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So, this will be my first foray into water cooling. I've been thinking about it for some time but never really cared enough to get on with it. I've recently moved and the reasons are twofold.
-Where the PC is now located gets really hot (loft in the top flat of a London flat (read: no A/C)
-As it's an open floor plan, it fills the whole flat from a sound perspective so it would be a quieting goal as well.
I haven't really overclocked in a hard core way since 1999 with my Abit BP6 and have only (obviously) relied on air since. I will clock to some degree here as well but I'm not going crazy.
So, my setup is as follows:
CM Cosmos S
Asus Rampage Extreme III
i7-970
2 x GTX460s
1 x 8800GT
2 x Corsair CMG6GX3M3A1866C7
I'm looking to cool the CPU and 460s naturally as well as the NB. I've heard the stock coolers are a PITA to remove on Dominator memory so I may opt out of that cooling for the time being, but will leave the option open to add it to a loop.
That being said, and unfortunately I apparently can't attach anything so I'll have to UL and link my drawing later, but here's what I'm thinking. As the 460s are non-ref, I'm just sticking with a GPU block as opposed to that XSPC design that may fit. The goal being to make this as general as possible so some components may be able to be moved over as I upgrade HW.
I'm not going to spell it all out and let the pic speak for itself (when I post it tonight). The questions I mainly have are whether there are any suggestions for better options. I don't need to squeeze every last degree of heat out of the thing so if it's something that's within 2 deg, then it doesn't matter. Though, if there's a more efficient radiator, I'll be open to that.
For ease of sourcing, I'm sticking with Koolance gear. Sure, I could mix and match, but again, I think perhaps from a performance perspective, it's fine.
Well, ok...since I can't put the pic up yet, I will spell it out...kind of...
Pump to a splitter. Seperate loops for GPUs and CPU/NB joined back into a 3x120 radiator. I'll have ball valves on the back end of each loop with flow meters on each as well to balance them. 13mm for the mainline. 10mm before/after the GPU split as those are running parallel as well. All 6mm lines through each block.
400ml, 60mm OD reservoir
PMP-450
Loop 1 - CPU-370 to MB-ASR3E
Loop 2 - 2xGPU-220
HX-CU1020V radiator
All the related lines, splitters, and other misc gear as well.
I'm a visual person, so if I didn't really explain things well, bear with me until I get that image linked.
And cost isn't an issue.
Thanks in advance!
-Where the PC is now located gets really hot (loft in the top flat of a London flat (read: no A/C)
-As it's an open floor plan, it fills the whole flat from a sound perspective so it would be a quieting goal as well.
I haven't really overclocked in a hard core way since 1999 with my Abit BP6 and have only (obviously) relied on air since. I will clock to some degree here as well but I'm not going crazy.
So, my setup is as follows:
CM Cosmos S
Asus Rampage Extreme III
i7-970
2 x GTX460s
1 x 8800GT
2 x Corsair CMG6GX3M3A1866C7
I'm looking to cool the CPU and 460s naturally as well as the NB. I've heard the stock coolers are a PITA to remove on Dominator memory so I may opt out of that cooling for the time being, but will leave the option open to add it to a loop.
That being said, and unfortunately I apparently can't attach anything so I'll have to UL and link my drawing later, but here's what I'm thinking. As the 460s are non-ref, I'm just sticking with a GPU block as opposed to that XSPC design that may fit. The goal being to make this as general as possible so some components may be able to be moved over as I upgrade HW.
I'm not going to spell it all out and let the pic speak for itself (when I post it tonight). The questions I mainly have are whether there are any suggestions for better options. I don't need to squeeze every last degree of heat out of the thing so if it's something that's within 2 deg, then it doesn't matter. Though, if there's a more efficient radiator, I'll be open to that.
For ease of sourcing, I'm sticking with Koolance gear. Sure, I could mix and match, but again, I think perhaps from a performance perspective, it's fine.
Well, ok...since I can't put the pic up yet, I will spell it out...kind of...
Pump to a splitter. Seperate loops for GPUs and CPU/NB joined back into a 3x120 radiator. I'll have ball valves on the back end of each loop with flow meters on each as well to balance them. 13mm for the mainline. 10mm before/after the GPU split as those are running parallel as well. All 6mm lines through each block.
400ml, 60mm OD reservoir
PMP-450
Loop 1 - CPU-370 to MB-ASR3E
Loop 2 - 2xGPU-220
HX-CU1020V radiator
All the related lines, splitters, and other misc gear as well.
I'm a visual person, so if I didn't really explain things well, bear with me until I get that image linked.
And cost isn't an issue.
Thanks in advance!
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