Watercooling virgin
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Manage to set up my rads. my intial plans was to have 480 on front panel and the 360 just above in roof.but due to space i have a big problem.
if i fit the 480 on the front i have to remove the fan and put them on back of the rads but one of rads will be loosing a fan there in no space for both rads with full fan.also the 480 has to fit right next to front panel therefore i am unable to fit the dust filters, also it would mean removing one of usb 3/audio hubs.
Was wondering how much effect would removing one fan on a rad make if you have triple rad and you removed a single fan leaving just two to do the cooling. would this compromise the cooling and by how much?
Zia
if i fit the 480 on the front i have to remove the fan and put them on back of the rads but one of rads will be loosing a fan there in no space for both rads with full fan.also the 480 has to fit right next to front panel therefore i am unable to fit the dust filters, also it would mean removing one of usb 3/audio hubs.
Was wondering how much effect would removing one fan on a rad make if you have triple rad and you removed a single fan leaving just two to do the cooling. would this compromise the cooling and by how much?
Zia
As a recent watercooling virgin, I have a 360 with 3 push and 2 pull, this was intended due to the config I thought I could get into the system. Some people here will say that push pull is sometimes not worth it. I can't tell you how much better the extra fan could be, but I sort of deliberately went with a Spinal Tap 'well this one goes up to 11' logic! In that 3 push 2 pull is better than 2 push 2 pull...
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Looks good, loving the colour scheme
All done
RGB light in the reservoir changes colour depending on water temp
gpu temp in valley
summary
going to water cooling has to be the one of best thing i've done in a long while.
found it pretty nerve wracking at first.Fitting gpu block for first time i was dreading it
.wasn't sure what to get, what bits would work togeather but once you start planning and looking at all the loads of reviews, there is an overwhelming info on the web these days.with a lot of youtubers posting doing build vids,tips, make the process last duanting.
been on air cooling for a good while. while it was good the sound noise from some components left a lot to be desired a lot the new hardware seems a lot harder to keep cool without noise increases, especially when overclocking.
so far on air my max Gpu overclocking of 780 ti classfied was roundabout 1250mhz to 1310mhz and temp where going upto 80*c
On water it idles around 36-40*c and i am able to push the gpu a lot further with 0 noise increase.
The cpu side on air max stable overclock i could achieve was 4.4ghz.bench stable 4.6ghz
on water i was able to run 4.6ghz stable but it seem i do have a pig of a chip which runs hot. currently it take 1.42 volts to stablize it.yet temp are still around 78*c mark.I am glad i broke my watercooling virginity the lack of noise alone was well worth the expense and add bonus with lower all round temp was iceing on the cake.
There still some stuff i need to tweak like replacing the stock lian li case fan on the rads.neater tubing routes
pic of my old system
Zia
RGB light in the reservoir changes colour depending on water temp
gpu temp in valley
summary
going to water cooling has to be the one of best thing i've done in a long while.
found it pretty nerve wracking at first.Fitting gpu block for first time i was dreading it
.wasn't sure what to get, what bits would work togeather but once you start planning and looking at all the loads of reviews, there is an overwhelming info on the web these days.with a lot of youtubers posting doing build vids,tips, make the process last duanting.been on air cooling for a good while. while it was good the sound noise from some components left a lot to be desired a lot the new hardware seems a lot harder to keep cool without noise increases, especially when overclocking.
so far on air my max Gpu overclocking of 780 ti classfied was roundabout 1250mhz to 1310mhz and temp where going upto 80*c
On water it idles around 36-40*c and i am able to push the gpu a lot further with 0 noise increase.
The cpu side on air max stable overclock i could achieve was 4.4ghz.bench stable 4.6ghz
on water i was able to run 4.6ghz stable but it seem i do have a pig of a chip which runs hot. currently it take 1.42 volts to stablize it.yet temp are still around 78*c mark.I am glad i broke my watercooling virginity the lack of noise alone was well worth the expense and add bonus with lower all round temp was iceing on the cake.
There still some stuff i need to tweak like replacing the stock lian li case fan on the rads.neater tubing routes
pic of my old system
Zia
All done
RGB light in the reservoir changes colour depending on water temp
gpu temp in valley
summary
going to water cooling has to be the one of best thing i've done in a long while.
found it pretty nerve wracking at first.Fitting gpu block for first time i was dreading it
been on air cooling for a good while. while it was good the sound noise from some components left a lot to be desired a lot the new hardware seems a lot harder to keep cool without noise increases, especially when overclocking.
so far on air my max Gpu overclocking of 780 ti classfied was roundabout 1250mhz to 1310mhz and temp where going upto 80*c
On water it idles around 36-40*c and i am able to push the gpu a lot further with 0 noise increase.
The cpu side on air max stable overclock i could achieve was 4.4ghz.bench stable 4.6ghz
on water i was able to run 4.6ghz stable but it seem i do have a pig of a chip which runs hot. currently it take 1.42 volts to stablize it.yet temp are still around 78*c mark.I am glad i broke my watercooling virginity the lack of noise alone was well worth the expense and add bonus with lower all round temp was iceing on the cake.
There still some stuff i need to tweak like replacing the stock lian li case fan on the rads.neater tubing routes
pic of my old system
Zia
Love the little stick on thermostat in the old build