Water Cooling - basic Idea.

[SheriffHD]

so.....basic.

looking to, for my next build, use a basic water cooling loop.

Seeing as this will be my first water cooling attempt, I dont want to go too far and do a GPU + Chipset water cooling loop, not just because it will be too much, but also because I'm not that rich.
my main focus on my build is to make sure I have top cpu and a lot of ram.

The idea is to go with the cpu Loop inside a CM storm scout 2 case.
I dont want to dremal away the bottom HDD cage, but I know that the top cage can be removed, so my thoughts for the loop would be as follows.

dual bayres pump combo, down to 120mm rad up to CPU block then to rear mounted 120mm rad then back to res.

Does this sound like an alright set up for a loop?

as for coolant I was looking at the stuff by Mayhem, and want to have a whole black and white theme to the build (nicknamed "stealth") And was thinking either the pastel, or aurora (aurora just looks sweet as hell)
I plan to clock the 3770k to 4ghz so which coolant would you guys say would perform better at that clock speeds? (if the differnce isnt much then id chose which looks better)

 

[OptimaLnrg]

pastel white + clear tubing (not clearflex, masterkleer, tygon, primochill LOL)

or

white tubing and clear x1.

Aurora is a no-no.

Temp difference between pastel and x1 is small.

I would get a bigger case personally.

 

[SheriffHD]

My choice was between a Storm scout 2 and a 600t, but I wanted a clear panel (if you have water cooling you at least want to see it right?)
but I dont want a white case (600t only comes with clear side on the white edition and not the black, which sucks)

so the toss up went with the scout 2

 

[OptimaLnrg]

oic

you can buy window panels for the graphite 600t for ~£20

In any case the 600t isn't great for watercooling either.

 

[SheriffHD]

any case you would recomend? (not a Haf case, cant use certain items when a friend already has it. Im a odd one like that)

 

[stuie]

switch 810 comes in black or whit with panels and loads of watercooling options

 

[teenwolf]

the cm690 advanced is a good starter case.
can house 2x 240mm rads in.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-244-CM

 

[joshcowin]

Coolant i would say x1 as the pastel has been known to stain blocks,case wise get something that can hold a 240mm and a 120mm radiator to cool a cpu and gpu

 

[SheriffHD]

well main reason i wanted the Scout 2 was becuase it was ideal for taking to lan parties (tend to have one a month round a friends house)

what would you guys say to the corsair vengeance case?

 

[Avenged7Fold]

well main reason i wanted the Scout 2 was becuase it was ideal for taking to lan parties (tend to have one a month round a friends house)

what would you guys say to the corsair vengeance case?

I checked out a in depth review of the vengeance case, you can put a 240mm rad on top, behind the 3.5" drive bays if you take them out or on the side panel. This is more than enough choice for a CPU only loop with room to expand. To me the case looks pretty much like a army themed version of the 650D with the front 200mm fan replace with 2 120mm.

If you like the look of the case, its a good choice for a mid tower WC case.

Ive used aurora coolant and pastel coolant. While aurora gets bashed a lot saying its for display purposes, temperature wise, it still performed really well. I personally wouldn't go for aurora again because after a while the silvery practicals in the coolant get trapped along the thread's of fittings/tube reservoirs and in the radiator. They DON'T clog up the system, have noticeable effects on flow rate or temperature, only that after a while if you have no silvery particles left, it just becomes clear coloured fluid. If you get aurora white/pearl, it will over a few months probably look like a what you get if you were to mix a bit of milk with a lot of water! To be fair, after 8 months aurora blue didn't stain my hosing a little bit!

Go for the Pastel range, looks great has high lifetime and will not change its look over time.

Here is a before and after picture of my aurora blue coolant first when i installed it and second one is 6 months later.

 

[*Rich*]

*snip*

Deffo looks like a show piece coolant, almost looks like you've swapped the coolant out as it's so different.

 

[SheriffHD]

well, cheers for that. that pastal stuff looks like it would be a better choice indeed.

The idea would be to do a Black White theme.

I liked the vengance case, but i aready nicknamed the build "stealth" so ideally wanted a case with nice flowing lines in the design.
Athough the blocky army style case would match my desk (As my desk is covered in camo vinyl)

 

[_lecro_]

well, cheers for that. that pastal stuff looks like it would be a better choice indeed.

The idea would be to do a Black White theme.

I liked the vengance case, but i aready nicknamed the build "stealth" so ideally wanted a case with nice flowing lines in the design.
Athough the blocky army style case would match my desk (As my desk is covered in camo vinyl)

While your at it mate can you get your sig within the limits

400 x 75