spec me a watercooling system...

red eye · 30 Dec 2011 at 22:19

....that is cheaper then EK H3O Watercooling Kit - Supreme LT 120 £123, internal res and not ugly. the oc v8 is a good price but im not liking the drive bay reservoir

The idea is to water cool the cpu then at a later date the gpu.
maybe on a 2nd loop maybe with different colored water...

im :confused:

Cleeecooo · 30 Dec 2011 at 22:58

Go for the V8 and call OcUK and ask them to switch it for a tube one

Meridian · 31 Dec 2011 at 12:38

I don't think the EK has a drivebay reservoir? I've got the HF rather than the LT, but the instructions are (as best I can tell) the same. If so, what you get is a standard cylindrical reservoir which fits directly to the side of the pump, but the pump/res combo fits inside the case, not a bay. It's the XSPCs which use a bay combo kit. (The HF uses separate pump and res).

If you do go with the EK, can I suggest quieter fans? That's my biggest complaint with the HF.

M

Cleeecooo · 31 Dec 2011 at 12:51

The EK kits have a cylindrical res, but I'd go for one of the OcUK kits over it any day as they have better pumps and you can get them with cylindrical res aswell

Hyburnate · 31 Dec 2011 at 17:03

You and your pumps.

red eye · 31 Dec 2011 at 20:56

thanks for the replys, just out of curiosity what is a decent pump around the same price as the EK pump? £30 I think

Hyburnate · 31 Dec 2011 at 21:02

the EK 2.2 is a decent pump

Cleeecoooo just likes splashing cash on expensive pumps.

Cleeecooo · 1 Jan 2012 at 02:57

red eye said:
thanks for the replys, just out of curiosity what is a decent pump around the same price as the EK pump? £30 I think

Hyburnate said:
the EK 2.2 is a decent pump Cleeecoooo just likes splashing cash on expensive pumps.

Ok, it's a decent pump, but a more powerful one wouldn't hurt

Better longevity

Maybe a Laing DDC

Meridian · 1 Jan 2012 at 09:59

You did notice that the OP was asking for a kit cheaper than £123, right? Not asking what the best was?

M

Cleeecooo · 1 Jan 2012 at 11:36

Meridian said:
You did notice that the OP was asking for a kit cheaper than £123, right? Not asking what the best was?

M

Yes, but I'm saying it's better value to go for the OcUK kits

Meridian · 1 Jan 2012 at 11:59

Cleeecooo said:
Yes, but I'm saying it's better value to go for the OcUK kits

How can nearly doubling the cost be "better value"? Not every water cooler is hardcore you know? And the OP asked for cheap, not better value, or £/oC cooling.

M

Cleeecooo · 1 Jan 2012 at 13:15

Meridian said:
How can nearly doubling the cost be "better value"? Not every water cooler is hardcore you know? And the OP asked for cheap, not better value, or £/oC cooling.

M

OP said the V8 kit was good apart from the bay res so I presumed he was looking at those aswell

They have better hardware and the hardware included is more likely to last.

If your just cooling a CPU and plan to dry that way, then yeah, EK kit is better value but I presume that everyone may want to expand their loops later unless they state otherwise

red eye · 2 Jan 2012 at 16:37

sorry, I was looking if there is a good set up that is cheaper then the EK and v8 kits, the range of products is too large and if I attempted to spec a system I would have failed.

Anyway I went for the EK kit in the end as it comes with coolant and ok looking fittings, after seeing some youtube vids of mayhems pearl coolant I think I should have went with a drivebay res.

So here comes a coolent question. I seen a few posts on here about gunk build up in the water blocks from colored premix, I dont want to be removing the waterblock when its time to replace the coolent so is there any safe premixes out there?

im thinking of mayhems aurora when I add gpu block in the near future

Cleeecooo · 2 Jan 2012 at 16:43

All the mayhems range are safe.

rjk · 2 Jan 2012 at 17:19

new ocuk kit range due any day now too

Hyburnate · 2 Jan 2012 at 19:35

Just remember that Mayhems is only usable for something like 6 months, whereas the Pastel range and X1 range is ok for 9 months, its upto you.

Cleeecooo · 2 Jan 2012 at 20:19

Pastel is ok for 3yrs
Aurora for 6 months
X1 for 1 yr

red eye · 3 Jan 2012 at 16:51

so how long for plain distilled water with a kill coil?

Cleeecooo · 4 Jan 2012 at 17:32

red eye said:
so how long for plain distilled water with a kill coil?

1 yr

You need 2 kill coils