suggestions on rads please

skinneyb · 21 Mar 2012 at 10:22

hi am looking at water cooling the following and am wondering what rads will be best was thinking a EK Water Blocks EK-CoolStream RAD XTX 360 rad and 240 .
EK Water Blocks EK-CoolStream RAD XTX rad using a Laing 18W DDC-Pump 12V DDC-1T Plus with top will the above rads and pump do the job also what mb block should i go for

x 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 580 SuperClocked w/Backplate 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£329.99

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
£233.99

Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
£122.98

kind regards

lrlcr · 21 Mar 2012 at 10:31

don't bother with MB block, really unnecessary for 90% or users.

Get a d5 for your loop as there'll be a load of restriction.

skinneyb · 21 Mar 2012 at 10:36

right ok thanks will rads be ok for this loop with the pump you sergested

lrlcr · 21 Mar 2012 at 10:42

what do you want? silence or max overclocking headroom?

skinneyb · 21 Mar 2012 at 10:58

sort of in between am thinking that the 360 rad i have selected with 25mm fans in push pull will not fit as mb will be in the way

lrlcr · 21 Mar 2012 at 13:42

in that case any of the thick low fpi rads will be fine. A thick with 3 fans will be quieter and have similar performance to a thin with 6

rjk · 21 Mar 2012 at 16:08

ddc 18w would be fine for that setup.

what is this fascination with the D5?

I would suggest SR1 rads for your system with some 1850rpm gentle typhoons on them. push pull is unnecessary.
the DDC pump you mention is fine.

dont bother with a motherboard block unless you want to thrash your hardware or just want it for aesthetics.

motherboard blocks are a good idea if you are serious about overclocking.

TwsT · 21 Mar 2012 at 17:15

rjkoneill said:
ddc 18w would be fine for that setup.

what is this fascination with the D5?

I would suggest SR1 rads for your system with some 1850rpm gentle typhoons on them. push pull is unnecessary.
the DDC pump you mention is fine.

dont bother with a motherboard block unless you want to thrash your hardware or just want it for aesthetics.

motherboard blocks are a good idea if you are serious about overclocking.

Indeed the push pull with GT's is completely pointless i tested it and GT's suck at pulling almost no improvement at all.