Need A Guide To Water Cooling This

[Malaclypse_The_Young]

Ive just become interested in water cooling and the case mods and rockin watercooled systems Ive seen in these forums have only increased these interests. Ive only one problem. I cant find a good guide to purchase and setup a really good system. I was hoping that you guys could help me out with this. I'll post my stuff and take any advice that any of you could give me.

--Thanks


-Thermaltake Highest Xaser III V1000A Super Tower

-Lite On Black 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive

-Seagate 160GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive16.00

-INTEL PENTIUM 4/ 3.2C GHZ 800MHZ FSB, 512K CACHE

-POWERCOLOR RADEON 9700PRO Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit

-Asus 875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU

-THERMALTAKE W0019+PFC Silent Purepower 480W

-Kingston HyperX Series Dual Kits 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3500

 

[Malaclypse_The_Young]

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[cgrant26]

You basically have 2 options:
1) Select and assemble each componant for your system or
2) Buy a kit
While the kits have everything you will need to get a system going, selecting your own componants will usually be cheaper and allow you to choose the best parts suited to your system. There are guides-o-plenty on the net, but one place that I like is overclockers.com. Also take a peek in the stickys at the top of this forum if you havent already.
Some good kits to consider:
Koolance Exos - Simple to set up and a good performer
DangerDen - good kits for hard core performance
Swiftech - " "
Dtec - " "
If you go the componant route, heres some personal recommendations:
---CPU Block---
Dtec WhiteWater CPU Block
DangerDen RBX, Maze4 or Maze 3 CPU blocks
Swiftech MCW5000 CPU Block
---Pump---
Eheim 1250 or 1048
Maxijet 1200
Hydor L20 or L30

For the rest, Tygon tubing is pretty much the best, but clearflex is good too. For real performance go with 1/2" ID tubing. For your radiator, there are literally thousands of options. You can use an oil cooler and find a huge variety of sizes and depths, but an automotive heater core will bleed heat better. Of course, heater cores will limit your size/shape options. Do a Google search to find which heater cores would fit best or post another question specifically asking about them. I personally use an oil cooler as I needed something to fit an unusual space. Finally, a reservior. While you can run a closed loop, a reservior will give you the bennefit of increasing system capacity, slowing water velocity enough to release air bubbles and make filling/bleeding much, much easier. There are a couple of reservior DIY tutorials, one that comes to mind is on overclockers.com. You can also get a huge variety of them from any of the waterblock manufacturers I listed above. I hope this is of some help to you.

 

[Malaclypse_The_Young]

Yes this was an enormous amount of help. Exactly what i was looking for thanks cary.