Soldato
hey folks, loads of people here are quite educated in the best watercooling parts, wondering if koolance blocks are anygood? planning on putting together watercooling system and i been wondering if there anygood for a while
Koolance waterblocks
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Soldato
i think as with any manufacturer their products vary greatly from model to model.
google is your friend here
use it to search for reviews.
i found this :
http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/wbsum.asp
tell us what your wanting to cool and give us a budget and we will bea ble to point you in the right direction no doubt !
so sorry to shoot your question down but it really does depend on the individual block. then the pump, rad, basically everything needs to eb considered.
hello from sunderland btw... just noticed your in jarrow
google is your friend here
use it to search for reviews.i found this :
http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/wbsum.asp
tell us what your wanting to cool and give us a budget and we will bea ble to point you in the right direction no doubt !
so sorry to shoot your question down but it really does depend on the individual block. then the pump, rad, basically everything needs to eb considered.
hello from sunderland btw... just noticed your in jarrow
Soldato
Koolance = not great. A lot better solutions out there.
hello there down and to the right a bit in sunderland. i don't really have any set budget at the moment, im just doing preliminary research, im looking to cool CPU, dual 7600GT, SLI northbridge, there the main things im cooling, motherboard will be DFI lanparty SLI-DR (which came this morning), thinking about going with an alphacool 1500l/h centrifugal pump, and perhaps alphacool waterblocks, but this will be first watercooling i have ever done, so any advice would be greatly appreciated
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Soldato
if you can drop me an email fenderrick AT hotmail.com then i will be able to send some links to some articles etc... only they contain links to other shops etc so i cannot post on the forum 
sorry
but in general you want to have a ballanced system
for example a 1500lph pump simply has too much flow... always go for head presure over flow. as the kind of pumps that produce 1500lph ( litres per hour) are not designed for high resistance applications such as watercooling.
in a nutshell ( and im truly not saying this becasue ive got one ! ) the best pump to go for is a MCP600 AKA Aqua extreme 50z. you will see this in the links i send you
if you have ever heard of cathar, this is the pump that he reccomends as the jack of all trades and in most applications is the best one to use... obviouslty every rig differs but this pump has always been a clear winner.
its high pressure and low heat dump ( only 8watts)
heat dump form pumps MATTERS if the components you are cooling have LOW heat watt ratings, say if a CPU was putting out 50wats of heat, and your pump is putting out 25 ( totaly made up scenario btw) then automatically your pump is accounting for 50% of the heat in your WC rig.
but since you will be cooling a lot of parts, the percentage of heat that the pump will dump suddenly becomes smaller... say your now trying to cool an over all 200 watts, and your pump is adding another 25 to that... now the pump only contributes towards just over 12% of heat in therig there for you can afford to use a higehr pressure pump with a little more heat dump.
now that alphacool pump you mentioned puts 17w of heat into the water, and has a high flow rate.. id steer away from that pump if i were you.
but have a read through the links i will send you and see how much you learn from them
Rick
sorry but in general you want to have a ballanced system
for example a 1500lph pump simply has too much flow... always go for head presure over flow. as the kind of pumps that produce 1500lph ( litres per hour) are not designed for high resistance applications such as watercooling.
in a nutshell ( and im truly not saying this becasue ive got one ! ) the best pump to go for is a MCP600 AKA Aqua extreme 50z. you will see this in the links i send you
if you have ever heard of cathar, this is the pump that he reccomends as the jack of all trades and in most applications is the best one to use... obviouslty every rig differs but this pump has always been a clear winner.
its high pressure and low heat dump ( only 8watts)
heat dump form pumps MATTERS if the components you are cooling have LOW heat watt ratings, say if a CPU was putting out 50wats of heat, and your pump is putting out 25 ( totaly made up scenario btw) then automatically your pump is accounting for 50% of the heat in your WC rig.
but since you will be cooling a lot of parts, the percentage of heat that the pump will dump suddenly becomes smaller... say your now trying to cool an over all 200 watts, and your pump is adding another 25 to that... now the pump only contributes towards just over 12% of heat in therig there for you can afford to use a higehr pressure pump with a little more heat dump.
now that alphacool pump you mentioned puts 17w of heat into the water, and has a high flow rate.. id steer away from that pump if i were you.
but have a read through the links i will send you and see how much you learn from them
Rick
the alphacool centrifugal pump has 1500 Litre/Hour and some 6 Metre delivery height (im assuming thats how much pipe it can send it through?) no idea if thats anygood
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Another what pump thread - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568581