Radiator / fan advice

Solemn · 29 Jun 2011 at 10:07

Hi there,

Currently I have all my components running under water (gfx/cpu/mobo). I am running two loops but it's running very hot atm.

I am using cheap fans and radiators atm an i think i have rubbish air flow in my case. I want to move everything to the Lanboy air case..

Questions I have...

Can I fit a 360 rad in the top of a lanboy air?
Can you suggest a very good 240mm radiator?
Currently i have the cheap EK CoolStream Radiator XT 240 rad and the stealth black Ice 360. If I got two better(suggestions?) 240 rads to replace these too, would this improvecooling?
Can you guys list some very good 120mm fans? I want to cut down how many fans I have atm.... and just use very good ones instead.

thanks for any advice.

koooowweeee · 29 Jun 2011 at 10:35

Take the mobo out of the loop and make it one loop. That will sort your temps out. You should not have bad temps with those rads.

OLDPHART · 29 Jun 2011 at 11:44

As koooowweeee says your temps should not be that bad and go for the single loop. I just had a Black Ice Stealth 360 pus/pull single loop, CPU > 4.2 + GPU > 470 OC'd and the temps were not bad at all.

Apem · 29 Jun 2011 at 12:40

Also dont go Lanboy that case is rubbish

Shayper · 29 Jun 2011 at 14:28

If you are looking for a good water-cooling case that Antec is not the way to go. I would go for either the Fractal Arc (very nice offset rad mounting at the top) or the xigmatek Elysium (pure awesomeness). If you need any more info on radiators have a look on the thread in my sig

Apem · 29 Jun 2011 at 15:28

Shayper that link isnt working m8

Shayper · 29 Jun 2011 at 20:34

Odd... I'll have a look see what's up. It's my thread in the water-cooling forum anyway

Shayper · 29 Jun 2011 at 20:36

Should work now

Krony · 29 Jun 2011 at 22:59

Currently using a pair of XSPC 240 RX rads in a single loop cooling an i7 950 @ 4.2GHz and a GTX 580 and temps are nice, well actually currently the pc is in bits in progress of replacing the 1.5Gb 580 for a pair of 3Gb ones and i will be running the same single loop and hoping for decent temps still, the XSPC RX rads are pretty thick tho and i was running push/pull on em and that might not fit for ur application.

BubbySoup · 30 Jun 2011 at 11:32

I am cooling an i5 @ 4.2 and 2 6970's (stock) on a phobya g-changer 360 rad and 6 phobya G12 fans in push/pull @ 700rpm.

Temps are fine and everything hums along nice and quietly.