350D Water Cooling Help

[TheUnkn0wn]

I decided I would move to water cooling to push my hardware to its limits while also being aesthetically pleasing.

The problem, 350D - limited space although its definitely possible.

Here's what I've come up with, please note that this is my first water build and the purpose of this post is to make sure I'm doing it correctly.

EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy (G1/4") - £49.99 - 2 Fittings
EK Water Blocks EK-FC7990 SE - Nickel (G1/4") - £114.95 - 2 Fittings
10W DDC Pump & EK-DDC X-RES 100 (G1/4") - £89.99 - 2 Fittings
XSPC EX280 x 2 (G1/4") = £44.99 x 2 (£89.98) - 4 Fittings
EK-CSQ Fitting 10/13mm G1/4 - Black x 10 - £2.99 x 10 (£29.90)
Primochill Primoflex Advanced Tubing 13/10 1M x 2 - Clear - £5.99 (£11.98)
Mayhems Pastel Ice White 1L - £12.49

My questions :

1. Are my fittings and tubing correct? (Should be hopefully)
2. Will I need more than 1L of coolant? (I'm guessing I will)
3. Will two XSPC EX280's suffice in cooling a 4770K + 7990? If not I have just enough room for a single 120 radiator, should I buy that as well?
4. What would the best loop be? e.g ResPump -> Radiator -> CPU -> Radiator -> GPU?
5. Are there any precautions or any useful advice you would like to give from experience?

Btw, I will be using Corsair AF140 fans since I already have them in my case.

Thanks!

 

[Surfie]

At the outset: I have not completed my first loop yet either, but I do know what is involved...

1. Unless you have made a typo somewhere, no, the tube sizes are reversed in the Tubing compared to the fittings...
2. Not sure. With 2 Rads, possibly.
3. 2 EX280s should be enough for the card/CPU. I'm not 100% but I would think even 1 EX280 would be enough (but not much headroom for anything else then). Avoid 120 single fan rads - they complicate the loop (making it hard to look good) and rarely perform well enough to justify this complication.
4. Whatever looks the best. Optimized loops will be a little cooler (4 degrees or so maybe at most) but (generally) will look ugly as sin.
5. Read the beginners guide (and watch the videos) stickyed in the Liquid Cooling section of these forums. Make certain that the pump is being fed by the res and that the pump is primed for use prior to turning it on.

Good luck with it!

 

[S_I_N]

seriously doubt 2 ex280s will be enough to as you say push the limits on a 4770k and a 7990 might be ok for mild oc's but not limit pushing oc's unless your not worried about temps then of course why water cool it lol. My rig is currently a 2600K with 2 7970's in xfire basically the same as your but with a cooler cpu to start with and I'm sporting 420mm and 280mm rads idle temps 31c on gpus and 34c on cpu fans on low. Cpu oc'd to 4.5 @1.35vcore gpus oc'd via bios change to GHz bios 1050/1500 but with lower volts havent really seen the need to oc them any further as they slay any game out currently.

loop order as said not a real issue as long as rez feeds pump ur good.

fittings its a no brainer mate if you use 13mm od 10mm id tubing get 13mm od 10mm id fittings assuming your talking compressions.

coolant I always buy extra so I'm sure not to run out. But again I use distilled water and it comes in 1gal jugs. the coolant you chose is more for a show rig than everyday use my suggestion us coloered tubing and forget mayhems coolants.

cautions and advice best I can give is read everything you can watch every vid you can and then go back and do it at least once more if not more. even after all that you may still have questions and make a mistake. Its not rocket science in any way shape or form. Just plan it and have extra parts on hand because something is bound not to fit the way you want and you'll be stuck waiting on more parts. Hell I have a big box of extra swivels and fittings because I ordered at least 2 of each extra just in case.

 

[TheUnkn0wn]

Thanks for the replies, I guess I'll have to figure out a way to fit a bigger rad in my case. My HDD's are the problem though, they are getting in the way of the front radiator. I suppose I could invent a HDD mount to mount them vertically?

Is a DDC pump suitable for this loop? CPU and GPU?

Oh, and I think I will just use distilled water and white tubing, too many problems with colourings.

 

[airdeano]

ive been trying the same on the 350D chassis and for the single GPU solution it is
a slim margin to make it run. limited to the thin radiator in the roof and a fan set the
front intake with a 60/80 does well. with your GPU, you might run into a noise issue
if your temperatures are not acceptable on the GPU. CPU should be acceptable with
a large skilled overclock.
once I get this ironed out, time to SLI/CFX and i doubt i'll be a happy camper with
the temps/noise, because of the weak roof support. i came from an arc mini,
thinking with a bit more room, but finding out, that is not the case (pun).

 

[TheUnkn0wn]

The length of the 7990 really limits the space for the front radiator. I'm hoping to get a 1300/1650 overclock on the 7990 and push my 4770k to 4.8, I doubt that's going to happen though.

 

[TheUnkn0wn]

Looks like I'll be getting two 240's since two 280's wont fit

Also, will a single DDC pump be enough for this loop?