Newb to Watercooling Need Help

wolfleader01

wolfleader01

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Hi guys, ive recently aquired my second GTX590. So im now running Quad SLI, although my case has a side door fan as well as top, front and back. Im still getting pretty hot tempretures on demanding games, such as battlefield 3 and other graphic intensive applications.

So ive decided i want to wc both my cards and proccesor.

I currently have a thermaltech GT10 case
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-116-TT&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=

Ive never touched wc'ing before and am pretty nervouse at what i should buy and what sort of kit i should be building into my machine, any help would be greatly apriciated.

In my cooling loop i would like to have both my graphics cards and my processor. hoping to spend mabye 2-300 pounds maximum on this, although will strech further if needed to assure a qaulity build
Thanks in advance
Jack
 
£2-300 isn't going to be enough. The waterblocks alone for your 590's are £110 each.

I'm not sure your case will be able to hold enough radiators to make it worth it. You can fit a double on the top, and a single on the back, but that's probably not going to give the best performance when you're cooling 5 components. Is there anywhere else you could fit a radiator in your case? Would you be against the idea of mounting a radiator externally?
 
as i say im totaly up for ideas, any setups that you can reccomend i will save for and purchase if they work and are not too complex to install, basicaly something that would be manageble for a first time installer :)
im actualy only cooling 3 components i think?
the gtx590 is a dual graphics card, so theres two of those aka the qaud sli, and then the processor
Thanks
jACK
 
You could just cool the graphics cards? Then a double and a single as jimbob said would be enough to cool them, maybe not that well but better than cooling all the components.

If you did that you could then fit the budget better.

Don't know anything about fittings and stuff but this gives you an estimate of what you can expect price range (this is everything except tubing and fittings)


YOUR BASKET
2 x EK FC590 GTX Full Cover Waterblock - Nickel Acetal *EN Nickel** £111.98 (£223.96)
1 x EK DCP 4.0 Pump (12v) £39.98
1 x XSPC EX240 120mm Radiator - Black £39.98
1 x EK CoolStream Radiator XT 120 (120.1) £26.99
1 x XSPC Single 5.25” Bay Reservoir - Multi Fascia £24.98
Total : £367.91 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Edit: he said 5 components because he was saying each graphics core + processor which makes 5 :)
 
don't know much about the case tbh but if u cant fit a 360 rad in then one 240 and one 120 raid should be fine to cool your cpu and gfx cards

Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 120
Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 240
EK Supreme HF CPU Waterblock - Nickel Acetal
EK FC590 GTX Full Cover Waterblock - Nickel Acetal *EN Nickel x 2
XSPCX2O 750 Dual 5.25” Bay Reservoir Pump

don't know much about the case hence maybe res/pump option might be better option, will have to get opinions from others on how well that pump/res works , ofc separate pump/res is better option if u can fit in.

then u just need tubing , fans and fittings etc
 
thanks for the replys guys, i would prefer to cool both my gpu's and processor as it would be nice to go totaly wc'd, however if just wanted to cool the cards would 1 240MM radiator be egnough? i need to have effiecent wc'ing on the cards at least as i have a pretty decent Aftermarket CPU cooler anyway
Thanks
Jack
 
yer the external option prolly would work and a 360 rad would be enuff to cool it all , although u could have a 360 externally and either a 120 or 240 internally , just buy the separate brackets and the rad bolts onto the rear fan placement
 
As far as I understand, you should have at least one fan size of radiator per component, as far as 590's go they are effectively 4 graphics cards, but running slowly so i would say that 3 fan sizes would be best, if not 4, which makes a double and a single. External mounting is similar to internal mounting, just tubes need to go outside the case to a radiator which is either attached to the back or side of the computer or somewhere else.
 
ok so lets say i want to cool the graphics cards only, my case says i can only fit a 240mm Rad at the top of the case. That meens im gonna need to fit a single rad at the back of the case somewhere too, seeing pictures of this would proberly make it easyer for me to understand lol, is the back rad mounted internaly or on the outside of the case, cause im thinking the cpu cooler might get in the way?
sorry for the newby questions
Jack
 
wc setup
1xHardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 240
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-033-BX&groupid=962&catid=1523&subcat=1525
1x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 120
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-036-BX&groupid=962&catid=1523&subcat=1524
2xEK FC590 GTX Full Cover Waterblock - Nickel Acetal *EN Nickel**
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-101-EK
XSPCX2O 750 Dual 5.25” Bay Reservoir Pump
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-011-XS&tool=3

Ok taking into account im gonna need 3 fans for the card, will this work?
obviously im gonna need some fans, tubing, clips and dye aswell to go with this
 
Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM - 3 Pin x3
XSPC 7/16" ID [16/11mm] High Flex Hose - Clear price/meter 2 meters should be more than enuff

OcUK 1/2" G1/4 - FatBoy Style - Shiny Silver - Barb Fitting 2 per fitting
PrimoChill Black Steel Spring Clips - 1/2" - 2 per fitting( 7/16 tubing will give tight fitting onto the barb so the clips arnt totally needed but if u prefer to use em)

just used distilled water and add a kill coil or biocide



the pump/res rooster will prolly be better than 1 i recommended but depends on how much space is in the case
 
Heres a couple of pics of my setup, im thinking i will have the 120mm Rad attached Externaly, and the 240 obviously at the top,
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and the res/pump can go in the free bays at the front
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/i2rbf.jpg
 
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You are better off going down the external radiator route and just hiding the rad behind your desk or something. 240mm of rad for 4 gpus just isn't enough. I had 360 + 240 for 2x 580s and a cpu and the temps where okay, not great. That was all internal though.

I definitely wouldn't try and internalise your entire water-cooling loop though in your case with 2x 590s as the heat radiating from the cards alone will be very hard to remove from the case.
 
a 360 is prolly best option for externally and with a 240 internally I doubt u'd have any problems keeping both gpu and the cpu cool

1 x EK Supreme HF CPU Waterblock - Nickel Acetal £55.99
2 x EK FC590 GTX Full Cover Waterblock - Nickel Acetal *EN Nickel** £111.98 (£223.96)
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 360 £69.98
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 240 £55.98
1 x EK Reservoir Combo DCP 4.0 £24.98 or 1 x Phobya 5,25" Single Bay Reservoir Black £22.79
1 x EK DCP 4.0 Pump (12v) £39.98
5 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM - 3 Pin £13.99


+ tubing , fittings etc

something like that should work fine for both gpu and cpu
 
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ok sweet so i should go for a phobya 1080external with the 240 rad internal?
and that should cool the whole system including cpu
but i still think it might be better to go for a little less to start with till im confident with setting everything up, can i run my two graphic cards off the 120 and 240mm rad? if so ill go for that first, then add more to the water cooled system
 
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