Noob to watercooling. Want to put in a Akasa Eclipse case

no_1_dave · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:01

If I buy this (OCUK sell it but I can get it cheap):

http://www.asetek.com/main/page.asp?sideid=432

1) How would I mount the rad in an Akasa Eclipse?
2) Does the air blow through the rad or suck through the rad?
3) If I buy a chipset cooler would the 120mm rad be enough for the cpu & chipset?
4) If I but a 7900 GT water block would the 120mm rad be enough for the cpu & 7900?
5) Could I use the 7900 block, chipset block & cpu block or would that really be pushing it?

Oh & is that pump silent (not bothered about the fan being silent as I have some silent one's around here somewhere)?

PCRHitman · 25 Apr 2006 at 22:07

i'm fairly new to the old water cooling fiasco myslef, recently built myself a custom kit.. i was originally going to get the water chill kit, but i got talked into doing a little more research and i discovered that my better option was to buy a custom selected kit. more about that later...

in answer to your questions, to the best of my knoledge:
1) The single fan rad would very nicely sit outside the case at the back of the case over the 120mm outlet fan. 2) this then means that you can have a fan inside your case blowing onto the rad, and a fan on the outside on your rad sucking the air through for more efficient cooling (i was recommended to have my fans sucking the air through my rad, i think its more efficient, i personally have a tripple tadiator mounted on stand on the top of my case with 3 12mm fans sucking hte air through)

3&4) as far as i know a 120mm rad will cool all three fine, more efficiently than air would, but obviously the bigger your rad gets the more efficient your cooling will be, it all depends on what sort of overclocks you want to go for.

I don't know if that pump is silent, but the Swiftech MCP655 12 VDC Pump has a speed control so you can reduce noise. it also performs better than the waterchill pump.

As far as i know the swifttech waterblocks, ie the Swiftech Apogee Extreme Performance Universal Waterblock, and Swiftech MCW55 VGA Waterblock perfrom better than waterchills (found here), but don't hold me to that.

My own kit comprises of the swiftech apogee CPU block, the swiftech mcw55 vga water block, the swiftech mcw30 chipset waterblock, the Swiftech MCP655 pump, a Danger Den Reservoir High-Density Polyethylene 5.24" and the ThermoChill PA120.3 rad.

This kit i'm very happy with cooling everything.. when it was all attached i wasn't having problems getting the chipset waterblock to work on my new motherboard, it was keeping my old P4 3.0GHz prescott clocked at 3.4GHz with my old 6800GT clocked at 420/1100 and the intel 975 chipset all at a nice temperature of 45ish / 39-40ish / and 30 respectivly.. this was a while ago so i can't remember exactly the idle and load temps. although i do know that with my air cooling my prescott would hit 65-70 degrees at stock, so i saw a massive! drop in temperature

hope that is of some use, apologies i started to ramble :cool:

Mercutio · 26 Apr 2006 at 01:17

The guide is rather nice, well executed etc but the links to other stores will cause u problems, edit quickly.
Mods - please go easy on the guy, this a nice precise "this works"

no_1_dave · 26 Apr 2006 at 01:51

Nice one, cheers for that. It'll come in handy

mattup · 26 Apr 2006 at 08:24

I would remove those links if I were you.

Read the FAQs if you are unsure.

Matt

PCRHitman · 26 Apr 2006 at 16:22

cool thanks for that, links removed, will try and find manufactorers links at some point.. apologies OcUK

PCRHitman · 26 Apr 2006 at 16:26

P.S.
Don't do what i did and forget to put PTFE tape round the screw threads of your barbs. i did it on every set butr forget about my cpu block, damed fool. i ended up killing my PC... gave me a great excuse for an upgrade though!