Watercooling Help

[fonetech]

I am looking to do 2 seperate water cooling loops within my system.

1 for CPU & Northbridge
1 for Graphics

Heres my system

Intel Core i5 750
MSI P55-GD65 LGA1156 Motherboard
4GB Kingston Hyper X 1333Mhz DDR3 Ram (2 x 2GB)
896mb ASUS ENGTX260 TOP Graphics Card
Coolermaster HAF 932 Case

I'm looking for help on which radiators, pumps and blocks to use

 

[Geckovich]

Ok, I'm not sure what blocks fit the i5 socket, last I heard only the ek supreme did. With regards to pumps look for DDC or D5s.

No northbridge for you though, your mobo doesn't have one.

What I'd suggest is a single loop, no doubt someone will come along to tell me I'm wrong though. I have my WC to cut back on noise, not extreme temps. Even so, I have a q6600, x38 chip and gtx280 in one loop on an XSPC rs360 rad running fine. It's even capable of running passive when I'm idling at desktop - though admittedly the CPU reaches the mid 40's when doing so.

Multiple loops would just overcomplecate things and add additional cost where it isn't needed.

 

[fonetech]

Thanks m8.

I think i'll go with a single system but can anyone advise if i should get a 120.3 or 120.2 radiator for the cpu, memory and graphics card which i'm looking to water cool

Also does the southbridge need water cooling or is that fine ?

 

[Bonjour]

I used to cool CPU -> GPU -> NB with a single 120 Rad and it worked fine, so i would have thought you'd be OK with a 120.2.

Southbridge shouldn't need any cooling.

 

[Geckovich]

Just get the biggest rad that your case can confortably handle. There's really no point in water cooling the memory though.