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reservoir dimensions?

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Everfalling

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Possible noob question ahead:

I'm trying to make a mod that's going to have little room in front of the cpu to work with, so i figure a liquid cooling pad would fit better than a heatsink and fan setup. thing is, i lack space more or less everywhere else. my question is, how big do water cooling reservoir's get, and how small can they be? is there a difference between having a larger reservoir and a small one? And how much do these setups usually cost?
 
In terms of cooling performance, a resevoir's impact is negligable at best, non-existant at worst. The effect hypothetically can be that the water will take longer to get to an equilibrium temperature... but it's going to hit that anyway regardless of how long it takes.
Since you are cramped for space, why not just ditch the resevoir and use a t-line?
For pricing of a whole setup, we have done it for around $150 and gotten a solid setup. A quick forum search will turn up lots of results in the past weeks about cheap setups.
 
ok. a tline sounds good. but how about the radiator? i've recently looked up some radiators on that sticky htread, and they seem to get pretty big. how small can i get those while still being effective?
 
Depends on what you are doing with it, but a Black Ice Pro should easily handle a CPU and a GPU. But the bigger question is how much room do you have for a rad?
 
the cooling system is for this mod i'm trying to do here:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=926579

concept here: http://www.myfilebin.com/userfiles/everfalling/other/case design 2.swf

you can see a rectangular shaft labled 'ventelation shaft'. my idea was to place the rad underneath that shaft, and have air be fanned over it as it exits the case. the thing is, it seems rads are either large squares, or long rectangles, and i donno if it'll fit underneath the shaft as well as i would hope.
 
of what? the sphere is 17" in diameter (though i'm thinking of extending it to 18) and the shaft is a little more than 7" long, 2" high and 2" wide, but that's just looking at that rough draft. in reality, it'll prolly be wider. but the widest i think it can be is 4".
 
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