Water block and others

krisbutler · 3 Jan 2010 at 20:28

Right been out of the watercooling game for a while

have picked up another mountain mods ufo to play with im only cooling the cpu at the moment but will do a seperate loop for the gfx at a later date

Will have

a pa 120.3 rad

Xspc Dual Bay res

1/2 tubing

but dont know what cpu block , and pump to get

rig is in my sig

DavyBoy · 3 Jan 2010 at 20:34

The Laing DDC's are nice compact little pumps, you can get either 10w or 18w versions, or there's also the Laing D5/Swiftech MCP655, these are supposed to be quite a bit better than the DDC's.

As for blocks, I'd say either the EK Supreme, or the Watercool Heatkiller 3.

krisbutler · 3 Jan 2010 at 20:41

any pumps a bit cheaper ? and yeah noise must be low

Danm54 · 3 Jan 2010 at 21:17

Im going for this one
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-001-OC&groupid=962&catid=1522&subcat=

Never used it but the specs are ok.

I assume you'll be using 2 pumps for the twin loop, if so, this may be the one.

krisbutler · 3 Jan 2010 at 21:20

yeah i was looking at that , but not sure if its good enoufgh for a big 120.3 and double bay res

if someone could shed some light if its a good pump

DavyBoy · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:21

You should keep an eye on the Members Market mate, there's always watercooling bits getting sold on there.

I managed to get pretty much everything that's in my loop from the MM, the only thing that I bought new was my Heatkiller 3 CU.

And it's all really good quality stuff I got as well..

It's always better to buy quality parts when it comes to WC, as they say, if you buy cheap, you buy twice...

krisbutler · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:42

i got banned from the MM years ago for bumping my for sale threads

Danm54 · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:49

krisbutler said:
yeah i was looking at that , but not sure if its good enoufgh for a big 120.3 and double bay res

if someone could shed some light if its a good pump

It says it does CPU and GPU systems and shifts 500L/H, thats 8L a minute, about a mains pressure tap half open.

If you're worried the Liang DDC is only a few quid more

shadowscotland · 4 Jan 2010 at 13:28

linky to my pump testing - that pump is a rebadges D-tek DB-1
will do a PA / single block / res - no problem

There should be some actual loop flow numbers and sound rankings

bifday2k · 4 Jan 2010 at 16:27

the ocz pump linked earlier also comes in a 800 l/h version too, that ocuk don't stock.

shadowscotland · 4 Jan 2010 at 16:59

The 800 version is quiet loud (according to martin's liquid labs)

Rank in terms of noise level:

D5 setting 1 – 0.62 GPM
D5 setting 2 – 0.92 GPM
DB-1 – 1.09 GPM
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D5 setting 3 – 1.26GPM
DDC pro – 1.53GPM (1.86 with xspc top – noise difference unknown)
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D5 setting 4 – 1.63GPM
CPX-pro - 1.85GPM (untested based on others opinion)
D5 setting 5 – 1.89GPM