Watercooling recommendations?

monkeypants · 22 May 2006 at 18:55

I've got a project coming up, a water-cooled dual P3 (S370) machine.

I need recommendations on:

CPU waterblocks, quiet but powerful pumps, 120.1 radiators and GeForce 4 waterblocks.

There will be very little airflow in the box so should I get blocks for the HDDs?

Finally the PSU, I don't want a fan in there so is there anyway I can water cool this? It'll be without case just so you know.

monkeypants · 22 May 2006 at 19:19

Cool, I'm not looking to spend a lot on this, we're talking small child's pocket money...

monkeypants · 22 May 2006 at 19:43

gr1mey said:
and you want CPU blocks, High quality pumps, a Watercooled PSU, and possibly HDD blocks?

errr, unless ** parents are millionaires....

I meant for each component. :rolleyes:

monkeypants · 22 May 2006 at 21:59

Weirdos... Used blocks should be about £10 each, rads £15 each, a Maze 3 or something about £7, and a pump about £20-25. That's only £77-82. The system itself will cost me very little, £50-60.

monkeypants · 22 May 2006 at 22:23

daven1986 said:
you will want a 120.2 rad if you are cooling cpu and gpu(s).

daven

Ah-ha, no! I shall be using 2 single 120mm radiators in parallel. Just for the fun of it.

monkeypants · 22 May 2006 at 22:40

I want to know which blocks/rads/pump to get, you know, hear what people think are the best and stuff. Specifically blocks and pump, as the difference between radiators is pretty negligeble

monkeypants · 22 May 2006 at 22:59

jellybeard999 said:
regarding radiators, go series rather than parallel

But parallel means that water goes (no-nonsense version): Pump > Split > Block1/Block2 > Rad1/Rad2 > Join > GPU > Res/fillport > Pump.

jellybeard999 said:
for cheapness :

Eheim 1048 - reliable, fairly low flow and head, but ok for a Swfitech 6002/Maze4 etc

Swiftech 6002 - if you can find one cheap

Res - whatever takes your fancy that doesnt contain aluminium really

GPU - DD Maze4 GPU

Rad - heatercore is probably your cheapest option

hope that helps

I was looking at the Swiftech 600X block, but wanted some more input incase I couldn't find any cheap (I'd like the blocks to match)
I hadn't thought about heatercores, but that's a good idea and I'll look into them.
I was leaning towards a fillport rather than a reservoir to keep the system small (I'm custom making the box out of MDF)
The eheim has 3/8 fittings doesn't it?

monkeypants · 23 May 2006 at 19:38

gr1mey said:
Just for the record - you didnt state you were looking for 2nd hand parts.

kthxbye

¡HAHAHA! I didn't really imagine people would think I wanted new stuff for a P3 system. :rolleyes:

OK folks, I'm looking for stuff that'll be cheap, but will perform reasonably (ie. better than stock air)