looking at watercooling loop

passey89

passey89

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I'm looking at setting up a full waterloop.

I was looking at the ek 240 kit that is £144 on oc.

But I was also looking atadding2 universal fitting vgablocks as well as I can't find a decent price for gtx570 blocks.

Are these blocks good enough for cooling 570's?

Will that kit be good enough to go around the cpu and 2 graphics cards?
 
Also, if your 570s are reference design then 580 blocks will fit, but you're still looking at £60+ each.

Also, someone else may be able to tell you, but if you're adding 2 GPU blocks to the loop then you might need a better pump? (I don't know, it might be fine, but might be worth checking)
 
This is what I was worried about.

So possibly more powerful pump and it needs a 360rad.
Will that fit inside a phantom case?

Are the universal gpu blocks good?

I'll put heat sinks on the other partsof thegpu's
 
passey89 said:
This is what I was worried about.

So possibly more powerful pump and it needs a 360rad.
Will that fit inside a phantom case?

Are the universal gpu blocks good?

I'll put heat sinks on the other partsof thegpu's
Click to expand...

Universal GPU blocks are fine (just fitted the XSPC Raystorm to a GTX 670)

I know its quite a bit more money but this is a very good kit:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-144-XS&groupid=962&catid=1532&subcat=

Or if a 360 wont fit you could go for one of these:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-143-XS

and add this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-083-XS&groupid=962&catid=1523&subcat=1524
 
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swapped out the pump / res combo for

EK Multioption Reservoir X2 150 Basic
EK DCP 4.0 Pump (12v)

also 1/2" tubing instead of 3/8"

XSPC HighFlex Hose 1/2" ID, 3/4" OD, 19/12.7mm, 2m, Clear/UV
EK 12mm (1/2") G1/4 High-Flow Barb Fitting

Does this all look like the correct stuff.

Total cost comes to around £250
 
i would look @ the XSPC EX Rads,you wont need the arctic 5 you get very good paste with the CPU block
Dont forget about fans aswell unless you plan on using the case fans for the rads
 
cool wont need the artic paste then.

I've currently got
2 X 200mm
1 X 220mm
1 X 140mm
4 X 120mm

fans in the case so I'm sorted for fans atm got a couple in my old case as well.
 
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