Water Cooling, advice please
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Thats an american competitor....
Aside from that it looks good, remarkably for a first spec. There's a couple of parts you don't need, the chipset rubber pads and the feser one being the main ones. Distilled water @ 60p a litre is a better idea than feser if you don't care deeply about it being red.
Hose clamps look like they might be jubilee clamps. If they are, fine, otherwise buy jubilee clamps from a hardware store. Shrouds are worth considering if you have space, hollowed out fans are the way to go if you don't want to buy shrouds.
Putting the board and cpu under at once is pretty brave, it's probably worth setting it up with just the cpu block first, then adding the chipset in once that's working well. You've specified that really well.
edit: 1m of tygon is almost certainly too little
Aside from that it looks good, remarkably for a first spec. There's a couple of parts you don't need, the chipset rubber pads and the feser one being the main ones. Distilled water @ 60p a litre is a better idea than feser if you don't care deeply about it being red.
Hose clamps look like they might be jubilee clamps. If they are, fine, otherwise buy jubilee clamps from a hardware store. Shrouds are worth considering if you have space, hollowed out fans are the way to go if you don't want to buy shrouds.
Putting the board and cpu under at once is pretty brave, it's probably worth setting it up with just the cpu block first, then adding the chipset in once that's working well. You've specified that really well.
edit: 1m of tygon is almost certainly too little
Swiftech MCR320-QP Quiet Power 3X120mm - Black
EK-Supreme LT - Acetal+Nickel for 775 & 1366
hi. terms of degreass are you looking at of the radiators and the cpu block. save some money if its just as good the one i choose from the first post. thx you
EK-Supreme LT - Acetal+Nickel for 775 & 1366
hi. terms of degreass are you looking at of the radiators and the cpu block. save some money if its just as good the one i choose from the first post. thx you
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I cant tell you precisely how many degrees worse your choice will be. Too many variables by far.
Swiftec radiators are significantly worse than feser/thermochill/black ice. I think that's a bad area to save money on. The ek supreme lt however is a good block. It is considered inferior to the heatkiller, but is a better place to save money if need be.
However, if money is an issue, I strongly recommend buying good hardware second hand rather than buying middle of the road hardware new. Much of watercooling gear lasts basically forever, most of mine is second hand.
Swiftec radiators are significantly worse than feser/thermochill/black ice. I think that's a bad area to save money on. The ek supreme lt however is a good block. It is considered inferior to the heatkiller, but is a better place to save money if need be.
However, if money is an issue, I strongly recommend buying good hardware second hand rather than buying middle of the road hardware new. Much of watercooling gear lasts basically forever, most of mine is second hand.
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If your in the US get primoflex instead of tygon - cheaper, better and comes in a very nice red 
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Im pretty sure Watercooling companies in the UK can order you whatever you want for less than you can get it. There's a larger German watercooling company that stocks everything and supplies UK shops.
I have the P6T under water and the only way I could sensibly loop the water between the VRM blocks was to use 90-degree agles around the outside of the CPU socket. And I used thinwall 3/8" ID tubing. I would suggest that the 3/4" fat stuff you have specced will be way too tight a bend in the confined space you have available.
If you do want to do the chipset then I would seriously suggest much small tubing and do 2 loops from something like a Typhoon III reservoir and using the same D5 pump you have specced.
If you do want to do the chipset then I would seriously suggest much small tubing and do 2 loops from something like a Typhoon III reservoir and using the same D5 pump you have specced.
P6T blocks are widely available in the UK, even the bitspower ones. I have EK and they're pretty good.