W/C Newbie Seeks Advice

[Bint Box]

Hi,

I have never used water cooling before and now have a need to water-cool a GTX580 card that runs 24/7 at constantly high fan speeds in my current setup.

I have already burnt out one MSI Twin Frozr II GTX580 due to one of the fitted cooling fans failing. The other fan was incapable of keeping the card cool and the card overheated and burnt out.

My question is, can I buy an off the shelf water cooling complete kit that will allow me to cool a CPU and graphics card or do I need to source individual parts? I realise I will probably have to source a water block for the GTX580 separately but are all the other components available in a complete kit?

The CPU is a hex core Xeon 5650 in a 1366 board if that has any bearing on what kit I should be looking for?


Thx for any advice.
Bintos

 

[DataVampire]

Hi,

I have never used water cooling before and now have a need to water-cool a GTX580 card that runs 24/7 at constantly high fan speeds in my current setup.

I have already burnt out one MSI Twin Frozr II GTX580 due to one of the fitted cooling fans failing. The other fan was incapable of keeping the card cool and the card overheated and burnt out.

My question is, can I buy an off the shelf water cooling complete kit that will allow me to cool a CPU and graphics card or do I need to source individual parts? I realise I will probably have to source a water block for the GTX580 separately but are all the other components available in a complete kit?

The CPU is a hex core Xeon 5650 in a 1366 board if that has any bearing on what kit I should be looking for?


Thx for any advice.
Bintos

Hi there.
In most cases you can buy a cpu water cooling kit, you can choose kits with better pumps/rads. but in most cases you wil have to purchase a separate block for your gpu. bare in mind. I think a bare minimum of rad size should be around 360. someone correct me if im wrong. also bare in mind kits come with all you need to get a basic loop up and running. but they will not contain angled fittings better quality tubing/ fans or fluid.

A lot of people buy kits then upgrade them to better quality parts. so if you have the money sometime sit is a better option to go for a custom loop from the outset.(this is not always the case).
One of the better kits available are the overlcokers bundles. they come with better fans/fluid than most and you can customise the kit to get better rads and also pumps. might be worth looking at. then just add a gpu and some more fittings.

Bare in mind your using a what I would call a non standard cpu so you would have to check the kits support your cpu ie the cpu block, but most suit the mainstream cpus
Hope this helps somewhat

 

[Bint Box]

DV,

Thank you for the reply, most appreciated.

I thought that as the Xeon 5650 CPU was LGA 1366 that it would be OK to use any CPU block that was OK for LGA 1366, is this not the case?

I take your point about going for the custom loop in the first instance, I could be buying parts that become redundant if I upgrade any items bundled in an off the shelf kit. I will take a look at the OcUK bundles to see what I can find.

After a bit of research and to avoid too much case modding I quite like the look of an XSPC D5 Dual Bay Reservoir and pump if I go for a custom kit. It will fit away nicely in the drive bays and looks to have enough power for my needs. There is also a similar version from EK (EK-Bay RES D5) at similar price.

I need to work out how to get a 360 radiator into the Temjin TJ07 without drilling holes in the case as I will be selling the case when the project is finished in a few months.

Thx
Bintos