HAF X Water cooling.

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What is the largest Radiator I can fit in this case?
And how many fans can I fit around the radiator?

I am new to watercooling, so any help will be greatly recieved. Any suggestions for parts would be helpful. My aim is to have a Quite and cool pc so i will most likely have a low airflow radiator.

I was hoping to watercool my cpu, gpu and use the built in water block on the motherboard to cool the NB.

I would hope to spend £300 max. £200 if possible

My specs:

Antec Truepower Quattro 1200W
PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ 1GB GDDR5
Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7
AMD Phenom II X6 Black Edition 1090T 3.2GHz
Coolermaster HAF X
BL2KIT25664BN1608 4GB kit (2GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM
 
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Phobya Xtreme 200mm Radiator. Or a not so crazy standard 360 rad.


But With all watercooling questions likes these though, my answer would be, if your not confident enough to answer those questions yourself or pick parts you feel would be best then you need to do some more reading up on watercooling.

As having others pick parts might get you good parts but not the knowledge of how to the use them effectively/install them/maintain them etc. Might seem abit harsh but with watercooling you need to feel confident enough to do it yourself.
 
ATCS840 is a much better case for watercooling imo, no sign of any cheap plastic either.

Had a HAF X and it was a nightmare trying to fit a radiator with fans on.

edit: ah sorry i thought you were looking for a case too but I now see you already have an HAF X? HAFX supports 360mm radiators but if you get a thick one like a thermochill pa/ta then you'll need to use roof fans with that case, if you buy a slim radiator you should be able to mount 3x120mm fans underneath it blowing upwards.
 
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ATCS840 is a much better case for watercooling imo, no sign of any cheap plastic either.

Had a HAF X and it was a nightmare trying to fit a radiator with fans on.

edit: ah sorry i thought you were looking for a case too but I now see you already have an HAF X? HAFX supports 360mm radiators but if you get a thick one like a thermochill pa/ta then you'll need to use roof fans with that case, if you buy a slim radiator you should be able to mount 3x120mm fans underneath it blowing upwards.


im using the haf x case with a thermochill pa120.3 rad in the top.
using top fans to suck and 3x 120mm fans under radiator blowing.
so it easy can be done. and got a 120mm pa120.1 radiator on the top back.
and a fesser 120.1 radiator on bottom next to psu.
 
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