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Looking for a nice simple watercooling

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HAF932

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I have an Coolermaster 932, Intel DX58SO, and i7-2600k. What would be an nice simple Watercooling? Open to suggestion!
 
Whats your budget? Are you talking real liquid cooling or like a H100 or something?
 
Lol shouldnt say that liquid cooling can get very expensive. You thinking compression fittings or barb fittings? Are you going for looks or dont care how it looks?
Compression fittings look amazing but are very expensive
Barbs dont look as good but are a hell of a lot cheaper
tubing- 1/2" ID i think.

Are you looking to just cool your CPU? If so check out some Xspc rasa rs240 or rs360 kits. Great performance/price ratio...
 
Thanks alot for your info, it was really helpful, not to mention very fast! Im going for look so compression fittings. Im pretty sure you can tell im new at this, but thanks again like the way you break down things!
 
I am very new at this too. Bitspower makes some of the best compression fittings.
So lets start from the top
CPU block- The koolance 370 is a very good and very sexy looking cpu block (I am redoing everything and im going to go for looks too so thats the one im getting)
Rad- Cruiza told me to loook at a swiftech mcp- 320 but idk know anything about your case so you can mount it on the outside if you want to or get the 220 version. They cool well. Xspc makes good rads too.
Res- Again for looks and what i like i think you would like the EK X2 is a good rad and it looks good.
Pump- A MCP-355 or a MCP-655. For looks and more flow and head pressure get a top part. or a um god i cant remember there name. What i am doing is a MCP-655B well its done through Koolance but its that pump only the 24V version which is the best in terms of flow and pressure. But most people dont need that.
Fittings- BP compression fittings are good. I think you should do 1/2" ID and either 5/8"OD or 3/4"od
Tubing doesnt really matter
Liquid- Distalled water and either PT nuke or a Silver kill coil are good
Fans-Yate loons are cheap fans....

Sorry im on my ipad both of my computers are updating so...

(Just wait for cruiza or someone like him like tsumi they will make me look extremely new too lol)
 
I actually started watercooling a year and a half ago, so I'm not all that experienced xP.

My main point of concern before addressing anything else is the DX58SO and the i7 2600k. The 2600k does not work on x58 motherboards.
 
Aus10 said:
Lol shouldnt say that liquid cooling can get very expensive. You thinking compression fittings or barb fittings? Are you going for looks or dont care how it looks?
Compression fittings look amazing but are very expensive
Barbs dont look as good but are a hell of a lot cheaper
tubing- 1/2" ID i think.

Are you looking to just cool your CPU? If so check out some Xspc rasa rs240 or rs360 kits. Great performance/price ratio...
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Beat me to it lol I'm going to pick up a rasa rs240 and do a CPU loop on my sandy bridge when I get it for christmas. I hear its a really good kit for the price.
 
Yeah it is. Tsumi knows alot more than I do lol he started a year and a half ago I started 2 months ago or so lol

The xspc rasa rs kits are great for bangs for your buck.

Any other questions?
 
sorry about that i was typing and talking about the i7-2600k. i ment to say i7-960
 
I would start off with a RX360 kit if you're doing CPU only. Be sure to add a silver killcoil or PT Nuke. Afterwards, you can change to compression fittings or whatever you want. You can add GPU's later also.
 
HAF932 said:
I have an Coolermaster 932, Intel DX58SO, and i7-2600k. What would be an nice simple Watercooling? Open to suggestion!
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You are not using a DX58SO and a Core i7 2600K together. DX58SO is an X58 / ICH10R based LGA1366 motherboard.

HAF932 said:
sorry about that i was typing and talking about the i7-2600k. i ment to say i7-960
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Ahh, I missed this during my first scan of the thread.
 
If he doesn't have a limit then I dont think one of those kits would be ok. The pumps arnt that stronge if he ever wants to keep adding more and more later.
 
Well the xspc rasa rs rx kits the pump that comes with them is weak. If you arnt on a budget then why would you get cheap stuff? Don't get me wrong for a CPU it is fine maybe one gpu still ok but anything past that I wouldn't do. Just my two sense
 
Yeah get like a res and the 655 or the 355 built into the same thing that's simple enough.
 
No budget limit?

My suggestions would be:

Koolance CPU-370 or the Cuplex Kyros Silver edition if you want to spend a lot of money (block is 92.5% silver, and honestly if I got this, I would put it on display rather than using it)
MCP655 with the bitspower sparkle custom dressing (makes it look really damn nice)
Feser UV reactive tubing, 1/2" ID with 3/4" OD, 7 to 8 feet should give you plenty of tubing
Bitspower compression fittings 1/2" ID 3/4" OD
UV Cold Cathode tubes with a sound sensitive inverter <--- I have this, makes things look really cool when you're playing music
Gentle Typhoons when they come back in stock, 1850 RPM models, 6 of them
A fan controller of your choosing.
Black Ice GTX 360 (fits natively in the 932)
Silver killcoil
A reservoir of your choosing, I like those FrozenQ T-virus ones

For GPU blocks, I would pick a fullcover one that you like aesthetically, just make sure it fits your GPU. At the moment I would avoid EK products though, they are having issues and poor customer support at the moment.
 
I agree with tsumi those parts are the best get the B version with the 24v mod :) lol that's some power
 
Tsumi said:
I would start off with a RX360 kit if you're doing CPU only. Be sure to add a silver killcoil or PT Nuke. Afterwards, you can change to compression fittings or whatever you want. You can add GPU's later also.
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I just did this. 360 rad option. Temps are an awesome improvement over air (10c drop at idle, cpu block jumps 2c at load and internal cpu jumps 6c at load) so not bad for $200 investment. Plus it is far quieter.

I now have LOTS of cable cleanup, but that can wait a few months. :D
 
My suggestion is that you dont skimp on the radiators or pumps, as you can reuse them for years and years. Get a cpu block that has multiple mounting options as the performance between the best and worst ones are 5C at most. Heatkiller, Koolance, and Kryos are all good cpu blocks. Thermochill, XSPC RX, and Blackice SR1 are all good radiators for low rpm fans. Pump get either mcp35x, mcp355 w/custom top, or mcp655. Would also get compression fittings if you can afford them as well.
 
Tsumi said:
No budget limit?

My suggestions would be:

Koolance CPU-370 or the Cuplex Kyros Silver edition if you want to spend a lot of money (block is 92.5% silver, and honestly if I got this, I would put it on display rather than using it)
MCP655 with the bitspower sparkle custom dressing (makes it look really damn nice)
Feser UV reactive tubing, 1/2" ID with 3/4" OD, 7 to 8 feet should give you plenty of tubing
Bitspower compression fittings 1/2" ID 3/4" OD
UV Cold Cathode tubes with a sound sensitive inverter <--- I have this, makes things look really cool when you're playing music
Gentle Typhoons when they come back in stock, 1850 RPM models, 6 of them
A fan controller of your choosing.
Black Ice GTX 360 (fits natively in the 932)
Silver killcoil
A reservoir of your choosing, I like those FrozenQ T-virus ones

For GPU blocks, I would pick a fullcover one that you like aesthetically, just make sure it fits your GPU. At the moment I would avoid EK products though, they are having issues and poor customer support at the moment.
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That's pretty much what I'd do but I like the idea of getting a reservoir with the pump in it for a cleaner setup. I like the XSPC version the best. Koolance's looks nice too but I've never known anyone who has used one.
 
I did the dual 355 with XSPC double bay rez/pump combo and it works great with my setup. Just make sure to add a drain T down low for maintence. I've got the one that shares the rez with both pumps instead of splitting and kinda wished I'd gone with the seperator in the rez for the option of running the pumps in series. Instead I just have one pump for the rad and one pump for the loop but the loops criss cross in the rez for circulation.


I really need to finish my project/log...
 
Corsair Hydro Series comes to mind when you need cheap + watercooling. But it won't be very good compared to something you build yourself. WCing is generally a very expensive hobby (when done right).
 
Sufu said:
Corsair Hydro Series comes to mind when you need cheap + watercooling. But it won't be very good compared to something you build yourself. WCing is generally a very expensive hobby (when done right).
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Aint that the truth my cart is running 594.86 right now...
 
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