Where to put radiator

TheKnat

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I'm just starting to look at water cooling my computer, because the fans are getting on my nerves now. One thing I can't quite figure out though is where to put the radiator on the Eclipse-62.

I was looking at THIS kit as it comes with a mounting bracket to go outside your computer, but I think I would really like to assemble the parts myself.

If I went for a radiator like THIS ONE where can I put it ? Can I still just drill some holes and mount it to the back of my case ? Anyone whose water cooled in this case before (I'm sure there are loads of you) could you give me a bit of a pointer ?
 
Heres what I did and it works well.

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Mounted the pump at the side of the Akasa Eclipse it was a perfect fit.Also the wheel holes lined up perfectly with the pump holes so I just used a longer screw to bolt the pump to the case....No drilling.

The res is mounted on the side of the CD rom bays high up ...again a great fit.

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Cut out the honeycomb at the bottom for one tube and secured with rubber washer for a nice fit and to protect the tubing.

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Also I just cut the PCI slot away keeping the screw hole in place just in case i need to install a card.

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Is that using one of the swiftech kits with the raditor mounting adapater ? It does look like a good setup but I was wondering if I would get better performance out of a self built setup
 
You may but I have overclocked many chips with this kit and it have always cooled the chips fine with the chips topping out due to speed not temps.

Its a very very good KIT and 99% of this forum would agree with me.
 
I mounted mine in the roof, but it did require mutilating the top hard drive cages slots.

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If your fans are annoying you, that's not going to be that much better. Very, very few of these water-cooling kits are really any quieter than an existing system, What they deliver is much better cooling for the same noise.

If you really want quiet, then look at the Zalman Reserator or Preytek Serenity units as those actually deliver silent cooling for the CPU, although you may not be able to get the extremely low temperatures with such a big overclock.
 
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17623687&highlight=newbies+journey+watercooling
I mounted it on the top just to show it could be done in a old case,
but best solution is outside the case as the RAD is the most likely to spring a leak due to the thin tubing in the grill so in case of a accidental knock your pc wont be toast :p

I was tempted by a 2 1u system and have 2 rads in different places in the loop since gfx cards are getting hotter and hotter perhaps it would be good to have a RAD In between, altho it would mean a more powerful pump
 
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Well the kit comes with an external rad kit so it will be proberly going on the back of the case.

I'm hoping this will quite the case down, as most the noise comes from the case fans. It looks like the MB is telling them to run at full speed for some reason.
 
Chronictank said:
I was tempted by a 2 1u system and have 2 rads in different places in the loop since gfx cards are getting hotter and hotter perhaps it would be good to have a RAD In between, altho it would mean a more powerful pump
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I was also thinking about water cooling my gfx cards but reading around, people were saying to use a second loop instead of adding it to the CPU one. I take it this means to basically buy a second kit and install it alongside the other one ?
 
TheKnat said:
I was also thinking about water cooling my gfx cards but reading around, people were saying to use a second loop instead of adding it to the CPU one. I take it this means to basically buy a second kit and install it alongside the other one ?
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i was wondering about this second loop buisness too
 
Rick_Barnes said:
real watercooling men cool with a 120.3, then even a single 120mm running at 5v is enough
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real watercooling men use fans @ 12v for top performance rather than noise and use good fans

to be fair
 
I think I'll probably end up going for a mixture of performance and speed. I don't mind some noise, but it sounds like a wind tunnel at the moment. But if it cools it better than the air cooler I currently have, then I'll have more of a chance to OC it
 
I'm in the same situation the OP, I want to put water cooling in my Eclipse 62 and I am looking at the same Kit as the op. But I really want the rad in the roof!

-Matt
 
stinka said:
i was wondering about this second loop buisness too
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dual loops are cool (I would say that ;)) but I would say only for well experienced builders and still a right pain in the arse.. a 120.3 loop would probably perform better also.
 
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