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How many radiators?

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BellaCroix

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I'm planning a new watercooling set-up which I plan to keep around for a while and allow future upgrades to utilize. At the moment I'm planning a lower end Athlon 64 with a high end video card and two hard drives (one will be documents only and will also hold the swap file). I'm plannin on keeping the NB actively cooled with a fan and HSU and the documents drive air cooled. The kit is going to be the bastard child of AquaComputers and Innovatek.

At the moment I'm planning a single dual 120mm radiator on a single loop to cool the processor, GPU, and at least one HDD.

Will the single double radiator be enough for that? Do I need to try to find room for a second radiator? If I grow into SLI will I need to add it later? Do I need two seperate loops with different pumps, etc?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
Do some math and look up the thermal outputs of your system, then look up what the rad can do. Use some brain power and decide.


You can always set it up and then upgrade the rad if you need to, make sure everything is gonna fit or whatever.
 
You shouldn't have any problems at all, my single (120.1) heatercore with a single 80cfm fan (sucking air off the rad) was enough to cool my 3.4E @ 4.3GHz and my X800XT-PE @ 702MHz on the same loop.....you'll be fine. ;)

No real reason to try and slap h2O on any of your hard drives though, if you've got some intake infront of the drive(s) that'll be fine, save yourself the time/trouble/money of routing tubing for the hard drive and just do the cpu and gpu.
 
cornelious0_0 said:
You shouldn't have any problems at all, my single (120.1) heatercore with a single 80cfm fan (sucking air off the rad) was enough to cool my 3.4E @ 4.3GHz and my X800XT-PE @ 702MHz on the same loop.....you'll be fine. ;)

No real reason to try and slap h2O on any of your hard drives though, if you've got some intake infront of the drive(s) that'll be fine, save yourself the time/trouble/money of routing tubing for the hard drive and just do the cpu and gpu.
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I was pretty much thinking the same thing but I planned to put a HDD silencer/cooler on anyway and since those are about $25 and the watercooling rig that does about the same was $35 I figured it would be a decent investment. Not worth it?
 
Depends on how quite you want your harddrives, and for people saying dont water cool your hardrives blah blah means they cant afford it and then they bash other people lol. Just think about what two raptors will add to your ambient temps ? It will not matter how much cold air your putting in your case. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=881561 link to one of my rigs dual pump, dual loop etc. You said you were going to use AC and INOv together so your tubing size may be similar. I used a x3 120mm rad for my 6800's and the smaller x1 120mm rad for the CPU and HD's, with all this going on ambient temps never went above 40c but my case was sealed with closed cell foam and felt for noise.
 
Well I have 2 BI Pro's (120mm) and one BI Dual Micro (160mm) in my system I am building. With my Aquaero I can turn on the fans only as I need them. The rest of the time they will act as passive radiators. HDD coolers work, but are pricey at $50-150 a piece. But if the sound of silence is your thing and you want a cool computer then go for it. I have three Raptors all water cooled. :D
 
Aviddigi said:
...snip... http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=881561 link to one of my rigs dual pump, dual loop etc. ...re-snip...
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I've seen your case, Aviddigi. It's actually what inspired me to go ahead with the case I'd been sketching for the last few months. Excellent work although I'm still wondering how the heck you painted it (from what I've experienced it's pretty friggin' difficult to paint anodized aluminum).


Top Nurse said:
...snip... HDD coolers work, but are pricey at $50-150 a piece. ...re-snip...
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That's why I'm planning the bastard WC rig... I can get an Innovatek HDD cooler for $35. Although it doesn't have the pretty front panel from AC it looks like it'll do the job and I'll just have Things Remembered engrave a BellaCroix Cooling front bezel. :p

Thanks everyone for your input. I think I'll WC the HDD(s) at least until I go into SLI. I'm thinking with just a single (not-OCed) CPU, one GPU, and the hard drive I should probably get respectable numbers from the single x2-120mm radiator. After I go SLI when the prices come down (hell, even a good-enough PSU is still way too expensive), I'll re-mod the case to accomodate a secondary loop.
 
I love to inspire lol painting the case is not as hard as you think, sandblasting everything and not hitting the raw aluminum on the inside is the hard part. Primer,sand,primer,sand, then light or dark primer depending on paint ( old myth ) paint it dont f up then your good to go. Post pics of the AC INOv rig on the AC forums also they will love it, just so it works for you who cares lol
 
I plan to post pics of it when it's done. Until August all I'm doing is pricing everything and buying parts as people put things on sale, sell used parts, or offer free shipping. It'll probably be late this year before it's actually done.

I'm also stuck finding a company to do anodizing, mirror cutting, and machining work so that may delay the completion date a little too. I've decided this is the last case mod I'm going to do for myself (yeah, right) so I'm trying to do it right so that it can be around as home for the next couple of builds.

I've been tearing to shreds a Lian-Li PC-75 that I'm using as my test bed right now to practice things like painting and dremelling aluminum, water cooling, cable routing, lighting, etc. Measure once... blah blah blah... it only helps if you don't screw up when you're cutting.
 
After much consideration, I have decided to go with two. The equipment is as follows, 2 GPU's, 1 NB and 1 CPU, 1 EVO 240 mounted in the top and 1 EVO 160 in the bottom. When you turbocharge a car, how many rads do you have? If you have 2 turbo's you have 2 rads. Actually that's all BS, I just figured why not? 2 is always better than 1, at least that way you have redundancy.
 
Two turbos, bigger intercooler, or www.rippmods.com add a mixture to your intercooler so that you can use a smaller one and still use a good amount of PSI and drive ability on the street. LOL
Good choice go with the two rads
 
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