thread as it seems to be what I need to upgrade first and I was planning to buy one for my Girlfriends PC in the next month or so anyway. can give her my old one and get myself something nice, just don't tell her :P
but yeah, I was looking now and I can't find a forum section for PSUs am I blind or should I use general hardware?
 
I had an 2500k and 460SLI running on a 750W, and that's plenty to spear!

e:Wow, can't even spell spare, wow. BED TIME ME THINKS!
 
Hyburnate said:
I had an 2500k and 460SLI running on a 750W, and that's plenty to spear!

e:Wow, can't even spell spare, wow. BED TIME ME THINKS!
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Hehe, my spelling can be far worse.

Interesting, maybe I really don't need to spend quite so much.

Seriously anyone know where I should make a PSU thread?
 
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