Water cooling newbie help!

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Hi All,

I have just purchased the Thermaltake Bigwater SE kit, along with the M2 radiator, GPU block and flow indicator. I know this isn't the best kit around, but I wanted something quiet and not so much for overclocking but more to keep the system at a nice stable temp.
I asked in another forum how I should set this up but pretty muched got laughed out of the forum for buying what was considered a load of junk.

One of the comments made was that the pump supplied would not be powerful enough to create a strong enough flow through the system to cool down the GPU and CPU.

Can someone give me some advice on what they think I am really struggling here and Thermal take aren't replying to my mails.

Do I need a bigger pump or will this one be good enough to run all the above?
 
The flowrate is 90 liters per hour which does seem kinda low compared to a Eheim 1048 that can do 600 liters per hour but looking at this review the kit gets lower temps than a Thermalright XP-90 at full speed so it cools better and is quieter.

What videocard do you have?


[edit]another review
I’m sure you’ll have no trouble finding water cooling snobs ready to talk this kit down, but in reality, despite its slightly “budget” look and feel, it works perfectly well.
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