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First Time Attempting Water Cooling

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Daedelous

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My current system is brute force using heatsinks and 140cfm fans. I have been looking into water cooling as a better means of temperature control for my main system. I have read numerous "how to articles" and such. But I am still unsure of a few areas. Below are the list of components I have selected so far based on my initial research.

CPU Block: Watercool HEATKILLER CPU Rev3.0 754/393/AM2
Rad: ThermoChill PA120.3 3x120mm Radiator 15mm spacing
Pump: Swiftech MCP655 12v DC Pump - with Speed Controller
Management Panel: Koolance CTR-CD10BK Pump & Fan Speed Controller, Black
Top Panel: T-70103B 3 x 120mm fan cutouts for rad installation

The other parts needed that I am unsure of which is best to get. Are the reservoir, which type/kind/brand of luquid would be best, tube brand and size and either barbs or compression fittings and also which size to get for best flow. My current system specs are listed below.

Case: Lian Li PC-A7010B
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965BE C3
Mobo: MSI NF980-G65
RAM: Corsair Domintaor GT 4GB DDR3-1600 C7 Kit
GPU: Evga GTX 285 2GB SC
Sound: Auzentech X-Fi Forte
PSU: Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050W

But since I have been thinking about this water cooling setup. I also noticed EVGA has updated it's current products to include an nVidia GTX 480 Hydo series and was wondering if that would be possible to cool with the parts listed above regarding the water cooling setup. Thank you for any and all help.
 
You have many options for reservoir - Swiftech Micro Res, Tube style Reservoirs, Bay Reservoirs, just a question of where you have room to mount it.

Liquid - Distilled water with some biocide (PT Nuke).

Tube Brand - Tygon if you want the best (read: expensive) brand. Masterkleer or Durelene are cheaper alternatives. Size doesn't really matter that much and has almost no impact on performance.

Compressions fittings are a bit easier to work with than regular barbs and clamps, and look better, but again, a lot more expensive comparatively.

A PA 320 should be just sufficient enough for a video card and the cpu. Though you'll likely need to crank the fans up if you want to push your overclocks.
 
Thank you for the information, it does help alot. I seen that swiftech makes a waterblock that has a peltier on the bottom. Was wondering if I could use that block to super cool the coolant in the main loop. I was thinking of mounting another block on the bottom side which would chill the coolant going through the bottom block and have it output into the main loop just after the rad. But I would probably need a second loop to cool the hot side of the peltier that the other block would be cooling. Just trying to picture in my mind if that would be possible or if adding that block after the rad would place too much restriction on the pump on my list.
 
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