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It is easy to go under air cooling temps. Even 20 degree C under air temperatures is easy. I do not have anything against such cooling system if it can work under full load for hours. 70 to 80 degree GPU temps are fine for GPU if they do not keep crawling up over time. I have seen to many times...

This is true for Bitspower reservoirs but this one has middle part for illumination purposes only. As he said he have had some rest air issues in system and removing fine bubbles from system takes time. Bleeding air from radiators mounted horizontally can be pain in the lower back. Also...

Looking forward to see it :)

What he said. Some makers of pure silver water blocks give warnings not to use nickel parts in same loop. Not as bad case of galvanic corrosion as what happens to alu+copper situation. Even all nickel plated products are not that cool on their own when used with distilled water. Already...

1. two 240 (except monster maybe) are not enough 2. external radiator option is great option IMO. Cold air advantage plus less space limitations. 3. In some cases two loops can be excellent but mostly way to costly and complicated especially while not big of a advantage in most of the loops. 4...

Bitspower has nice locking fittings for 12mm tubing. Primoschill as well. EK has Bitspower alike fittings (non locking two rubber ring once) for both 12 and 16mm. EK has 16mm tubing as well. Well I would love to see Bitspower 16mm version of locking fittings. Would love to make all hard tubing...

One 360 can not cool CPU and two GPU. Period. Difference between one or two GPU in system is huge. Cooling CPU is easy. Cooling CPU and one GPU is easy. Cooling two GPU and one CPU starts all new level. Up to now I see that minimum radiator setup to cool it was 360 + 240 or + 2x 120. Or two...

I tend to be satisfied with Herbie Clip. Tighten proper ofc.

Use to have FC on my 6970 CF. Now I have CSQ 7970 on my CF GHz edition cards. I have triple slot dual card serial bridge and it rocks. With that connection in between my two cards are one part. Way easier to mount and cards do not hang in the slots. GPU's are cool to. Actually way cooler then my...

Spyderco Delica IV ZDP-189. I got same. In same color. Got it from my Wife. Monster 240. I got same. D5 got it to. EK water block for GPU I got 4!!??? Damn. So many same things :) Good choices all way arround. BTW your Monster 240 is doing great job. In my system it has [H]ard task. It has...

Like I have said order does not matter for the msot part. Just what I prefer. BTW pump dumps 18-24 watts heat in water before hitting your water blocks :P There for res> pump> rad >/coolest water/> blocks >res is better LOL :D It simply does not matter. Difference is mostly as big as...

GPU is priority OFC but next item on a list is VRM actually. Mosfets and other semiconductors in VRM circut. That is a part right from the GPU and behind memory. Well if GPU is drawing like XX amount of Ampers VRM will have same amount of Ampers flowing true it as well. Hence VRM semiconductors...

Main reason why order of the parts in the loop does not make much difference when tested for extended periods. If reservoir is at higher point then pump and it directly gravity feed a pump other components can be in any order and once system reaches it's balance it will be at same temperature as...

You are welcome. Your loop does not sound t that complicated and adding one more component should not be big issue for a D5. Now disclaimer :) I do not know what components are you using and I have no picture or video of your loop to be able to spot obvious errors so all I say I do say...

At this moment I do have MCP 655 and two DCC's. I do have XSPC Restop and double bay single and double pump reservoirs from XSPC and Alphacool plexi top. DCC stock top is just there to keep a impeller from falling out during the transsportation. If you want any performance out of it, you will...

Why not 7970GHz CF? That is cheaper and faster then R9 290X. Sure I am subjective because I have done it :)

7970GHz CF was my choice. Quite a bang for a buck. Single R9 290X is slower and costs more(comes with less free games to). I was not ready to pay more then double just to have performance I can not use. I am at 1600p (Dell 3008WFP 30") and you can not see difference between 7970GHz CF and R9...

Got two 7970GHz (Club3D TX2 '13 edition) for 498 Euro and got with each 3 games free. Hence 498 Euro and 6 games. Hard to beat that price. 1100 MHz GPU and 6GHz memory stock. Not great cooler and really no back bone. PCB is very flimsy. 7970GHz CF is faster then 7990. Plus more games with it...

7970GHz CF should be faster. Anyways CF does not scale that well after two cards. I went from 6970 CF to 7970GHz CF and enjoy it big time. Well I am at 1600p (30" Dell). With new setup every game can be set up to max details/eye candy.

D5 is great. Even with future upgrades you can use it. There is been people running 5 radiators and 3 waterblocks with single D5 (Linus tech tips on youtube and even in such stupid loop it did good job). Well here is link skipp to like 35:30 to see bleeding action...

I have done upgrade from 6970 CF to 7970GHz CF. I am very satisfied. It is same upgrade so you might be satisfied to. Well if you find better deal on 7970GHz go for it as I have done. Same card as R9 280X. Already for longer time I miss GPU horsepower. I have had two water cooled 6970's to...

How about this one? http://www.alphacool.com/product_info.php/info/p1031_Alphacool-NexXxoS-Monsta-480.html

Seams like a nice cooler on it. Sick of stock coolers making noise once you push it. Thats why main rig uses WC on GPU to. Wifes rig is on other hand getting even older :(

Well I have Dell 3008 and two watercooled 6970. This would be nice upgrade. This days my setup is already choaking :( MD

Hi, I think you should go with two 480's. Here is why. I have only two 6970 and I7 2600 @ 5 GHz. Hence almost twice less heat introduced into my system. I have tried few setups and ended up with two 240 rads and one 120 rad cooling my PC. 240's are TFC Xchanger rads and 120 is Phobia...

Hi, There was a time when CPU heat output was lower and standard CPU water blocks design's were less restrictive than today. Even pumps were different. Pumps did not have had good head pressure as they do now days. Also they use to fail much more than today. Back in those days people...

@ FaRKle0079 Every radiator has heat capacity rating though mostly they do not come with data sheet. Koolance 400 watt rating was example of bad marketing. I though that was clear, I have said You can't always trust heat rating and I gave example Koolance. Sometimes you can find graphs...

Hi, USMCGrunt You are welcome. I place reservoir up high for few reasons. It is easier to trap air in system. You always go reservoir > pump and if pump is lower you help a bit with a drop (not that much difference but I take what I can get). With pump at low you gain on distance between a...

Hi, I have Apogee XT and I went for other back plate and mounting hardware. Original threads stripped in normal use. I went for Acetal + Nickel version of EK water block. Not that acrylic and plexi blocks are bad but I do not trust them any more. I would not go with Swiftech radiators. They...

Hi, Every radiator has heat power dissipation rating. This rating is many cases over rated due fact that for such heat dissipation one would need have to high water flow and to much (to loud) air flow.(Koolance claims 400 watt heat dissipation for 120 rad with 44 millimeter thickness and brass...

Hi, I would go with EVGA GeForce GTX 580 3072MB Hydro Copper 2. It comes with water block that works for sure (Swifttech WB) with it and it has warranty. http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=03G-P3-1591-AR&family=GeForce%20500%20Series%20Family&sw= Regarding parts they are all good...

Tbh I do not dare to say it but it seams I got it pretty stable now. Not quite sure was it 10.2 that fixed it because I have changed next to 10.2 also few other things. I have installed new drivers for my Keyboard Logitech G19 (screen on keyboard was tripping a lot) new drivers for Razor...

Well I haven't played enough to be sure is it gone or not. I have 5870 from day they became avaible here in Netherlands. Always used it with Ati drivers although it is a ASUS Over Voltage uber card. Stock speed. Built in completely new system made from Asus P6T Deluxe Rev.2 , water cooled...

hottubjohn we are far from flame war level on this forum. That’s so 2001 :) Be constructive or be ignored. Point been it was working 100% good. Boom next thing you know it crashes your system. So month ago I would say I do not have this problem. I do have it now. So yes if you get now any of...

Maybe 1KW? Though 750Watt should be more then enough. BTW I use 750 watt as well. MD

What makes it really irritant for me is a fact that I can’t provoke it. If I run something to burn GPU or CPU or Memory or all together system is not going to crash. On other hand it is going to crash whenever it feels like it. Like I’ve mentioned mostly happens in games, then again on my main...

Nice touch, between all new color crashes finally got one gray screen again. MD

For me Steam ain't a problem for me. You can turn it off. Dirth2 is a problem though. I do not want to install utility for windows gaming so there is no normal save game in game. So I have played it once and never again. Tbh it doesn't do much for me either. MD

I water cool CPU only, I OC CPU only. Memory is set manually to a proper speed. I have an Asus 5870 with stock cooling running stock speeds. My CPU get’s up to 50 deg. C when gaming and graphic card goes up to 62 deg. C. If I switch to desktop with game in background graphic card is...

Installed Asus Smart Dr. and it still crashes. Now like screen first freezes then black screen of death. Seams taht it can crash on 1000 different ways. I want my money and my sanity back Ati. To RMA it a then again have card that will work good one month and same shit all over? I would rather...