What thickness rad ?

paulstung · 25 Mar 2013 at 22:05

I'm adding a 7950 to my loop, in the next couple of days. And need some advice on what size rad to use. I already have a monsta 240 in push pull, for my cpu, but am going to add another. So which would be better.A 30cm thick 360mm, or a, 45cm thick 240mm . The monsta is up front, and the 2nd is going up top.

My options are either the NexXxos ST30 triple, or the NexXxos XT45 dual.

Nickolp1974 · 25 Mar 2013 at 23:06

I'd go for the 45mm, this would allow you to run lower fan speeds, what case do you have?

paulstung · 26 Mar 2013 at 05:54

It's the phantom 630 mate. I will have to measure up later, to see if there is enough room for push. I have quite a bad case of ocd, so with my monsta up front in push pull, the top rad will have to be at least in push to keep it looking symmetrical. I haven't got it to the point of counting switches and things, it's more visual, everything has it's place, and is something is out of place it drives me crazy.

I have been reading loads of reviews and have decided on the ST30 360. You might ask why, when I came here for advice. And there is nothing worse than someone ignoring advice that has been asked for. well it's on the back of 1 main review, from MARTINSLIQUIDLAB.ORG. From his intense testing, at lower speeds the ST30 beets the thicker XT45 and the UT60. He has got a lot of interesting info, and his testing method is one of the best I've seen.

OLDPHART · 26 Mar 2013 at 06:51

Nickolp1974 said:
I'd go for the 45mm, this would allow you to run lower fan speeds, what case do you have?

Black ICE Radiator GT STEALTH 560 is about 32mm and you can use low or high rpm fans it depends on the design.

My Black ICE Radiator GT STEALTH 560 low 900rpm fans, this morning heating on ambient 21'c - i7 920:4.2ghz CPU cores idle - 32.29.29.28'cc / GPU - 28.5'C.