Thinking of going water

ImMrChris · 12 Jun 2011 at 19:48

I'm a complete N00b with water cooling but the res's and tubing i've seen look so cool

any tips / kits for a serious water n00b ?

I would like to cool GPU and CPU

How noisy are the pumps ? atm i have a H50 and that is the loudest thing in my PC

Thx for info

23JMZ07 · 12 Jun 2011 at 19:55

Pumps are much louder than the H50 but IMO barely noticable.

What you planning on WCing

JeffyB · 12 Jun 2011 at 19:56

I read the ocuk advanced overclocking sticky
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17803239
Trawled the xs forums
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=70
and the stickies there
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202394
and then discovered skinnee and martin, two of the best reviewers of watercooling gear. This is where delta temps and watercooling clicked in my head, the graphs and tables didn't mean much to me at the start now i go straight to them to see how many watts can be disapated at XXXrpm fan speed
http://www.skinneelabs.com/
http://martinsliquidlab.org/
Be clear on what your goal is. Silence, performance and aesthetics and match your hardware to your needs. Think about your future cooling needs as it will probably save you money in the long run and most of all be patient.

JeffyB · 12 Jun 2011 at 19:57

23JMZ07 said:
Pumps are much louder than the H50 but IMO barely noticable.

What you planning on WCing

I can't even hear my d5 vario on speed 2, not heard a h50 but can't see it being quieter than a vario.

23JMZ07 · 12 Jun 2011 at 20:00

JeffyB said:
I can't even hear my d5 vario on speed 2

Its barely spinning on speed 2 lmfao

JeffyB · 12 Jun 2011 at 20:02

My loop is built for silence, hence the low pump speed and 600rpm fans. Flow rate makes little to no difference to temperatures anyway and was well researched by gabe from swiftech on the xs boards.
P2 is around 50% pump rpm, plenty for my cpu and gpu. Going faster can actually raise temps due to the higher heat dump from the pump into the water.

P1 = 1.800 revs./min
P2 = 2.550 revs./min
P3 = 3.300 revs./min
P4 = 4.050 revs./min
P5 = 4.800 revs./min

ImMrChris · 12 Jun 2011 at 20:05

23JMZ07 said:
Pumps are much louder than the H50 but IMO barely noticable.

What you planning on WCing

i7 2600k @ 4.6Ghz

460 GTX @ 850Mhz

in a HAF X

JeffyB · 12 Jun 2011 at 20:07

With those components your really just going for looks as the 2600k is a very cool running cpu and you won't net much more clockspeed under water, same with the 460.

Cleeecooo · 12 Jun 2011 at 21:46

D5 is silent. Have a look in my sig. perfect for what you are planning to do

The computer was absolutely silent by the end of it

GoogalyMoogaly · 13 Jun 2011 at 03:06

Cleeecooo said:
D5 is silent. Have a look in my sig. perfect for what you are planning to do
The computer was absolutely silent by the end of it

Really? Absolutely silent? So there was absolutely no difference in noise from when your PC is off? That's cool. I'd be happy with quiet! (Of course 'quiet' is subjective)

I've got the Swiftech MCP35X pump (in a XSPC dual bay res) and the XSPC 750 pump/res combo and they're both noise little buggers.

23JMZ07 · 13 Jun 2011 at 03:08

D5 is silent compared to the other things in the PC. If I turn my fans off I can hear the pump but when the fans are on even a little bit its silent.

Cleeecooo · 13 Jun 2011 at 07:46

23JMZ07 said:
D5 is silent compared to the other things in the PC. If I turn my fans off I can hear the pump but when the fans are on even a little bit its silent.

This is what I meant. You can hear the fans the most but they are also silent. I went from that liquid cooled HAF X to my TJ07 and I really hate my TJ07! it's a jet engine in comparison. Before I did the HAF X I thought my TJ wasn't so bad.

GoogalyMoogaly · 13 Jun 2011 at 10:42

So it's silent but still makes noise? riiiight...

I must be doing something very wrong then, because my watercooling isn't even quiet.
If I don't have my Vipers running at 1500rpm+ then my CPU will go over 40C under load. In fact even at 1500rpm+ it might still (I get the feeling the becomes a point where the fans spinning faster offer little extra in terms of cooling but does increase the noise) go over that, especially if the graphics card is under load too (and that can get into the high 40s too).
I probably shoulda bought a case more suited to good watercooling than the CM 690 II. Or maybe it's that my chip needs a lot of volts to be stable at it's overclock?

After my experience I'd say, if you are going to go down the watercooling road, do it right, don't try to do it cheap. Just be aware that's it's not going to be cheap, especially if you do CPU & GPU.