help with watercooling spec

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Hi all,

Looking at now watercooling my pc but this time wanting to use the rigid acryllic tubing rather than the standard flexi tubing.

I have a Corsair Carbide 540 and am looking to keep to a blue sort of theme.

I have a max budget of around £800 but have seen that overclockers do a pre-blocked gtx 770 so £375.00 of my budget will go on that.

So i have £425.00 left for the rest of it. I will be removing my dvd drives to make some extra room in the back.

From what I've seen the 240 radiators fit best in this case with most people using 2 or 3 of them so just wondering which are best to use? do some have better cooling than others?

Will more than likely be using the Corsair SP120 high pressure fans as seems they have great airflow and love the blue on them.

Will be having blue fluid but not quite decided on which yet, again, is any particular fluid better than others?

Will also be wanting to add my cpu (i5 4670K) into the loop and eventually have the option to add a second graphics card.


I really would welcome any suggestions especially on radiators and pumps.
 
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18555544

Have a look at that. Perfect example of what an 540 can do :D beautiful!

As for rads I suggest hardware labs sr1s brilliant cooling ability and they happily take fans from 600-2100rpm so best of quiet vs performance. I think your best bet would be a 240mm and a 360mm.

Pump wise the DDC 18w woth x top will have more than enough power along with being tiny to fit in the case. Or have a look at the ek DCP 4.0/ek combo.

Fluid wise I and pretty much everyone love mayhems. Get a concentrate so you can mix up your own color :).
 
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