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Easy, Good Water cooling

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pArTy

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Whats a easy to maintain, setup, and is good. I'm new to water cooling and want water cooling on my next system(AMD mobo most likly a FX-55). I plan to do video card, bridges, and cpu.
 
Depends on what you want to do with your box AFTER you get it water cooled. :confused:

Need more input!
 
We need to know your budget (guessing high sine youre getting an FX-55), your current case/how much youre willing to mod it to fit parts, and if you want to have quiet cooling or possibly loud, but powerful cooling.
 
additional detail is if you are willing to cut and run 120V AC electrical cable, or if we should stick strictly to things that you can run of the 12 V rail of your computer PSU.

probably not worthwhile to watercool your bridge: just put a good aftermarket chipset heatsink on it.
 
My budget.. Very high. High enough that I should beable to get the best of the best. :D I plan to over clock after I get water cooling and my case I dunno yet. Same with PSU. I'm building a computer from scratch and this is my first water cooling system so something easy to setup and maintain and would be nice for it to be pretty good. Noise doesnt matter. Right now I got 6 120mm fans on my case. Just need a good set of speakers to counter ack it. :-P

I dont wanna do anything that has a high risk of screwing up the system.
 
well... I gues sif you can spend all the money in the world and want the best that can be had you could try to convince Cathar to make you a silver cpu block....
 
are you running with a single vid card, or are you doing SLI?

i've got something in mind, that is reasonably easy to put together and maintain, if having a normal budget is truely not an issue.......
 
well if you want the best of the best....


Bribe cathaar to make you a special StormG5 (all are sold out afaik). Get an Iwaki-MD20-RLT or RZT for your pump.

For the GPU run a separate loop with say...2 D4 pumps(in series) 2 DDNV68-SLi waterblocks, paired with an Asus-A8N SLI motherboard.

Get some quickdisconnects to run both of those loops outside the case to two of Weapons "Monster Cores" Each having 8 120mm fans in push-pull configuration.....


good enough for ya? lol, man would I love to have that watercooling setup.
 
i guess that my final question would be does "easy" include cutting some round holes with tinsnips and drilling some holes for case screws?

how big is your case?

i agree that erasmus' proposed setup is worthy of song. it's even better than what i am about to lay out. i think that mine is a little easier, though.

i would describe this setup as two semi-parallel loops.

two dangerden low profile acetyl blocks.
enough tweakmonster ramsinks for all you video memory.
two dangerden 12 V DC pumps. (iwaki pumps would be better, but not as easy)
two dangerden double heatercores with shrouds. (thermochill 120.2 rads, if money is truely abundant)
4 panalo H1A 120 mm fans or 8 L1A fans.(push pull, vs fans on one side. use a fan controller either way)
one thermalright NB-1c chipset cooler.
one dangerden silver RBX waterblock (RBX copper or astek whitewater to save money)
a sac full of hose clamps.
one Y connector.
two T connectors.
two dangerden fill ports of your preferred colour.
quite a bit of tygon R3603 tubing.
one tube AS5.
one AS epoxy kit.
zerex coolant additive.
distilled water.
 
pipe one pump to each GPU block.
connect enough hose to the outlet of each waterblock to get most of the way from each GPU waterblock to the CPU waterblock, and Y the two tubes together.
put the hose coming from the single output of the Y into the center inlet of the RBX.
attach one hose to each of the outer barbs of the RBX, and connect each hose to one of the rads.
pipe each rad back to a T line just in front of each pump.
go from the T line into the pump.
remaining end of the Ts connected via a length of hose to the fill ports, which would be attached to the top of you case.

circuit complete. res being alternate to the T fittings, but i think that the Ts might get somewhat better flow.

a PCP&C 510 SLI PSU, 2 gig (4x512) of mushkin PC4400 black, the FX-55, a motherboard that does not yet exist, and stuff it all into a lian li PC 7077B case for something very close to my dream system.
 
oh yeah, if you chose to up the ante to thermoelectric cooling at some future date, this would accomodate you.

you'd need to replace the CPU block, and add a dedicated PSU to run the peltier modules, but it has enough capacity that i think that you could pull it off.

even if you do not go for something this hardcore, i don't think that most pre-done kits have enough capacity for your needs.
 
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