Too much for one loop?

[Adrianr]

Two loops sounds like an almighty hassle for my first dabble in watercooling, though likewise I don't want to install something simple that will just need upgrading in a week.

Now I plan to cool my Cpu, northbridge/southbridge, gpu and most likely mosfets (doing away with the motherboard heatsink assembly all together)... Is this too much to ask from a mcp655 and a pa120.3?

CPU block would be an Apogee GTZ, Northbridge/southbridge would be taken care of by a singular 790i block from aqua computing. GPU I'm not entirely sure about but the system will be SLI again at some point so that's another GPU the pump/rad has to deal with...

Is it possible whilst still retaining good performance? Or am I asking a little much?

 

[Adrianr]

The SB does'nt get warm enough to require watercooling. I took the heatpipe contraption off my board and stuck a passive Zalman NB heatsink on the SB. The NB has a XSPC Delta on it and the Mosfets have a part of the original cooler on them. Never needed anything else. I have the CPU, NB and GPU all in one loop. No need to watercool anything else and it will just add extra restriction to the loop.

On the 790i board I'm using there is no chance of seperately cooling the SB, as a dual slot card already covers quite a lot of it. If your going to watercool one you may aswell watercool both. At least ide only have to plug in one more component to do both anyway.

My eventual aim is to remove pretty much all fans bar the rad + psu. Noise is far more important than all out performance.