Watercooling 2 x 7970 and SB-E

Firstly, as others have said, a single D5 is easily enough
That res is a great one if you're tight on space.

I completely agree with cammy, a TJ07 would be much much better.

Don't bother with the RS, the EX is a better rad and is the same thickness.

TBH, it'll be better to get something huge like a 560mm SR-1 radiator and hang it off the back with fans in push and pull. That would very easily cool what you want to cool and it's an easy job
 
Paddy McGinty said:
Theres a place you can get a tj07 from with a modded roof so u can fit a triple rad up there instead of a double,the place is called www.readtherulesanddontmentioncompetitors.co.uk

personally i wouldnt bother with a tj 07 i would go for caselabs m8
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You can't mention the names of other etailors on this forum mate...I would edit it out before a mod sees it :)

please dont quote people who have mentioned a competitor.
use the RTM instead - rjk
 
Right. Sorry I've been busy with other stuff to follow this up.

So I'm now avoiding the submerged pump, though I will probably get a reservoir with prebuilt mount for a pump, not necessarily this but eg.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-066-AC&groupid=962&catid=2133&subcat=2134

Taking into consideration the wonderful suggestions and since I don't mind it looking ugly -> it's not for display and will be tucked away under my desk.

A custom water loop is what I have on a P280 case

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illegible - (pink pillar) are custom mounts to put the radiator 50mm above the roof of the case. (brown) temp sensors

Feel free to criticize ... because it is my first water loop after all. I'm eager to get the parts in so once I feel the design is good I will update with a list of water cooling components for advice and discussion.
 
1. Whats the ambient temp of the place it will be located.
2. You say 24/7, but whats the expected 24/7 rig? Is it mainly idle/browsing with a bit of heavy gaming or something more strenuous?
 
Biffa said:
1. Whats the ambient temp of the place it will be located.
2. You say 24/7, but whats the expected 24/7 rig? Is it mainly idle/browsing with a bit of heavy gaming or something more strenuous?
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Just measured temperature, approximately 24/25 degrees Celsius on table. Placed thermometer below table, away from my current P180 and temp reads approximately 22/23 degrees Celsius

Not much gaming / maybe 3/4 hours a week (5 hours tops - probably slightly more on Diablo 3 when it's released) - But OC on CPU and both GPU's.

24/7 - maybe exaggerated :D - a normal workday for me is 8am - 8pm. May leave computer on sometimes to continue number crunch overnight.

Sometimes, mostly when gaming eyefinity will be engaged - complete resolution of 3600 x 1900, most of the time thrid monitor will be attached to Mac mini so resolution of 2400 x 1900 for this build.

Would like to run code on GPU via OpenCL. -> CPU, some pretty intensive simulations / image processing / computer vision tasks. I expect to use OpenMP, all 12 threads may be running simultaneously.

Edit: Also not much difference in cost to 560 Radiator (4 x 140), overkill? or will it make an impact?
 
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By number crunching overnight do you mean Seti/Folding type stuff? In which case I'd advocate cramming as much 120mm radiator space as you can, especially if you are going to be crunching on gpu and cpu at the same time.

Check out my weebeastie thread, 1 x 360, 1 x 240 and 1 x 120 with a 970X and 3 GTX470's and it needs the fans running 100% to keep cool.
 
Biffa said:
By number crunching overnight do you mean Seti/Folding type stuff? In which case I'd advocate cramming as much 120mm radiator space as you can, especially if you are going to be crunching on gpu and cpu at the same time.

Check out my weebeastie thread, 1 x 360, 1 x 240 and 1 x 120 with a 970X and 3 GTX470's and it needs the fans running 100% to keep cool.
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cheers Biffa will have a look.
 
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