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Bored as hell, need project, help with WC build

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chizzle

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Sup guys,

So I'm bored and need a new project to screw around with. I have a water cooled rig in a 400,000 cubic foot Case Labs case and I'm looking to upgrade and downsize but increase my cooling capacity. Love my Case Labs but it's huge and occasionally vibrates like crazy.

I will be getting:

  • 4770K
  • 16g RAM
  • New motherboard
  • 780 or a Titan...depends on available $$
  • New SSD and another hard drive

I want to stuff all this into a Fractal XL R2 case. I recently bought one for a home server and was really impressed with it. For my water cooling needs I had planned on the following:

  • MCP 655
  • Rad 1 (front) - Alphacool Monsta Dual 120
  • Rad 2 (top) - Alphacool ST30 Dual 120
  • Pump top/res - EK D5 XRes
  • CPU Block - Swiftech Apogee HD
  • Some kind of GPU block
  • ...and a shoggy sammich for vibrations

Plan was to loop from rad 1, to the pump/res, GPU, Rad2, CPU, back to rad 1. I supposed I could do rad 1, pump/res, gpu, cpu, rad 2, back to rad 1. Not sure if there are any real gains to be had from either of those. I know temps would be a little higher going from the GPU to CPU but is it that big of a deal?

I will probably OC a bit - never really done much of that before but with this much cooling and being bored lately, why not, right?

Any suggestions?
 
So long as the reservoir is before the pump, loop order is irrelevant.
 
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