Watercooling What pumps to get?

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  1. luker

    luker What's a Dremel?

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    hi im going to run two loops
    1st 2 x 360 rads+ cpu (2500k)
    2nd 2 x 360 rads + 560 sli
    can any one tell me what pumps would be best thanks
     
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  2. mars-bar-man

    mars-bar-man Side bewb.

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    Laing DDC or Laing D5.
     
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  3. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Probably Laing DDCs, because they are relatively quiet. D5's are more powerful than you need, and two of them would get fairly noisy.
     
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  4. luker

    luker What's a Dremel?

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    many thanks should i leave them standard or with modded tops
     
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  5. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    Depends what kind of loop you want - restops are popular for simplifying the system and providing a good choice of barbs.
     
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  6. GeorgeStorm

    GeorgeStorm Aggressive PC Builder

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    DDCs are a good shout
    However, why on earth have you got your rads setup like that?
    Neither loop would need 2 360s.
    Better to save your money and upgrade the gpus or something
     
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  7. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    Good point, I didn't even look at the rad setup. Unless you're going with super silent mega low-flow fans then 4x360's is total overkill. :p
     
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    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    What radiators are you using? I run both my Core2Quad and my 5870 off one XSPC RX360 and the temps are low, very low. And my whole system is quiet.

    You could run all of that off one rx360 with a D5 easily...
     
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  9. luker

    luker What's a Dremel?

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    thanks for advice will stick with just 2 rads
     
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  10. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Which rads are you using? As if they're the double thick ones like the XSPC RX series then you'll only need one :)
     
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  11. dead beat

    dead beat Rippin six 4 life

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    I run two overclocked GTX 580's off a single XSPC RX360 rad and my temps have never been higher than 56 degrees even under full load.
     
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  12. Nexxo

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    ^^^ The man speaketh the truth. I run two Opteron 250's (89W each) and an ATi Radeon 1650 (50W) on a single BIX. Temps stay nicely in the 45C range.

    People always overestimate the size of radiator needed.
     
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  13. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Someone needs an upgrade... :p
     
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