My first pc, watercooled but still building

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I bought my first pc two months ago and have been slowly building it up. I watercooled the cpu yesterday.

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I am currently running a Msi 7850 and shall be upgrading to a 7970 in the coming months and connecting it to the water cooled loop :)

Radiator was too big to fit in the case so popped it on top until I get a new/bigger case.

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Looks good so far, though you are aware that the Aurora fluid you are using isn't aimed at long term use?

Also what cases are you looking at, its essential to pick a decent WC ready case before buying WC parts, you don't want to buy parts only to find they won't fit in a case ;)

Edit: You'll also want to resize your image, 1000px limit on any axis :)
 
pgi947 said:
Looks good so far, though you are aware that the Aurora fluid you are using isn't aimed at long term use?

Also what cases are you looking at, its essential to pick a decent WC ready case before buying WC parts, you don't want to buy parts only to find they won't fit in a case ;)

Edit: You'll also want to resize your image, 1000px limit on any axis :)
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I was looking at upgrading my NZXT phantom midi to the full size tower.
 
afaik None of the Phantoms* are great to watercool in, well unless your open to modding that is, if you are looking at NZXT take a look at the Switch 810.

*New Phantom is due for release very soon, no idea what its like for WC.
 
I believe I'm going to keep the current case, do some modding to drop the rad down.

Purchasing a 7970 with waterblock next month and will add that in to the loop.
 
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Remove the bottom HDD cage, you should manage a 240 in the bottom with some basic modding by the look of it :)
 
the newest phantom seems ok for water but iirc it still cant support the rads a switch can

plus... its rice for geeks xD

btw with aurora the pearls will eventually drop out of suspension and colect in areas of lower flow etc. when you switch it out you will need to disassemble your cpu block and take a tootbrush to it
 
New phantom looks like it may take a similar amount of radiator space as the switch 810. But imo NZXT screwed up by AGAIN having non-standard 200mm fan mountings, if they had gone standard you could have fit a 2x200 up the top. A case full of fail from a watercooling point of view. Switch looks better, has possibly better WC options and is a fair chunk cheaper.
 
dave_beast said:
An idea, when we do your 7950 Jewish, we'll use some 90º fittings on that res>pump pipe, it'll look a lot neater.
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I meant 7970 :)

Already ordered up the 90 degree fittings, should be here sometime this week.

Also installed the new AMD driver like you said DB.

Is there any way to water cool my 7850 or would I have to buy a reference card?
 
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Also looking to move the power supply to a different location, drop the 240mm x 47mm rad to the bottom and put a slim 120mm or 240mm rad in the top.
 
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