Will this water cooling setup work ok?

Freddie1980 · 22 May 2012 at 17:51

Hi could some take a look at this proposed water cooling setup I'm building. So far I've fitted a the dual rad, reservoir and the pump but to increase cooling capacitiy I'm looking to add some more rads to the build. By the end it will end up looking like this?

(Not to scale)

I'll be running this off a Laing 10W DDC-Pump 12V with an alphacool clear top, will that be enough power to run this setup?

This is about as far I've got.

Sorry if sound obvious but I'll be overclocking......

Avathar77 · 22 May 2012 at 18:00

240 & 140 alone would be enough!
I can see another fan placement on the top of the case? if so why dont you add another 240 or 280 RAD instead of the 120 & 140 RADs?

Also you could go for RES->PUMP->GPU->CPU->Top RAD->Bottom RAD->RES
that will make a much neater loop IMO.
And before you say "GPU before CPU" in a question, let me tell you that it doesn't matter!

Freddie1980 · 22 May 2012 at 18:49

Thanks for the feed back!

I was going to put a 280 rad in the top but this is a mid tower case not a full tower case and after using my old socket 775 motherboard as a rough guide there wouldn't be enough room for a 280 rad as it would bear over the CPU socket but I could get away with a single 140.

Freddie1980 · 22 May 2012 at 19:12

I hope I read your post right but is this what you mean?

For some reason I forgot about the ports on my res and I had the final part of loop going to the fill cap on top of the res this time around I've designed so it goes into the barb at the bottom.

Avathar77 · 22 May 2012 at 19:32

Yep that is what I meant

What case do you have?

Since you have the 10W DDC it will have to do

but 18W DDC with an aftermarket top or a D5 would be morethan enough for sure.

Personally, if I didn't have space for a 280/240 rad on the top side of the case I would go for the 120mm RAD in the rear rather than 140 on top(it just looks better IMO)

Freddie1980 · 22 May 2012 at 19:34

I have a Lian Li PC-P50, it's a good case and has pretty much everything you could want from a mid tower case. Cable management is a bit of an issue if your PSU isn't modular but it's well made.

Avathar77 · 22 May 2012 at 19:38

Aha! I thought it might be a Lian Li!

Turn the pump 90 degrees so that the outlet is facing the PSU side(less use of angled adapters

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