advise on water setup

[airborne_mtrs]

I am wanting to go to water cooling for the first time and am looking for advise on what products I should get.
I would like to cool my CPU AMD 3800, 2 x 7800 GTX's, and my NF4 chipset. Is there a pump that is strong enough to cool all of those items and what water blocks are the best.

Thanks!


My rig:
AMD X2 3800+
eVGA 7800 GTX SLI
2gb Mushkin PC 4000
DFI Lan Party UT SLI

 

[seniorpaul]

Since we have very similar rigs, i'll throw my .02 out. Because of the placement of the Chipset (basically under your graphics cards), it's difficult to kind a waterblock that will fit. I managed to purchase a used one that is made by EK. There have been a couple of people commenting on them in the past couple of weeks (Here is mine) . The thing is, it's made in Slovenia (sp?), so some effort has to be made to find one.

As for the rest, I use DangerDen Maze4 GPU blocks. In order to cool both your cards, your going to need to use the LowProfile ones (as theres not that much room between them). And for the CPU, I'm using the Swiftech Storm. Swiftech just released a new CPU block, the Apogee, but the reviews have been mixed, so your going to have to do some research there. I'm currently using a D5 pump from DangerDen (Swiftech sells the exact same pump with their name on it), and it seems to be performing just fine.

Just to keep things civil, there is also the option of going with a small bore setup (aquacomputer, etc...), but i'll step aside and let someone else comment on those (and i assure you, they will )

 

[airborne_mtrs]

seniorpaul,

Thank you for your detailed post it was very helpful!

 

[Top Nurse]

Best as in what? Please be more specific

 

[airborne_mtrs]

Best as in what? Please be more specific

Best as in what will work together the best.