Watercooling

caro251 · 24 Aug 2010 at 20:47

I am looking at in the future overclocking and watercooling my system. I was wondering what the price would be to watercool all componants in my pc just a rough estimate and maby a bit of a hint of what i will need as it i am a newbie to watercooling accept the H50-1 corsair.

Thanks

RJC · 24 Aug 2010 at 20:53

I believe you would be looking at £250 ~.

atmax1 · 24 Aug 2010 at 21:09

£250+ depending what you have in your system

your need:
~ 1 - 2 Radiators
~ a pump
~ a Reservoir
~ tubeing
~ fittings
~ fluid
~ cpu waterblock
~ GPU waterblock
~ block for your motherboard if you want to watercool that as well

HW91 · 24 Aug 2010 at 21:13

£200-500 depending on if you go for low quality components or up to top quality components for a CPU + GPU loop

OLDPHART · 24 Aug 2010 at 23:51

I just made the leap to an H2O set up, and l had £250 and it came to £300. Thats just cooling my CPU and GPU, it just depends on how far you want to go and what set up you want.

Monstermunch · 25 Aug 2010 at 00:57

IMO I would say closer to £400 to do it properly...

~ 2x Radiators = £120
~ a pump = £50
~ a Reservoir = £20
~ tubeing = £10
~ fittings = £15
~ fluid = £10
~ cpu waterblock = £40
~ GPU waterblock = £70
~ Motherboard = £70

Pump > Rad > CPU > Rad > Gfx > Mobo > Res

HW91 · 25 Aug 2010 at 13:18

Monstermunch said:
IMO I would say closer to £400 to do it properly...

~ 2x Radiators = £120
~ a pump = £50
~ a Reservoir = £20
~ tubeing = £10
~ fittings = £15
~ fluid = £10
~ cpu waterblock = £40
~ GPU waterblock = £70
~ Motherboard = £70

Pump > Rad > CPU > Rad > Gfx > Mobo > Res

you don't need two rads unless you have a ridiculous build, as in quadruple ATi GPU's or triple GTX 465/470/480's, otherwise you can getaway with a 360 for a single GF100 plus CPU or dual ati cards plus cpu

you should NEVER buy a mobo block

JeffyB · 25 Aug 2010 at 13:33

I agree on the mobo blocks, not worth it, they just dump heat into your loop and create a lot of restriction. You dont need 2 rads for a cpu and gpu loop, a decent 360/480/420 will be plenty. A loop including a gpu block can be done for about £250 but you'll more than likely spend over £300 as you won't buy the cheapest components. My build came in at about £370 and i bought a few items from the members mart, from log in my sig

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