Swiftech complete kits anyone used them ?

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I am looking at things for my next build and have been looking at closed water loops mainly the ones from corsair and coolit. While looking i came across swiftech kits mainly the h20 320 ultima xt kit which is a 360 rad kit that comes with everything. Has anyone on here bought and used one of these kits and if so how did you get on with it. Second is there any chance of OcUK getting these kits in as looking at them i think they would be of interest to a lot of people on here looking to get into watercooling. Thanks for any replies as usual guys look forward to reading what peeps have to say :).
 
If you were going to go for a kit like that I would personally say to spec your own custom loop instead.
 
Yeah i have seen another kit advertised elsewhere for £140 and am slowly leaning more and more to the diy route then buying a closed loop system.
 
As an addition, I bought the Swiftech Apex Ultima H20 220 kit, ages ago, and it was great to set up, had everything I needed and cooled my CPU very well, 1.55v and the temps were great!

Although I did want to get a better rad, was thinking of a XSPC RX360 as an addition, but ended up selling everything as I couldn't be bothered to clean it all haha.

Overall it is a good starter kit but for it's price I would just go for something else.

I heard swiftech are releasing a closed kit like the Corsair H50 but a dual rad version, you can look in to that?
 
Having thought about it i am looking at this for the loop only having cpu on it for now and this is the main part of it. So would this give me better then the swiftech kit and have i made any mistakes in picking the parts i have. It is so many years since i last bothered with water cooling i am not up on it at all although i am able to assemble and leak test, components have moved on by miles since the last time i used it.

Black ice GT stealth 360 rad.
EK-Reservoir Combo DCP 4.0
12V Laing DDC-1T Pro 10W (MCP350)w/XSPC V3 Acetal Pump Top
1/2" ID - 3/4" OD XSPC Blue/UV Blue
1/4" BSPP - 1/2" Highflow Hose Tail
Zinc Plated Jubilee Wormdrive Clip 3/4" OD

All thoughts and ideas appreciated :).
 
My first steps into water cooling was a 2nd hand swiftech H20 120 kit, the kits are very handy for beginners as it is proper water cooling, and u do have to fit it all yourself, just what makes them good for beginners is the instructions that come with them, and knowing that all the components are there.

Now they are not the cheapest, and sourcing everything yourself is generally cheaper, it all depends on the person really.

I moved on from that old kit, and specced my own and built, but the kit was a good start for me at the beginning, it meant my 2nd loop went much smoother for me.

Not sure of the cost of that swiftech kit, but sent you a link to a site selling kits comprised of seperate parts, that will be very good, and won't break the bank either. A 360 kit being only £130.
 
bifday2k said:
My first steps into water cooling was a 2nd hand swiftech H20 120 kit, the kits are very handy for beginners as it is proper water cooling, and u do have to fit it all yourself, just what makes them good for beginners is the instructions that come with them, and knowing that all the components are there.

Now they are not the cheapest, and sourcing everything yourself is generally cheaper, it all depends on the person really.

I moved on from that old kit, and specced my own and built, but the kit was a good start for me at the beginning, it meant my 2nd loop went much smoother for me.

Not sure of the cost of that swiftech kit, but sent you a link to a site selling kits comprised of seperate parts, that will be very good, and won't break the bank either. A 360 kit being only £130.
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I considered one of theese kits myself, or one of the ocuk bundles, unfortunately i ran out of work, hence no excess cash to spend. Now that work has picked up im thinking of going the custom route. I already have 10 x bitspower silver diamond 1/2 inch barbs, 4m of 7/16 masterkleer uv blue tubing, just got to get the money gathered for a rad (pa 120.3) and a pump/res or combo, fed up listening to cpu fans:D
 
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Yeh i know some hate those sorta kits, but for newbies they are spot on to learn with.

Haha you may then start hearing loads more noises from the comp setter, i certainly did, i had to take my 5770 fan off auto, as it stayed at 30% and was more then noticeable when my rad fans are at 700rpm, my case fans are at 500rpm, and i can't hear my psu fan at all.

Thank god cat 10.2's let me use a 10% minimum fan via afterburner lol.

But yeh you will love the performance and the quietness love being able to have sub 70c temps on my cpu with my fans as low as mentioned, and still knowing i can ramp them up if i wanna show off hahaha.
 
Yeah bif mate, if i could get cpu fan noise down/eradicated. When gaming my sli 275 gpu's tend to get prety loud, but im thinking of selling those and getting a single card. My case is prety sizeable for watercooling, but id have to send my top panel away to get cut to fit a rad.

Case as it looks at the mo.
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Well, ive actually added another hdd since that pic. But i gotta admit, my two samsung drives are extremely quiet, (F1 320gb for os, F3 500 for storage,) The loudest drive in the system is an old wd caviar 250gb, first drive i ever bought, needs binned tbh lol. I can run p95 at 64-71c, 1.2750 vcore, gaming on BFBC2 knocks the cpu to 69c at 4ghz, not too bad as i game with headphones. I like the idea of watercooling as a challenge to myself tbh, 3 years ago i didnt even know how to overclock lol. the black art that scared the heck out of me.:D
 
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Yeh i was the same, started overclocking 4 years ago, with 775 stuff, all dualies, 2 years ago thought sod it water time, to see how far i could push my stuff, so along came that swiftech kit, allowed me to bench mark my e8400 @ 4.5ghz, but i generally ran it low volts at 3.6, so with that and water was very cool running.

So initially i was going for better performance but without massive budget lol. But when i started researching my own loop, it was really all about the challenge and going quiet too.

I found it strangely fun doing the research, and thinking through ways of installing and stuff like that, certainly was fun trying to install a PA 120.2 in a CM 590 case, which are not renowned for watercooling compatibility. But the full size drive bay top to bottom is perfect, well if u take out the HD Module lol.

Im sure once u have it all installed and stuff, you will be tempted to see what u can get ur I7 too, when i sorted all mine out, took me not long to get a stable 4ghz, i then saved that profile sat back and was like mmm now what, so i went for max blck testing and max clock with HT on, reached 226blck and 4.6ghz, dunno how stable that was really, gonna wait for winter ambients to see what i can get max at full stability.

Now these days im trying to find a new challenge bleh lol.
 
4.5 ghz on an E8400 is very good, most i got from my s775 cpus was 3.7 on an e6600, 3.8 on a q6600, (that was pretty hard) and 3.8 on a q9550, all on air, the q9550 would have went higher, nice medium 1.200 vid chip, clocked to a very easy 3.825, sold it to fund my i7 rig along with a p5q deluxe and 4gb of reaper ram, (still use reaper in my i7, love those ram kits lol) I remember reading a few of your posts about how you built your loop nice and cheap, members market and quality second hand parts iirc. Im thinking of doing the same myself. Ive done a lot of reading on watercooling, ie how to assemble a loop using barbs, (bloody tight fit, 7/16 on 1/2 inch barbs), and putting it all together, ie no power to the motherboard when setting up, (paper clip for psu). The thing that baffles me is bleeding the loop, i suppose this will be different depending on the type of resevoir used, ie bay res/tube res or cobined pump/res.?
 
My current and last water loops have been swiftech stuff. I got one of the h20-220 setups off an auction site for 30 quid, worked great and now have it in the wires computer with a gpu block added in. My current setup also came from the auction site, vario d5, microrez and apogee gt etc. Works completely silently and is a top performing setup. Grabbed that complete for 40 quid lol! Shop around and you will find some bargains, swiftech stuff is top shelf stuff except for the rads. Only thing I'm changing now is to a bigger case and a larger rad.
the 5870 and CPU even overclocked run fine with a dual rad.
 
Yeah it is a combination of noise off the cpu fan and the fact that to cool well with air these days you have to have hunking great chunks of metal hanging in your case which makes memory a bit restricted and working in the case is a lot harder. Was going to get a closed loop system originally but the more i read and thought about it the more i was swung over to a custom loop and being able to buy a kit that has everything is the way to go for me at the minute. Thanks for the help guys one of the reasons i come to these forums more then most because although there are a few people who are lets be polite and say less then helpful the majority on here are still good and helpful when they can be. Once i get things sorted will be ordering the kit and the case and if i can find the damn camera will do some sort of build\**** up log :).
 
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4.5 ghz on an E8400 is very good, most i got from my s775 cpus was 3.7 on an e6600, 3.8 on a q6600, (that was pretty hard) and 3.8 on a q9550, all on air, the q9550 would have went higher, nice medium 1.200 vid chip, clocked to a very easy 3.825, sold it to fund my i7 rig along with a p5q deluxe and 4gb of reaper ram, (still use reaper in my i7, love those ram kits lol) I remember reading a few of your posts about how you built your loop nice and cheap, members market and quality second hand parts iirc. Im thinking of doing the same myself. Ive done a lot of reading on watercooling, ie how to assemble a loop using barbs, (bloody tight fit, 7/16 on 1/2 inch barbs), and putting it all together, ie no power to the motherboard when setting up, (paper clip for psu). The thing that baffles me is bleeding the loop, i suppose this will be different depending on the type of resevoir used, ie bay res/tube res or cobined pump/res.?
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Nah all my stuff was brand spanking new, just got lucky really, i chose low end parts, Ek Supreme LT block, single bay/res pump (not brilliant but does the job for cpu only loop), main thing was i got damn lucky and got a PA 120.2 for close to £30 from OCuk when they where selling them cheap, normally that would have been a lot closer to £50.

But yeh clever research, luck, members market stuff and it so doesn't have to be expensive, even ebay can be good, but just need luck for that really lol.

@RizlaKing

Don't forget to check that link i sent to your trust e-mail, about those kits at that site, which sadly i can't post here, may be abit cheaper then a swiftech kit, for the same performance.
 
bifday2k said:
My first steps into water cooling was a 2nd hand swiftech H20 120 kit, the kits are very handy for beginners as it is proper water cooling, and u do have to fit it all yourself, just what makes them good for beginners is the instructions that come with them, and knowing that all the components are there.

Now they are not the cheapest, and sourcing everything yourself is generally cheaper, it all depends on the person really.

I moved on from that old kit, and specced my own and built, but the kit was a good start for me at the beginning, it meant my 2nd loop went much smoother for me.

Not sure of the cost of that swiftech kit, but sent you a link to a site selling kits comprised of seperate parts, that will be very good, and won't break the bank either. A 360 kit being only £130.
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+1 I started with an apex ultra kit about 4 years. It is a great way to get into watercooling and gives you the option off adding replacing bits as and when you et more confident.
 
Yeah that £140 kit is what i think i am going to go with thanks Bifday is a happy compromise between performance and price for now and allows me to upgrade to bigger and better when cash is available :D. It is a shame OcUK don't compete for that level of kit and would certainly increase the people that buy from here for that sort of stuff although i guess those numbers would probably be too small for the time and effort for it to be worth OcUK doing it.
 
No probs, its probably abit cheaper then a swiftech kit from what i remember, and will give just the same performance, never bought a kit from that site myself, but im sure it will come with instructions, if not, there is always many here that will help if its needed.
 
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