Single or Dual Loop Water Cooling?

j3r0m3 · 28 Mar 2011 at 02:05

I am looking at going for another water cooling system, having previously used Exos by Koolance with a trusty P D 805...

Now I am running an I7 and looking to buy a GTX 470, I want to water cool the both.

Would I need to run a dual loop? Or would I find a single loop, with a 360mm radiator would suffice?

Idealy I want to mount the rad in the top of my HAF X with a Push/Pull config.

Playing with ideas but would like some input on whether I should consider running a dual loop - CPU on one, and GPU on another. So would I need an aditional rad? Perhaps add 120/240mm rad to the rear for the additional loop? I dunno haha.

Speedy Pete · 28 Mar 2011 at 02:50

personally i think a 360mm rad would be sound for them both

hlennie · 28 Mar 2011 at 06:09

Single loop build with triple rad if the temps you get are
Not what you want then just add another rad to your loop

pastymuncher · 28 Mar 2011 at 08:57

Single loop with a decent single 360 rad would be more than enough.

OLDPHART · 28 Mar 2011 at 08:59

Hi, a 360 Rad will cool your CPU + GPU just fine, l'm using a Black Ice GT Stealth 360 Rad its only 30mm thick. Both my CPU[4.2GHz] + GPU[470-850:1700:2000] as you can see are overclocked, even when the room temp reached 23-24'c CPU never went over 70'c and the GPU peaked at 52'c.

A single loop will do, all together mine cost about £300, but first of all read up on watercooling plenty of info on the net, research your parts read reviews, etc. Post your set up[parts] and you'll get plenty of help of the watercooling guys, if your stuck on anything.

Greboth · 28 Mar 2011 at 09:37

Another for a single loop. Just get a good performing radiator and you should be fine. Intels run hotter than amd's but my rig is easily cooled on a SR1 360 with fans at 800rpm so would expect you to be fine with just a triple.

j3r0m3 · 29 Mar 2011 at 21:07

Sounds very promising and would be amazing to have it all kept inside the HAF X.

Now to decide on the fan config for the rad - push & pull or push/pull? And which fans are going to be good to run a quiet system.

I have a NZXT Sentry 2 that I would like to use to control the speed of the fans over the temp of the rad...