Watercooling for GFX and Northbridge

[Stan_Lite]

I asked for help in the general hardware section about building a benching rig but didn't find much help regarding watercooling.

My plan so far is to have it set up on a table/desk without a case as I intend benching various CPUs and different RAM. Mounting it this way will allow easy access and will also help with cooling as I can point my desk fan directly at it.

At present I am looking at: DFI X-fire mobo, with X1900 X-fire + X1900 XTX which will be watercooled along with the northbridge and Vapochill Lightspeed for the CPUs.
I have 2Gb Mushkin redline and 1Gb Corsair XMS3500LL for testing with either high bandwidth or tight timings.

What I would like you guys to help with is the watercooling for the gfx cards and the northbridge.
I presume I would be better with blocks which cover the gfx RAM as well as the GPU?

Could someone please suggest good quality components (from OcUK - I would rather deal with them) to do the job? Don't worry too much about the cost as this is going to be a bloody expensive system anyway.

It was suggested in GH that I should watercool the RAM, HDD (37Gb Raptor) and Mosfet as well but I wondered if this would be really necessary due to the fact that this will all be in the open with a 14" deskfan about 6 inches from it?

Also, can anyone suggest suitable benching software to cover as many aspects as possible.
I know some stuff but if someone could supply a list of useful software (preferably free but not necessary), I would be very grateful.

Thank you for your time.

Stan

 

[***F1ZZY***]

Blimey, 60,000 posts nearly

TBH if you are benching then focus cooling on CPU and GPU(s).

A cold HDD will not give you more score.

Waste of time water cooling northbridge too.

I guess you are not bothered about noise too much as rig only for benchies.

I would get the swiftech copper aircooled NB and look at GPU pelt cooling via water and just get some ram sinks.

All that with a desk fan would do youo proud and compliment an A64 on phase nicely.

 

[welshtom]

you wont get those components from overclockers. They dont stock the high end watercooling you need.

Tom

 

[daven1986]

i left a post regarding watercooling in your other thread:

for waterblocks, if you are benching and you want the NB cooled you might want to go for 2 loops, one for both graphics cards with a thermochill PA120.2 rad, and 1 loop for everything else, you can WC the ram, NB, mosfets HDDs and run them all off one lowish spec pump.

for the gfx loop you'd be better off using a liang DCC ultra pump (maybe get the one with the reservoir for ease of use) and for the other loop just any average pump will be fine. try and use 1/2" barbs for the gfx loop with 7/16" masterkleer tubing, and for the other loop 3/8" tubing will be fine.

as for the gfx blocks danger den ati block or alphacool nexXxos are both good and cover the ram.

for the other loop i'd use either koolance ram coolers (or another one i can't remember right now), whatever mosfet coolers you need and a low pressure drop chipset block. HDDs can be cooled with a silentstar HDD cooler.

daven