Watercooling EK-KIT H3O Supreme LT 120 Intel CPU Water Cooling Kit

I recently bought this kit from scan, as in the title, and it's arriving tomorrow. I just wanted some minor advice as I'm a novice of what my first actions should be for when it arrives. e.g) set up and do this...then this... etc.... etc.... Also What order would the components go in... e.g) radiator, reservoir.... etc..

Here is the kit..and I'm fitting it on a LGA1156:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ek-kit-h3o-supreme-lt-120-intel-cpu-using-10mm-fitting-water-cooling-kit

Cheers..Also this is my first forum post

 

Welcome to Bit-Tech!

Check this Bit-tech guide: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2007/08/22/watercooling_101/1 shoudl have lots of answers for the novice (It helped me).

You did some digging before purchasing so I wonder if you discounted the H70 over your kit and why? Or to put another way, what's the advantage of your kit over the prebuilt Corsair that people seem to talk a lot about on these forums? I ask because I am speccing a build, and water cooling has always intrigued.

(http://www.scan.co.uk/products/cors...-cpu-cooler-lga775-1155-1156-1366-am2-am3plus)

 

Hi, I picked the watercooling kit over the corsair ALC's as it is a lot quieter at full load and I can add other radiators to the kit and a bigger pump and reservoir to allow GPU and maybe NORTH and SOUTH BRIDGE cooling! Also I have noticed on some review websites like "HEXUS.NET" that the H70 and H50 are over 30 decibels on full load whereas the watercooling kit posted above runs under 20 decibels, and will cool my cpu at the moment to a better degree allowing me to overclock my i5 750 to around 4 GHZ!

 

so... did it arrive already How does it look! Did it come with instructions...

 

Have a look through my thread (in sig)

 

"I Love Aquatuning and Bit-tech so mu...." oh wait the OTHER link in your sig. +rep. Very informative ty for highlighting it. Now where is WiryRocketer with an update on his build

 

Hey again guys, as this was my first watercooled pc, I spent 5 hours looking for another screw and 2 hours trying to get some distilled water! I'm just about to test it, but hard wire my PSU and test it in a cardboard box so if any leaks occur, it will not damage my computer, I will post an update later to tell you all how it's going! YEY well 'appy

 

If you have not bought any distilled water yet for the coolant concentrate get the 5Ltr bottle of deionised water from Halfords at around £5

 

I got some deionised water from "Motor World" near my house about 1 hour back!

 

The watercooling system is working fine, so Tomorrow I will install it into my system as it was leak free, and update this thread !

 

Awesome work Wiry. Sounds like you have got it licked, but for anyone else who's thinking of starting out these two videos were pretty informative:

http://youtu.be/W6qpkigby5w

http://youtu.be/GzBBjkIw7wU

 

I'd leave it to leak test over night personally, when I tested mine I did it for 2 days, just to be sure

 

OK, your word has been took into observation and I think I might put it on to do another leak test in the morning for about 5-6 hours, which in total would be 9 hours, Although I have been shaking the circuit like mad! Giving it some hammer...Joke, And I am extremely confident about it not ****ing up my system..If it does, then it's my fault!

 

Are you just cooling your CPU?

 

Yes, Although in the near future, I may decide to cool my GPU when I get a new one, and add a new radiator.

 

And what case are you using?

 

I'm using my HAF X

 

My i5 750 is at 3 GHZ running idle:

CORE 0: 22 Degrees Celsius
CORE 1: 22 Degrees Celsius
CORE 2: 22 Degrees Celsius
CORE 3: 22 Degrees Celsius

Compared to about 45 Degrees Celsius with the i5's stock heatsink and fan

A pretty good result me thinks

 

Pics or it never happened
Sounds nice though, what kinda temps under load?

 

I'll get some pics on photobucket later. Got a few jobs to do first!

Prime 95 test. Intel I5 750 @ 3044.1 MHz.

Idle temps: (Degrees Celsius)

Core 0: 22
Core 1: 22
Core 2: 22
Core 3: 22

Prime 95 test for 60 minutes(15:00 to 16:00): (Degrees Celsius)

Core 0: 48
Core 1: 46
Core 2: 44
Core 3: 44

Well 'appy!