Spec me a watercooling loop

chuck990

chuck990

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Hey i need to cool an HD 4850 and a core 2 duo (LGA775) i would like a resevoir in the drive bays unless its not a good thing.... just looks good :p my case is lit by blue LEDs so any UV reactive liquid in blue or green should look good, i have a window so it would be nice if it looked nice aswell, i spent ages with cable management and wouldnt want it to be wasted, i think i have 2 spare bays (am not at home atm) so unless the res was single bay i would need a fan controller somewhere else, can you get 3.5" bay controllers? i dont really have a budget but dont want to go spending too much, so lets say under £350? but the less the better! thanks guys:D
 
No, it's just these sorts of threads tend not to get a lot of responses. Those who can spec you prefer to see a little work put in by you rather than just saying "spec me".

The reasons are to do with what you're trying to achieve. Firstly, water-cooling isn't like building a computer. It's much more personal. It's about doing some research, checking reviews, looking around for systems in the same case as yours, learning what's possible and what's not, what's truth and what's BS.

Secondly, there are three reasons for water-cooling.

1) You want to over-clock to a degree where air-cooling is either impossible or too noisy so water allows higher voltages and more heat generation without killing components.

2) You want your system to be midly over-clocked but you want silence.

3) You want it to look "kewl".

The solutions required for 1 and 2 are different. And I don't care about 3.

So, if you want some practical helpful advice, take a look via your favourite search engine for "waterblocks for 4850", "drive bay reservoirs" "775 waterblocks" etc. and follow the link in my sig to do some reading from OCUK's very own forums.

Then come back with what you think would be a good spec and we'll help with counter-suggestions and constructive criticisms.

Does that sound fair?

Oh, and £350 is a lot and will get very impressive water-cooling if you do some research.
 
^nicely put by mike

Only thing I'll add is that you dont really want to mix aluminium and copper components. Reason is electrochemical, and a fascinating area of study, but in short if you mix them things will corrode, and this is very bad.
 
kool cheers and sorry diddnt realise thought it was a bit more simple! id like all 3 reasons really :p already OC'ed to 4.3 but the GPU is getting quite hot and i soon plan to move the pc under a desk which i have tried and know it overheats and Blue screens, so will need to drop the clock or watercool also the fans are a bit loud, ill take a look!
 
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