Swiftech H2O 120

olryst

olryst

olryst

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Hi, im planning on ocing the phonom 2 550 to 4GHz with my new build.

Anyone know how much better cooling i'd get with Swiftech H2O 120 Compact Kit compared to a high end air cooler

Also would the water cooloing be quite a lot quiter?

Would it worth getting a better cpu block?

Thanks.
 
Water cooling is colder, quieter, more expensive, and more effort.

Assembling your own invariably leads to far better results than the kit options, but will generally cost more.

Redeeming feature is that it's an investment, a watercooling system will be good for years and years through many builds.
 
Would you be able to suggets some individual parts then?

I've got some OCZ flex ram aswell and I would possibly use it to cool my 1GHz 4890 when I get it, if its worth it.
 
case? budget?

Should also do quite a bit of reading up on watercooling as well. You will need at least a triple rad to cool that lot and you wouldn't want the RAM in the same loop due to the tubing size and the restrictive blocks.
 
Note that if a triple radiator doesn't fit, several smaller ones may do. I'm using two 120s and a 240 as that happens to fit my case best.

I'm not sure I agree with PaulyD on the ram. It'll be quite possible to have it in the same loop, you'll just need to be more cunning than joining everything in series. Splitting the tubing into three parallel lines with ram on two of them for example, offers fairly low resistance to flow, fairly slow flow rate through the blocks, all is well. If you cool the chipset/mosfets as well then cooling those in parallel with the ram could also work.

You're free to do whatever you like with water cooling, that's the joy. And if it doesn't work well, nevermind, join the tubes up differently for the second attempt
 
I've got an antec 900 and would about £200 be enougth.

Maybe ill just do cpu for now and buy stuff with adding to it later in mind.
 
In that review you will also see a review of the Swiftech separates that achieved the best delta c (temperature below ambient) of all the single manufacturer solutions. But you would probably get a better solution by selecting the best parts from a range of manufacturers.

Specific solutions need specific requirements.

I would start small (like using a 220 compact) on the cpu and see if you really dig on water cooling. Then you could add a separate loop for your gfx and other parts and build slowly gaining knowledge and experience prior to jumping in and trying to assemble the mother of all rigs with little experience.

Remember that when you WC your CPU you no longer have the airflow from your CPU cooler so you need to manage your airflow for the other components as well
 
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Would someone be able to suggest individual parts for a good cpu loop then please.

Thanks.

Say £150 - £200
 
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