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Setup changes, need advice.

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djBon2112

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My watercooling setup is quite sufficient right now, but I'm thinking about adding my northbridge + vregs to my loop. My current specs are:

Swiftech MCP655 (pump)
D-TEK Customs Fuzion (CPU block)
Swiftech MCW60 (GPU block)
HW Labs Black Ice GT Stealth 240 (radiator)
2x 120mm Panaflo Hi-speed fans (however then run at medium-speed thanks to my fan controller)
Swiftech resovoir (not the micro one)
1/2" diameter tubing

It's cooling a Q6600 OCed to 3.6 @ 1.376 volts and an x1950 XTX. My load temps with both being stressed never exceed around 55-60 degrees (max fan), idling at around 35-40 (CPU), 42-45 (GPU) (min fan).

I'm thinking of adding a Koolance VR-AS40 and a Swiftech MCW30 to cool the vregs and northbrigde, respectively. The below image shows how I'm thinking of setting it up versus what I have now (please ignore the paint :p) Given that I have two sets of voltage regulators, I might get two of the waterblocks for them, but I'm not really sure.



Anyone have any suggestions/ideas? Should I keep them split off or just add them to the rest of the loop?
 
Flow? Yes, alot.

Temperature? Not very much.

Flow isn't that important... And those components don't dump alot of heat.
 
Alrighty, a little update.

I need advice right now more than anything.

First, will cooling the vregs give me any noticeable benefit? Second, I'm thinking of changing my radiator to this in addition to adding at least the northbridge to the loop. Will this provide me with any significant increase in cooling (assuming I'm using 3 identical fans and they're all the same as I have now)?

I'm also going to be laping my CPU sometime in the near future, if that makes any difference here.
 
Vreg cooling does very little.

That Rad will increase your cooling performance about 30%, but won't drop your CPU temps all that much... The current radiator is fine for a single Quad Core.

Lapping should help though.
 
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