Help for Adiquite Water Cooling for my system

[Fully]

Hey all,

I'm looking at water cooling my new system.

I'm new to the water cooling world, all my previous builds have been air cooled.

What I want to water cool is my CPU, M/B, Ram and gfx card. (system in my signature).

I was looking at the EK blocks, but not too sure on how to go about pumps, reservoirs and radiators.

So any point in the right direction would be great thanks.

Fully

[Zka17]

Wow, man, that case rocks! Thermaltake Spedo is one of my favorite dreams...

In designing a water cooling loop the most important question is how much heat you want to remove? The produced heat will depend on how you are using your system. At stock speeds your system should have pretty moderate heat production, but if you start overclocking both your cpu and vga that will change for sure!

I suppose that you want to go with a fully custom water cooling setup, since I don't know if there are kits to cover all those components you want to cool (is not meaning that they don't exist). You have to decide your priority: do you want max cooling performance or you want silence - although water cooled setups supposed to be more quiet then their air cooled counterparts, but don't forget that you will use fans on the radiators! And fans can be loud... specially those with high speed and high static pressure.

As I see that case, you could go very easily with two dual 120 mm radiators - one on the top and one one the back. However you do have to do your measurements... You could use a single or dual loop as well. Whatever pump you will choose, get two of them - if you will have a single loop (will be more restrictive), put them inline; with dual loop is obvious why... With the EK water blocks you can not go wrong - just check if they have models matching your specific components. About reservoirs: it's up to you! You want a bay mounted one or you want to put it inside the case?

So, a lot of things to decide for you... Also, remember that a full custom loop may go pretty expensive!

[Fully]

Thanks for the reply Zka17, Well with the case being nice and spacious and having good cable management, having a M-Atx board leaves lots of room to play with water cooling.

The EK do Blocks for all my parts so that part I guessed would be easy. But as you mentioned I would be looking at probably building a fully custom water cooling system. As for noise that doesn't usually bother me at all, as being use to lots of computers with lots of air cooling around me.

As for the radiator set up I think there would be enough space for 2x dual 120, the dual pump im guessing with keep the flow better. I will be looking at overclocking as well. Is it better to go with all the same company? do other brand components have conflicts?

The reservoir I liked the look of the tube types in the case though may go with a bay type for more space. as for the becoming costly, that doesn't other me too much. I need this to last me and be running on top form for work and play.

[WHO_FARTED?]

most parts are usually compatible with others as long as you use the same size tube. Make sure you do a lil home wpork on your planning and routing. Your cpu and gpu produce the most heat, since your doing dual loops, i wouldn't put them on one together.

On the flipside and not to burst your bubble but the motherboard blocks and ram blocks won't make a huge difference, if anything they add more risk. but if you do everything right and test your loops beforehand you'll be fine. And doing just a cpu -> gpu loop with dual rads and a res, you'll be fine and able to overclock to whatever you want. but these are just ideas...

[Zka17]

That's true: the mobo and ram blocks won't make a huge difference - specially in that case... (in cases with bad airflow would be more considerable difference). In any way, they won't be bad either...

"most parts are usually compatible with others as long as you use the same size tube" - and fittings!!! Don't forget those little things...

[Granger]

I don't know enough about the blocks on the mobo to say, but I know you can forget the ram blocks, they are less efficient than the little bridges with 2 fans on, and they restrict the water flow quite a bit.

[Fully]

I know its been a long time since this post had gone anywhere but hopefully your still around for some help .

I just moved so water cooling had to be put on hold.

so here is my shopping list so far taking in consideration that i not going to watercool the ram, and may consider motherboard at a later date:
EK-LGA115x TRUE Backplate
EK-Supremacy - Acetal + Nickel
EK-FC680 GTX+ - Acetal + Nickel
EK-FC680 GTX Backplate - Black CSQ
EK-RES X3 400
2x Laing DDC-3.2TP PWM 12V DC Pump (MCP 35X w/o custom top) <- not sure on pump
2x EK-CoolStream RAD XTX (240)
EK-RES X3 400

coming to a lovely € 575.54

ouch, haha so if anyone can advice to save a few pennies that would be great, as thats not including fans/fittings/tubes.

[Mankz]

So you are going to be running dual loops?

[Zka17]

2x 240mm rads for the CPU and 2x GTX680s seems a little bit short for me... if you're going to OC the graphics cards (if not why WC'ing them?), they may need more radfiator surface...

[Fully]

was gonna run a dual loop, also I only have 1 gtx680 which yeah i was planning to overclock. thought that may have been enough. failing that do you think that a 1x360 rad, 1x240rad would be better?