New to watercooling, recommendations please

Lordgrayone

Lordgrayone

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Hi,

Am planning on watercooling my PC(in my sig) but as ive never done it before i was thinking of using one of the kits EK or OCUK.

if funds permit and the fact that i cannot find a cooler block for my 480 GTX i may upgrade to the EVGA 580 GTX superclocked, with my case i was thinking i would have to mod the top of the case and put the rad on the outside.

Can i just get the 360 kit or should i do a separate loop for each?

please help.
 
Sig has 6 lines but main components are Phenom 1090t OC @ 4ghz, 480GTX stock clocks, still looking for somewhere that sells a waterblock for it.
Also just noticed that the V12 kit uses OcUK 1/2" Barbed Fitting G1/4. i take it the G1/4 stands for the screw in thread and i would need to buy 2 more for the GFX card?
 
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If you have the funds, then go for the OCUK kit - very customisable and top notch performance.

You are correct G1/4 is the thread size you would need 2 more fittings for the GPU block.
 
EK full cover blocks perform very well so I'd recommend one of those buddy. I didn't see your question about two loops - and in short the answer is no, this is because having two loops increases the cost substantially (another pump, res, etc) and the performance gain will be 0 to 3 degrees from a single loop. Have you considered the use of an external mounting bracket? It allows you to mount a rad externally without modding if you are interested check out the Koolance HX0001 bracket, or the Pulse Modding rad mount bracket.
 
Excellent thats what I wanted to hear, I think setting up 1 is going to be enough of a challenge.
Have been doing lots of reading and checking out the size of the rad in the v12 kit and was thinking of mounting it externally on the top of the case.
I have found and ordered a EK-FC480 GTX - Acetal block so I've just got to order the v12 kit and any other bits I will need, will check out those mounts you mentioned
Thanks again
 
Liking the idea of the Koolance HX0001 bracket but i would have to mount in on the top due to where the pipes go into the case, wont have to mod anything and will hopefully still be able to use the top fan to keep an airflow into the case and one on the rear for extraction.
 
You could mount it on the back, just use 90 degrees fittings on the radiator, and then when it reaches the pre-drilled holes, you can another set of 90 degrees fittings to eliminate tube bend/kink.
 
Now thats something I wouldn't have thought of, does it matter if the holes for the rad are at the top or bottom?
Will get the kit ordered and see what other bits I need as I might need angled fittings for the gfx block too.
 
Ended up with the ek 360 kit in the end as I couldn't wait for the rads to come in stock for the v12 kit.
Got it all set up and very pleased with the temps and lack of noise.
Thanks for your help guys and to ocuk :-D
 
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Will get some sorted ASAP.
Am still testing at the moment because i keep getting a bubble coming out of the rad every now and then but im pretty sure i cleared them, seems as though its sucking a little bit of air from the res because of the turbulance and pops out the rad when its built up a little.
 
pics as promised, none of the actual building as i wanted to get it finished and it took me ages, also not the greatest quality as i used my phone cam.
PC2.jpg

PC3.jpg

PC1.jpg

and yes Cleeeco that is a copper block on the GPU and you dont like it but its mine so tough :D
Seem to now be getting issues with the board showing a CPU error when i first boot up and wont post :-(
 
Copper:eek:

*swiftly adds to ignore list*

Not even copper plexi... How could you!!

Just needs a little bit of cable management and it'll look the part (apart from the copper acetal ofcourse:p)
 
What type of error are you getting on the cpu? And I second the cable management.
 
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