Watercooling advice Please

smerriman · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:04

A bit of advice please

I am thinking of water cooling my pc, at the moment I have an i7930 but I will perhaps upgrade to Haswell.

At the moment I only intend water cooling the CPU but may in the future add the GPU.

The case I intend to use is the cosmos 2, (I know not many people like it and not the best water cooling case but I like it).

I thought about using RayStorm D5 EX360 WaterCooling Kit, I intend swapping fans for Gentle typhoon AP 14.

Would it be overkill to add an RX240 Dual Radiator in the bottom?

Many thanks
Steve

OptimaLnrg · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:06

Yes it would be overkill. No need for it unless you add gpu(s)

andybird123 · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:10

the XSPC fans will also be fine and quiet with a 360 rad on a CPU only loop, the money saved can go towards the 240 rad for when you add the GPU

I personally would always have more rad than expensive fans as you will get far more benefit from it

smerriman · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:34

Thanks, I thought it might be a bit over the top but with the 930 overclocked to 3.9 I wondered with a bit more cooling I might get a bit more out of it.

Many thanks
Steve

eddyr · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:35

Aye more/better rad, it then gives you the option of better fans down the line on more rad estate if you so wanted, but after a quiet pc the idea might turn your stomach