New to water cooling.

Mikesan

Mikesan

Mikesan

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Hi, i'm an amateur when it comes to water cooling, so much so that i installed my first water cooling loop only 3 days ago using the Thermaltake Bigwater 770 (just to make the process simpler and to familiarise myself with it)

Avg. temps have been as follows ;

Idle

Core 0 : 21C
Core 1 : 21C
Core 2 : 17C
Core 3 : 18C

Full Load
Core 0: 45C
Core 1: 45C
Core 2: 40C
Core 3: 41C


This has been a surprisingly big difference from my thermalright Ultra 120, particularly the idle temps.


My question is : I'm planning on upgrading my graphics card to a 5870 or possibly 5970 within the next month or so, will the radiator and pump be able to take the heat if i installed a waterblock to the new GPU? And how much temperature difference could i expect in the GPU and what would the affect be on the CPU ?


I do apologize if any similar question has been asked but I could not find one.

Thanks ,
Mikesan.

Intel Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz
Thermaltake BigWater 770
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R
4GB PC2-8500 Corsair
BFG nVidia 9800 GTX +
Corsair 650W LX PSU
2x 320 GB Seagate Barracudas
Antec 1200
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
 
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Mikesan said:
My question is : I'm planning on upgrading my graphics card to a 5870 or possibly 5970 within the next month or so, will the radiator and pump be able to take the heat if i installed a waterblock to the new GPU? And how much temperature difference could i expect in the GPU and what would the affect be on the CPU ?
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Sadly the kit you have won't be powerfull enough to cool either of those cards along with a Cpu. But as you said you bought it to try out watercooling for the first time, i did that myself the other year, and have now moved on to a custom loop.

The pump dos'nt look to bad, what hurts that kit the most for your plan, is the radiator, do cool a cpu and a GFX you reall need a 360 rad with non restrictive blocks, and a good pressure pump.

I would say when u get either of those cards, keep that on air for now, and research a custom loop and ofcourse ask here aswell.

With all the correct stuff, the Gpu temps would drop by quite abit, but in turn that would slightly increas Cpu temps, as more heat is being dumped into the loop.

I would say get your self more familiar with the world of water cooling, you have made the first step so welcome to the club, it does take a lot of research and never be affraid to ask here either, there are many experienced watercoolers here, and most of them are nice lol.
 
Never mind it being at stock for the moment. Why the hell did you buy a TT Bigwater? They are very poor quality. What are you using to read the temps? They seem far too low, especially the idle temps considering the current weather. Even up here it's been 22 degrees today and it's really stuffy in the house.
 
Hey guys thanks for the replies. Yes it is incredibly hot here too, was at the Big Weekend today since i live in bangor and holy crap i almost had a heat stroke.

Yeah i was using Speedfan, i used to use Core Temp which ive started using again now and readings are:


Core 0: 36
Core 1: 36
Core 2: 32
Core 3: 33

Idle.

Also i did have an overclock on air at 3.2Ghz prior to installing the watercooling.
 
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