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Trying to plan ahead

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dglasgow

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Hi guys, I'm trying to do my research and plan ahead, for a new system I want to build this Christmas. I'm more then likely going to be building an AMD64 FX setup on a SLi board, w/ 2 GT or Ultra 6800 Cards (probably only 1 to begin with)

I've never used or setup a water cooling setup before but I've been trying to learn about it.
I'd like to hand pick everything and do it myself (without hard molding) so I can learn more, but as far as prebuilt kits go I'm looking at the swiftech kit.

I want to cool at least 1 GPU, the CPU, and Northbridge. I'm not into extreme OCing, I'm mostly into Silent operation. So far this is what I've got.

I'll be using a Lian Li V1100 case (w/ sound insulation =)
I was thinking either the swiftech H20 120 kit or....

DD TDX A64 1/2" CPU waterblock
DD 6800 1/2" GPU waterblock
Maze 4 1/2" Chipset waterblock
BlackIce Extreme 120mm (Main question about this, at bottom)
DangerDen D4 12v (question about this as well at bottom)
DD Dual 5.1/4" Bay reservoir

Main Question is, will the BlackIce extreme 120mm be efficient in cooling what I want to cool? Again, I'm not wanting to OC (yet, anyway) I don't want to mod the sound insulation in the case or anything of that nature unless I have too.

Also, well that pump be sufficient?
Thanks a lot, for reading and any advice/ suggestions =)
 
every thing looks good, I wouldnt reccomend the DD 6800 cooler if your going to be running two in SLI, because the dangerden cooler will block the other card. May want to find a smaller GPU block and get two for each card. Gonna take some hard searching though.

Also, the BIX2 will be very nice. It would cool the water down nicely. Some people will say that a heater core will do better, but I have never used one so I wouldnt know

Best of luck!

P.S. The Danger Den D4 Pump pwns, it will do great!
 
Hmm was curious, I want to use the BIX2 w/ 2 120mm fans, I think it'd be better for eventually cooling 2 GPU's in SLi (idealy).....I will be using a Lian Li V1100 case w/ sound insulation, If I mod it to intake air from the top of the case won't that hurt the "effect" of the sound insulation?
Any other suggestion or comments on a better solution?
(P.S. I really don't want to mess with a heatercore, would just the BIX w/ 1 20mm be a viable option?)
 
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