I've been working on designing a new system for home, and the cooling is a bit of a challenge.
I'm looking at the new Tyan Thunder K8WE w/ dual Opteron 250 CPU's, and dual ATI X800 XT PE based video cards.
With all of these hot processors, it would be a veritable storm coming from the case. So, I'm looking at what I would need to cool...
2 x Opteron 250's
2 x ATI GPU's
I'm not sure if I would also need to do chipset cooling w/ the PCI-E chipsets. I'm also looking at cooling the primary drive in the system, because I want to run a 15k RPM U320 HD for fast OS disk I/O.
I'm looking at the ThermalTake Armor VA8000SWA chassis to hold the EATX mainboard.
As far as the WC setup, I'm looking at whether I should run a single close loop w/ 1/2" ID hose, or two separate loops at 3/8" ID. I'm concerned about the amount of space between the various cooling points. I'm not planning to OC, but just want to run the system as silent as possible. I'm looking at eventually upgrading the CPU's to dual core Opterons once they are released.
Has anyone done anything like this? In all the pics and such, I'm not seen an examples of dual cpu WC installs.
Suggestions?
- Kelson
I'm looking at the new Tyan Thunder K8WE w/ dual Opteron 250 CPU's, and dual ATI X800 XT PE based video cards.
With all of these hot processors, it would be a veritable storm coming from the case. So, I'm looking at what I would need to cool...
2 x Opteron 250's
2 x ATI GPU's
I'm not sure if I would also need to do chipset cooling w/ the PCI-E chipsets. I'm also looking at cooling the primary drive in the system, because I want to run a 15k RPM U320 HD for fast OS disk I/O.
I'm looking at the ThermalTake Armor VA8000SWA chassis to hold the EATX mainboard.
As far as the WC setup, I'm looking at whether I should run a single close loop w/ 1/2" ID hose, or two separate loops at 3/8" ID. I'm concerned about the amount of space between the various cooling points. I'm not planning to OC, but just want to run the system as silent as possible. I'm looking at eventually upgrading the CPU's to dual core Opterons once they are released.
Has anyone done anything like this? In all the pics and such, I'm not seen an examples of dual cpu WC installs.
Suggestions?
- Kelson