New Watercooling SETUP
- Thread starter barrymacp
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When you say you don't want the thick stuff, I assume you want 3/8th or 1/4 inch inner diameter tubing?
Basically all the major components you want have standard G1/4 fittings so you just buy all the oft recommended parts and screw in the fittings you want - 1/2", 3/8" or 1/4".
I doubt you'll see a great system with 1/4" tubing. I run 3/8ths as I have lot of close-together components and 1/2" doesn't bend tight enough. I use XSPC Springz to keep it all smoothly curved, with no kinks.
I think you could do worse than start off with an XSPC kit, which is 3/8ths throughout and, although it's not fantastic, it's better than an air cooler and it's quite cheap for water cooling at about £70 for the block, radiator, pump/reservoir and tubing.
I put one into a friends system because they wanted it to glow in the dark (Blue Feser 1 UV Fluid) and it works really well, they have an E4300 overclocked to 2.7GHz and it runs at 28C idle and 49C maxed out with TAT.
Basically all the major components you want have standard G1/4 fittings so you just buy all the oft recommended parts and screw in the fittings you want - 1/2", 3/8" or 1/4".
I doubt you'll see a great system with 1/4" tubing. I run 3/8ths as I have lot of close-together components and 1/2" doesn't bend tight enough. I use XSPC Springz to keep it all smoothly curved, with no kinks.
I think you could do worse than start off with an XSPC kit, which is 3/8ths throughout and, although it's not fantastic, it's better than an air cooler and it's quite cheap for water cooling at about £70 for the block, radiator, pump/reservoir and tubing.
I put one into a friends system because they wanted it to glow in the dark (Blue Feser 1 UV Fluid) and it works really well, they have an E4300 overclocked to 2.7GHz and it runs at 28C idle and 49C maxed out with TAT.
i'm looking to swap out the block and pump in my thermaltake bigwater 745 system as well...
What are the best blocks out right now? Apogee GT? D-tek Fuzion? I'll be keeping my 3/8'' tubing and the 2 different thermaltake rads.
What are the best blocks out right now? Apogee GT? D-tek Fuzion? I'll be keeping my 3/8'' tubing and the 2 different thermaltake rads.
It could be argued many ways...
The DTek is looking good, the Alphacool NeXXXos XP, etc. are all very good blocks. To be honest, unless you REALLY know what you're doing, you won't notice any difference between any of the modern blocks - they're all pretty good.
Considering pretty much all of them use Cathar's original design...
The DTek is looking good, the Alphacool NeXXXos XP, etc. are all very good blocks. To be honest, unless you REALLY know what you're doing, you won't notice any difference between any of the modern blocks - they're all pretty good.
Considering pretty much all of them use Cathar's original design...
