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Think these will work well together?

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Well I'm putting together a budget watercooling system soon and I was just wondering if everythiing looked okay.
Here are the basics:

Swiftech MCRES-1000 Resevoir/Pump combo- here
DangerDen TDX (3/8") CPU block- here
Black Ice Pro 120mm radiator- here

I also already own a Thermaltake Aquarius II vga block which will be incorporated in. From my research everything seems like it will work great, anything I'm missing?
 
Just by chance you forgot, you'll will need a 120mm fan to strap to that radiator there unless you're going passive.

Otherwise, looks great, let me know how that res/pump combo work out.
 
The TT GPU block is 6mm tubing versus 10mm tubing, personally I'd get a different block that offered less flow restriction like the Maze4 GPU block for instance and sell the TT block to make some of the money back.

The reason I bring this up is that the pump you've chosen is rated at around 130GPH with close to a 10ft head, which for a 3/8" inch system running a TDX and other non-restrictive blocks (the TDX being impingement it adds a lot of head to the system) would be just fine but necking the tubing down to 6mm from 10mm is going to cut the effective area in half which is really going to have a negative impact on your overall flow rates.

Koolance has a product to help minimalize this which is a 10mm inlet to 2-6mm outlets. You hook 2 of these to your 10mm tubing then run a 6mm tube from one side to the other creating a bypass and the second set of barbs (in and out) you run to a 6mm waterblock.

This will allow half (roughly) of the flow from the 10mm tubing to go through the 6mm block and half to bypass it thus allowing you to keep the restrictions to a minimum.
 
Igg said:
Just by chance you forgot, you'll will need a 120mm fan to strap to that radiator there unless you're going passive.

Otherwise, looks great, let me know how that res/pump combo work out.
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heh, Yeah I know. I just didn't list it as that wasn't something was un-sure about. As for the TT block, it comes with 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" fittings. Could just use the 3/8" fittings?
 
Then it's not the Aquarius II GPU block but a BigWater GPU block...the Aquarius II GPU block was equipped with 6mm fittings that were non-removable.

Yes, by all means if it's got 3/8" fittings then just run those.
 
oh, well Xoxide has it listed as Aquarius II so I figured thats waht I had bought:p. But cool, now I just gotta get the funds...
 
Yeah I meandered over to TT's site and they list both the VGA blocks as simply "Aquarius" VGA blocks (why I dunno) when the acrylic topped one didn't come out until the BigWater setup was introduced.

The older VGA block was like the AQ2 CPU block in that it was solid metal and featured fixed inlet/oulet barbs while the newer one that you've got features a copper base with clear top and swapable compression type fittings but they both share the same name, go figure.

Personally I like the way the new GPU block is made, I'm interested to know how it works.
 
I've read some reviews, performs within 2c Polarflo's vga block so its not half bad. I havn't seen it compared with DD block's though. I have mine hooked up right now in a dedicated vga wc system pieced together from my old Aquarius II kit.
 
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