Help with a W/C Setup please!! :)

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Hello Everyone!! :)

Looking to do a Full Custom W/C setup including gpu.

I'm not too fussed about either a Bay/res combo or tube res, though a tube res would be more pleasing to the eye.

My pc spec is

i7 3770K
MSI Mpower Z77 mobo
GeForce GTX780
Corsair 750D

I'd also like the tubing to be 7/16ID too :)

Also i'm going to be moving away from yellow and black to black and white, so if i could have mostly white parts that would be a bonus!

Budget, don't really have one.

Thanks in advance for any help! Appreciated! :)
 
Indeed you can fit a 360 up top (but you lose the top drive bay so bay res is out)and a 240 on front or bottom.

Trying to find a clearance measurement to see if push/pull is possible.

Do you already have the 750d? If so can you measure from top of case to top of mobo in mm please :) (save me some googling).

Also do you want performance or quiet or Inbetween?
 
Only going to be a single fan row then unfortunately plus side is there's not a huge difference.

YOUR BASKET
1 x XSPC RayStorm D5 EX360 WaterCooling Kit £262.99
1 x XSPC Razor GTX 780 & Titan GPU Waterblock **GTX 780 COMPATIBLE** £69.95
2 x XSPC G1/4" to 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD Compression Fitting (Black Chrome) £3.19 (£6.38)
Total : £348.92 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Nice and simple plug and play kit. Only downside is if you have an optical drive. The 360mm rad seems to take out the top 5.25 bay so leaves you only with two for the bay res.

My perfect setup would be this;

YOUR BASKET
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 360 £69.98
1 x XSPC Razor GTX 780 & Titan GPU Waterblock **GTX 780 COMPATIBLE** £69.95
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - 10w DDC Pump & EK-DDC X-TOP CSQ Value Combo £66.98
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 240 £55.98
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £51.98
1 x EK-RES X3 250 Reservoir £51.98
2 x Monsoon 16/11mm (ID 7/16 OD 5/8) Free Center Compression Fitting Six Pack - White £27.95 (£55.90)
5 x Noctua NF-F12 PWM 120mm Focused Flow PWM Cooling Fan £15.98 (£79.90)
2 x XSPC HighFlex Hose 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD, 15.9/11.1mm, 2m, White £5.99 (£11.98)
Total : £524.26 (includes shipping : £8.00).



You could save some money by going with only one rad and getting xspc black compressions. Since you plan on black and white I've gone with the white tubing as if it ever stains you wont see it and xspc tubes have solid colors. The fans I've specced are the best since gentle typhoons sold out (still crying about this :(). They take well to being painted so grab some white spray paint :)

You could also go with clear tubes and get some mayhems dye (had their white in my old build was a really solid color).

So as I see it you'd have black waterblocks to match case and presumably mobo. Then you'd have white fittings with white tubes linked to the black rads with white fans.
 
Thanks for that :) :)

I could always buy an external optical drive because atm i have a fan controller which also takes up another slot.

Out of the two you have listed, i'm assuming they will give just as much performance as each other?
 
The two rad set up will give better cooling. I also much prefer the pump of my second lot. You can control its speed via the fan controller. I would also happily recommend the hardware labs rads and noctuna fans over the xspc versions any day.

I use the majority of those parts myself except the big brother of the pump and 480mm versions of the rads. The xspc cpu block is equal if not better than the ek cpu block (only on the low flow restriction).

On the whole you normally get what you pay for.

The first kit would easily outperform any air cooled/ all in one pcs. The second lot would outperform it yet again(plus obviously the color scheme and tube res).

Another option would be to use 2x 240mm rads.

YOUR BASKET
1 x XSPC Razor GTX 780 & Titan GPU Waterblock **GTX 780 COMPATIBLE** £69.95
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - 10w DDC Pump & EK-DDC X-TOP CSQ Value Combo £66.98
2 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 240 £55.98 (£111.96)
1 x EK-RES X3 250 Reservoir £51.98
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £51.98
2 x Monsoon 16/11mm (ID 7/16 OD 5/8) Free Center Compression Fitting Six Pack - White £27.95 (£55.90)
4 x Noctua NF-F12 PWM 120mm Focused Flow PWM Cooling Fan £15.98 (£63.92)
2 x XSPC HighFlex Hose 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD, 15.9/11.1mm, 2m, White £5.99 (£11.98)
Total : £494.27 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Slightly cheaper and would allow you to keep all of the bays free. Still should be sufficient for the cpu/gpu. iirc the 780 is quite a toasty gpu.
 
Well atm with my 780 not under load, its 31'c :)

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Under load it reaches around 60-65'c.

I think i'm gonna go with the second option you done, with the 360 and 240 rad :)

as my cpu is De-lidded, i might buy a kit that allows a W/C block directly to the cpu chip, rather than through the heatsink, that would add to the cooling also :)
 
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That's the one i was looking at! :D

Now i just need to find a decent EK cpu block that i like the look of! :)

I'll be doing a build log btw as i have some mods i need to do!

Thanks for all the help so far! No doubt ill need some more soon :D
 
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