Water Cooling - The Bees Knees

allllec

allllec

allllec

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Lets say i have lots of money to spend on water cooling.. (this is kinda gona be in the future but yeah..)

I don't care for noise :) all i ask is the radiator is external. preferably housed in something.

Is there a complete kit i should get ? or different bits from different manufacturers?

Asetek Waterchill Xternal CPU/VGA/Chipset Cooling System - Silver (WC-045-VP) looks nice... but i know nothing about the world of water cooling so bear with me :(

Oh ps, would prefer (not essential) CPU and Chipset cooling :) GPU is just a bonus


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alec
 
Swiftech H20 Apex Ultra Plus - excellent kit with CPU, nbridge and GPU cooling. And a 120.2 rad that mounts to the rear or your case.
 
not took keen on that Rad tbh, any other suggestions, i dont mind mixing and matchecing but i dont really fancy screwing the rad into the back of my case lol
 
If money is no object then go custom cooling rather than a pre-assembled kit such as Swiftech Apex.
There are better components for each part of your system that can be bought than the ones put into a kit.
For your CPU Block - the most popular choices seem to be
Swiftech Storm G4
AquaXtreme MP-05 SP Limited Edition (get Delrin rather than PolyCarbonate)
Nexxos XP

GPU Block
AquaXtreme MP1
DangerDen Maze4

PUMP
Laing DDC+ Ultra
Laing D5 Vario
AquaXreme 50z

RADIATOR
Thermochill PA Series seems to be the best available
PA120.2 - will be sufficient for both CPU+GPU cooling
The Swiftech or Black Ice Pro 2 are other alternatives you can consider.

RESERVIOR
There are different styles available such as ones that can be mounted in one of your 5.25" Bays or Aquatube styles - have a look at the Watercooled cases thread for examples.
TUBING
Either 7/16th or 1/2 inch tubing such as Masterkleer or Tygon are best.

Also, depending on your case it will look neater to house any radiator internally, either at base or use up 2 x 5.25" bays. The Swiftech Apex kit uses a radbox solution for mounting the rad off back so if you want to mount it externally the only other options are to have it mounted on top of the case or build yourself a separate 'radbox' where you can put the rad/pump.

For example, my custom system
AquaXtreme MP-05 + MP-1 PA120.2 Laing D5 Vario + DD Bay Res 1/2 Tygon
cost was roughly £ 250-280, so not much more than kit.
These are all housed internally in a Lian-Li V2000+ which is a full tower case
so not really a problem. If you have a midi-size case then you might need to house rad externally.

Hopefully some other w/c gurus can suggest other alternatives that you can consider.
:)
 
Hehe :( a lot to digest for a water cooling noobie. However :) i will see. Im not quite sure of a time frame on this just yet, Was just wanting to see what the cost is gonna be. Seems like putting aside £350 for the WHOLE water cooling system (to be totaly safe) wouldnt go amiss :) thank you.

the case im getting is a Cheiftec Dragon

piccie

http://www.imagehosted.co.uk/imageupload/users/pegasus1/Original1 (Medium).jpg

i think i could find somewhere in there to house a Rad.

was thinking, move the harddrive rack. down to bottom right of the case. and where the rack is atm make that whole area of the case housing for a radiator, bit of dremel work and what not :)

Anyway :) thank you.
 
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