I am going to water cool my system and need some addvice. I have done alot of research on the net but am still not sure if this set up will work. I have a piant shop drawing of the setup but am not sure how to attach it to the post. Here is a list of components: Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition Case Thermaltake 1050 PSU ASUS Crosshair V Formula AMD FX 8150 2 x EVGA Hydra 680 watercooled cards XSPC Dual 5.25 bay res Bitspower Dual D5 Mod Top Extreme w/dual pumps installed EK-Supreme HF High Flow CPU Block- Full EN EK-FB ASUS Crosshair V Water block for NB Aquacomputer Airplex XT 240 mounted in top of case for CPU and Chipset 2 x Swifteck Helix 120mm fans for top RAD Black Ice GT Extreme 420 RAD with 3 Areocool Shark Series 140mm Black Edition HP Fans Tygon tubing and all fittings will be Crush fittings 1/2 ID 3/4 OD This will be a single loop system: RES to Pump...Pump to CPU...CPU to NB...NB to top RAD (Aquacomputer 240) From there to GPU 1 .....GPU 1 to GPU 2....GPU 2 to Black Ice RAD..Then back to RES. Thank you
It'll work, and looks like a nice set up. However; the AMD FX cpus are notorious for being heat monsters especially when overclocked, and a single loop probably won't provide enough cooling, especially with two GTX680s (that let's face it, you're probably going to overclock). Just my insight, but i would have two dedicated loops or a third Radiator.
If I changed to 2 loops and used the 240mm RAD at top of case for CPU/NB and a second loop for the GPU's using the 420 RAD, do you think that would work better or still need another RAD?
You'll be fine with a single loop as you're over-radded for your heat load anyway. 2 x D5 will give plenty of flow rate as well has having redundancy in the case of a pump failure. However the Black Ice Rad you've chosen has quite a high fins per inch (fpi) and would benefit from high speed fans. The Aerocool 1500rpms are the minimum I'd consider on that rad and you won't have the option to slow them down and still get good cooling. The Black Ice SR1 420 has a lower fpi and would give you more flexibility for lower speed fans and still provide good cooling with higher speed fans. Cooling your chipset is likely to mean a few tight bends so I'd consider 3/8"ID, 5/8"OD tubing and fittings as you'll get better bend radius compared to 1/2"ID, 3/4"OD.
680's run cool, use the smaller rad for these on one loop ? Leaving the larger rad for the HOT CPU on the second loop ? dunx
These are all good suggestion. I was also contemplating using a Danger Den Rad housing and put 3 360mm rad in it and using 1 for CPU and NB and 2 for GPU's.....or maybe other way around. Since this will sit outside the case what pumps would you suggest? maybe 2 of the pumps I have listed above or something different?
Sounds overkill, the closer to ambient you drop the coolant the less heat you can dissipate, although you may not need any fans that way... IMHO dunx
I think at this point I will use the origenal set up but make it 2 loops and use the big rad for the CPU/NB and the small for the GPU's. I will have to change my RES and Pumps but I can get the same pumps mounted on a dual bay res so that should work. I want to put a Fan Cooler on my RAM....Corsiar DDR3 2133 Vengance. Does anyone make a cooler for this, I can only find for the Dominator series of Ram.
Unless you're folding a single loop is more effective plus having the second pump in the same loop gives redundancy. Swiftech carried out some research on this with the overview here and the White Paper here I'm currently running a single loop with a couple of pumps and 7 blocks with 3 rads. You'd find a fan is more effective than a block on the RAM but it doesn't need it anyway and is really only for 'bling'. There's various options for RAM cooling some of which are here You might have difficulty removing the heat sinks from the Vengeance RAM and it might be easier although not cheaper to switch to the Dominator GT RAM to get a decent block with less restrictive flow.
