Cooling 240 rad be enough

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  1. grritsshawn

    grritsshawn I'm not insane I'm a modder

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    will a 240mm rad be enough for a core i5 720 oc to 3ghz and a gtx 460?
     
  2. paisa666

    paisa666 I WILL END YOU!!!

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    its this a single FAN rad or two 240 FAN rad?

    if its just one I think it wouldnt cool the water quite well, your loop would run hot!!

    for this combo you should at leat make it 2 rads, the normal 120 outake rad at the rear of the case, and 2x120 intake on top or front
     
  3. bulldogjeff

    bulldogjeff The modding head is firmly back on.

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    You'll be able to get away with it(just) but you'll find that the fans will need to be running flat out to cope with the temps. The gtx runs pretty hot so a separate loop would be preferable. Maybe fitting it on it's own and running some thing like the H50 on the CPU would make ore sense.
     
  4. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    Apologies for the threadjack: (didn't see any reason to start another 'will this rad cool this' thread when sshawn has done a good enough job :) )

    Would a 2x80mm Rad (Black Ice Micro Dual 80mm) with 2x 28cfm 80mm fans (Arctic F8's) cool 2x 95w TDP opterons?
     
  5. Baz

    Baz I work for Corsair

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    I run a core i7 920, a GTX 280 and my northbridge off a slim 2x120mm rad - no issues and temps never go over 50°C. So you, a 240rad will be fine for that setup.
     
  6. Phalanx

    Phalanx Needs more dragons and stuff.

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    Oooh! Interesting. I wonder if a similar setup could handle my 5970 and i7 920 overclocked. What do you reckon Baz?
     

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