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Water Cooling Help for PC

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Hazarded

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Alphacool, Swiftech, Aquacomputer, Koolance, and Heatkiller are my recommended brands. Primochill is good for tubing as well. Monsoon makes some very nice fittings and reservoirs. XSPC has some issues but is okay for the most part. EK doesn't care about their customers as long as they get their money.

What is your case?
 
For radiators, I would measure the thickness you have available, and get the thickest radiators you can fit. The most highly recommended radiators are the Alphacool Nexxxos series, which start with the ST at 30mm and end with the Monsta at 80mm thick.

For the reservoir, do you want a bay reservoir (fits in the 5.25" bays), or a standalone reservoir? Do you want integration with the pump or no integration?

I usually recommend the Laing D5 pump (also known as the Swiftech MCP655, Koolance PMP-450, VP655, etc). The Laing DDC series are good as well (MCP355, MCP35X, PMP-400, etc).

I highly recommend Aquacomputer or Heatkiller GPU blocks. They're among the best. Swiftech is relatively decent.

I recommend the Swiftech Apogee HD or the Apogee XL for the CPU block.
 
I don't have space for a drive bay reservoir. A reservoir with pump integration would be better since it would help.

http://i.imgur.com/SHgx4Bd.jpg

^That's similar to what i want for the water cooled system. The only thing I'm not using the lower radiator or whatever that mofeset block thing. I will be only using the right and top radiators with the gpu and cpu clocks.
 
Push-pull is usually worthless in my experience, just go with a set of good fans in push for the rads. The air cube can fit a pair of slim 360 rads from what it looks (30mm thick). One alphacool ut60 240 (60mm thick) at the top and one alphacool xt45 360 (45mm thick) in the front, should be able to fit.


For res/pump combos, xspc photon and ek d5 vario X-res are options to look at.

Primochill advanced lrt tubing, is what I recommend unless you want to try acrylic tubing.

Xspc raystorm is an excellent bang for the buck cpu block. Koolance 380i and ek supremacy, are usually at the top when it comes to performance but pricier.

Gpu link is not working for me, so I can't comment on the blocks I would recommend.
 
This would be a good combo. Bitspower makes high quality stuff.
 
I take it you have a 7970 then? Because your newegg link doesn't work.

Get this over the EK.
 
Also are these good?

EK D5 X-RES Top 140 - Acetal - Laing D5 / Swiftech MCP655-B/655/655-PWM

Apogee XL CPU BLOCK

Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper Triple 120mm Radiator

Swiftech MCRx40 "Quiet Power" Dual 140mm Radiator - Black (MCR240-QP)

Masterkleer PVC Tubing 1/2" ID / 3/4" OD - 10ft Retail Pack - UV Dark Red

XSPC FLX Premium Grade PVC Tubing - 1/2" ID (3/4"OD) - 2 Meter (6.5 Feet) Retail Pack - UV Red
 
Hazarded said:
I have a Club 3D r9 280x will that still be compatible?
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May depend on which specific model number you have, but from what I see the Club 3D royalking and royalqueen have reference PCB's, so they *should* be compatible but to be sure you should find the exact model number you have
 
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