WC Advice
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Could realld do with a bit more info than that really for speccing water cooling. Its not a case of "you have this so must get this". What do you want it for? Im guessing best cooling performance from your spec, rather than the quietest it can be? And what case are you doing this in? That has a massive impact on what you'll be buying as you need to make sure everything is going to fit. And what sort of budget you looking at? your probably going to be spending around £200 on blocks alone for a machine of that spec, before adding pumps/rads/fans etc.
You happy with modding your case a bit yourself too? Watercooling often needs the case to be modded slightly to get everything to fit right.
Answer those and we'll have a better idea of what to suggest for you
Thanks -
The case is an Alienware, so large and plenty of room. I'm removing the stock sealed watercooling unit as it's not big enough for the job. The requirement isn't so much for quiet running, but for cooling ability. It's for gaming/flight sim.
Modding the cas also isn't a problem
Budget isn't too much of an issue either, obviously want to keep this within reason though!
To be honest, it doesn't need to cool the 295s yet, as they're not in there. The system has twin ATIs. But am looking at adding 295s in the near future with the view of watercooling them, so need the setup to be big enough to handle these when added.
What Alienware PC is it? An Area 51? If so I think that comes with a H50 anyway, or a system thats basically the same so not much point going for that if your looking at adding graphics cards in to it as well. But as neo-omega said, make sure your board can support SLI as well as crossfire (think it should but best to make sure), wouldnt be fun buying those 2 295's to find out they wont both work in there!!
As he said as well, dual loops may be a good idea. Will cost a bit more and be a little more complicated, but offer much better cooling performance. Those 295's will be putting out a lot of heat so maybe best to keep them in they're own loop for better cooling. Would also mean you could get your CPU/NB loop set up now, and then just add another loop for the cards when you get them, rather than modifying the current loop.
EDIT: is it this case?
It's extremely similar to this case:
The current system is a sealed unit like the h50, but is mounted under the HDDs, unlike the image above.
Dual loops seem the way to go. The mobo is a Gigabyte EX58. I've seen this block for the mobo, but it lists it as an X58 block, however, it looks the same as the EX58 standard heatsink (size and shape wise):
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-045-EK&groupid=962&catid=1521&subcat=1537
There is a large amount of room under the HDDs (where the current system is, or rather, was), and also a fair amount of room between the HDDs and mobo - agood spot for reservoir?