Watercooling

[johnbarny]

I will be back in UK next week so I will be putting together my pc, only thing I havnt got at the moment is a cooling system, I was looking at H100 but due to amount of issues I have heard with them I have decided not to. I am now looking into a custom waterloop I was taking a look at the packages you can get but thought I would ask here first for some advice, my build is in my signature and I am looking to spent upto £200 as it will only be used to cool CPU, I may do some overclocking at somepoint but main reason for water is I dont want a giant block in middle of PC.

Thanks,
Barny

 

[Avenged7Fold]

If your spending £200 i would only do the CPU and then decide later if you want to expand your loop. I have your case with a custom loop and a all in one loop inside it and you can put a 120mm rad at the back, 240mm or a 280mm at the top and a 200mm at the front of the case if you move your 3.5" bays elsewhere in your case.

I have a 240mm mounted because there is a better range of 120mm fans than 140mm. My old MOBO had its ram right at the top and if i had a 280mm rad, it would have gone in the way of the RAM clips. I also have a 120mm rad at the back of the case and it is a really tight fit.

The max thickness of radiator + fan you can have at the top of the case before it goes over the motherboard is about 72mm. So if you use a 25mm fan that leaves you a max thickness of 47mm for the radiator, i know this because i am actually hitting this measurement spot on with EK's Coolstream RAD XT. Any thicker rad and you gotta mount it on the outside of the case.

What I essentially did when i started water cooling was to get the parts of this water cooling set:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-172-EK&groupid=962&catid=1532&subcat=

But swapped out the XTX Radiator for the thinner XT so it would fit in the 650D case, and also swapped out the supreme block for the super awesome Supremacy block. You might want to instead get a 200mm rad instead of the 240mm to leave you a bit more space around the motherboard or get a higher power pump (even though EK's 4.0 is good enough for a couple of HF blocks)

here is a picture of my 650D, you cant see the radiators at the top and back but the fans attached to them are visible and you can see how tight space is.