High end water cooling

Depth · 18 Nov 2006 at 16:22

I have just ordered the last parts of my system I have been saving up for, and I thought the next thing I would start planning on would be a water cooling set up to go with it.

I will be cooling a Core 2 Duo e6600, two 8800gtx in SLI, and it will be housed in an Akasa Eclipse case. Im going to set my budget at around 300 pounds, but am willing to go slightly over.

Basically, can anyone reccomend some high end, custom water cooling that they think would work well with my sytem. Emphasis is on cooling as I will be overclocking as much as possible.

2bullish · 18 Nov 2006 at 16:28

Swiftech Storm for your cpu block

Thermochill pa120.3 for your rad

DDC ultra with an alphacool top for your pump

t-line or res, your choice, no effect on performance

1/2 or 7/16 for your tubing

Cannot give you advice on the gpu blocks as there are no real comparisons on the market with them being so new.

Depth · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:57

2bullish said:
Swiftech Storm for your cpu block

Thermochill pa120.3 for your rad

DDC ultra with an alphacool top for your pump

t-line or res, your choice, no effect on performance

1/2 or 7/16 for your tubing

Cannot give you advice on the gpu blocks as there are no real comparisons on the market with them being so new.

Sounds good.

Would having the watercooling in an external Radbox give significantly better performance over having it internally in the case?

Jokester · 18 Nov 2006 at 18:02

If your'e case has good air flow, no you won't see a significant improvement. If it doesn't you might see some improvement but the main benefit of an external box is that you can have a 120.3 radiator without much troubles though I think you might be able to fit in an Eclipse without any trouble but someone would need to confirm that.

Jokester

2bullish · 18 Nov 2006 at 18:33

Jokester said:
If your'e case has good air flow, no you won't see a significant improvement. If it doesn't you might see some improvement but the main benefit of an external box is that you can have a 120.3 radiator without much troubles though I think you might be able to fit in an Eclipse without any trouble but someone would need to confirm that.

Jokester

The pa120.3 will not fit inside an eclipse, however, it can be mounted on the top without any problems at all.

cypriobrit · 18 Nov 2006 at 21:25

Have any other GPU blocks come out for the 8800 or only the BFG card that comes with the DD one?

footman · 18 Nov 2006 at 22:07

Ive mounted my MCR220 Radiator on the top of my Eclipse....looks slightly weird but it works well enough.

marscay · 19 Nov 2006 at 17:34

i've done the same with my BIX3, external aint as pretty but it achieves better results and if the rad happens to leak outside theres much less drama.

my cases don't goto LAN's it's never a problem.