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Water Cooling system ? Case Pre Cool or Built ?

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chriskara10

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After some long research and see other peoples result, there is this little question i couldnt find an answer for.
1 Water Cooling Kit, only Cool the CPU right ?
Now what kinda Water Cooling Kit out there can cool CPU, GPU and Harddrive @ the same time ?

Also the ASII extreme Mobo has a cooling system in the middle of the mobo should i use this one too is i'm going on the CPU anyway ?

I'm pretty new tho this Water Cooling system and i'm trying to get the very best perforamce kit out there anyone can help me for this ?

My other question is there is Case with Liquid system built in already like the Gigabyte 3D mercury Pro, Thermaltake Amror+ or QPower™ P180 Case. Would it be better to buy a pre-built case and do they even have great cooling system in them ?

This is what i'm looking to get :

- Case and cooling system still unknow (need help)
- ASII Extreme Mobo
- QX9770
- OCZ DDr3 ReaperX HPC 2x2 GB PC3 10666
- 9800 GX2
- Ultra X3 1000W
- 2 WD Raptor 150GB 10k RPM and 1 Samsung 1TB
- Killer K1 Ethernet Card
- LG Blu-Ray Burner
- Home Prem. 64 bit vista

Does all this even need a Cooling system for the CPU, GPU and HD anyway ? or a normail case with pre-built cooling will do enough.
I'm not gonna do SLI with 2 9800GX2 for the moment.
 
well from the looks of it, seems like you have a very loose budget lol

i would go with this case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112064

as for cooling kits or well to get it pre built
i would go with a kit or buy each cooling part invidually
cause you might want to move stuff around, and depending
on the pre built system you may not be able to do that

now with buying a kit, you are going to want to make sure
you find one with a block that will fit your GPU

best case scenario buy each part individually:
CPU Block: http://www.petrastechshop.com/dfuuncpubl1.html

GPU Block: well since the 9800GX2 is fairly new, there hasn't been a block released
but check out this thread on it
http://www.overclock3d.net/news.php...cks_for_9800gx2_9800gtx_are_in_the_pipeline/1

Radiator: http://www.petrastechshop.com/thpara2.html

Pump: http://www.petrastechshop.com/lad5badend5i.html

Now you can either do a T-line with a fillport or a reservoir.

Res: http://www.petrastechshop.com/swmchire.html

t-line: http://www.petrastechshop.com/1odtf1and7id.html

fillport: http://www.petrastechshop.com/dadendefi.html

and last but not least

tubing: http://www.petrastechshop.com/1id3odmagepu.html, probably about ten feet of it to be safe


Hard drive: take your pick there, i dont water cool my hdd, but theres a bunch there to check out
http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l2/g30/c203/gallery/p1/Liquid_Cooling-Water_Blocks_HDD.html?o=price_asc
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now if you dont care about moving stuff around and are skeptical about hooking
everything up yourself, go pre built

have fun ;)
 
I have read that WCing the HD is really pointless and can actually hurt the cooling performance for the other items in the loop (CPU and GPU) because of the severe restriction on the loop.
Just stick a 120mm fan in front of the raptors and you'd be fine.

Sick rig though man.
 
very informative post fromeo85. what would you recommend for 8800 gtx in sli?
 
Thx alot Fromeo85, this really helped me.

Taht case you show me is very intersting, but i kinda would like something better looking haha, bcz i would like to make my PC wiith some nice blue light inside etc.

So basically i need to wait a for a GPU block to be for sale now.

Also that understand correctly a the T-Line will shair the cooling between my CPU and GPU right ?
It could also share the cooling with the OCZ Cooling Ram if i choice them instead right ?

Unless you know a better DDR3 Ram memory that i dunno of :) for a better price ^^

Also is there a limit for how many Fan you can put in your PC ?

What is the purpose of fillport ?
 
chriskara10 said:
Thx alot Fromeo85, this really helped me.

Taht case you show me is very intersting, but i kinda would like something better looking haha, bcz i would like to make my PC wiith some nice blue light inside etc.

So basically i need to wait a for a GPU block to be for sale now.

Also that understand correctly a the T-Line will shair the cooling between my CPU and GPU right ?
It could also share the cooling with the OCZ Cooling Ram if i choice them instead right ?

Unless you know a better DDR3 Ram memory that i dunno of :) for a better price ^^

Also is there a limit for how many Fan you can put in your PC ?

What is the purpose of fillport ?
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alright basically the water gets pumped through the tubes
then threw the blocks and what not

basically what the t-line and fillport is for is to fill the system and by system i mean the tubes and rad and all that, with water/coolant liquid speaking of which you going to want to get distilled water and mix it with this:
http://www.petrastechshop.com/swhyexduco.html

now you dont have to use the tline and fillport, you can just use the reservoir, prolly be easier

now lights don't define a case my friend, but what you can do is get a nice windowed case right here:
http://www.xoxide.com/lian-li-pc-v2000bw-plus-2.html

and here are some cathode lights you can throw in:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2...thode_Kit_Dual_Ready_-_Blue.html?tl=g6c75s132

and here is a pic of my setup, you can see how the filport and tline work there, i had a res before but did not have room in this case, so had to go with the tline/filport solution:
http://3dxtreme.net/other/Jeremiah/DSC03476.JPG

as for amount of fans you can put in, considering you going to be watercooling
you really only need like 1 or 2 120mm on the back to blow air out, up to you.


and i know ur a n00b when it comes to this but you can't really water cool the ram, but there are cooling solutions for it, but most ram comes with heat spreaders so you dont really need it
 
haha i know i'm a newbie @ it, but i'm trying really hard to learn :)

One question you didnt answer is how do the Water cooling goes around in the PC ?

Basically every picture i see out there and pre-built cooling system have only the tube going from the radiator to the CPU.

So how does it work for me if i have the GPU, CPU and also the Block on my Mobo. thats 3 things to cool down and thats where i get lost bcz i dont see anywhere something showing me how to do that hehe.

i'm sorry for all those question, but after all this i will have more knowledge about liquid cooling system haha.

One more thing, i really like those one with or without liquid system unless you tell me there are excellent :) both model have the normal or liquid model

http://thermaltakeusa.com/product/Chassis/fulltower/armorPlus/vh600lbws.asp

http://thermaltakeusa.com/product/Chassis/fulltower/XaserVI/VaserVI_index.asp

or i really like the way this one is made

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Chassis/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2327
 
i stand corrected, lol, i haven't really been looking around the DDR3 market, pretty expensive and there isn't much that takes advantage of it yet.

but here take a look at this pic:
IMG_4995.JPG



you can basically see how the tubing runs through out the system from
Rad>Pump>CPU>GPU so on and so forth

now you are going to notice the tline/filport on the left hand side
you can either use that method of filling the system or get a reservoir

now if you're uncomfortable with all this
you may want to go prebuilt

here is a good site to do that:
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com

they give you lots of options
 
kaiweiler said:
I have read that WCing the HD is really pointless and can actually hurt the cooling performance for the other items in the loop (CPU and GPU) because of the severe restriction on the loop.
Just stick a 120mm fan in front of the raptors and you'd be fine.

Sick rig though man.
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It is just one less fan in your case though :)
If you configure you parts right, shouldn't be much of a hurt on performance.
 
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