Beginner into water cooling

[brandonf12]

Hey everybody I've got a few questions I have a corsiar H50 right now in my system and I have fans as well in there. What I want to do is get it water cooled but when I look at certain systems that are avalaible they seem more complicated then its worth can anybody reccomend a system that works good and is easy to install. Also what can I expect with water cooling with my system I just don't want to get something that's going to break down my system in 6 months.

Thank you in advance

 

[hmmblah]

Either go with a real custom kit or get the Noctua NH-D14 air cooler. If you can't invest the time and money into a real water cooling solution, don't waste your time. The Noctua will outperform the H50. Only thing that really beats the Noctua is a good custom solution where you spend $300+.

 

[brandonf12]

Well money really isn't an object I ultimately want to do water cooling I just need help on what to buy and what's the best out there on a video where tiny tom logan said that there's a solution where you add dropps into the custom solution and it makes it stronger or weaker

What do you reccomend in tubes pumps resivores and radiators and everything if I can get a custom part by part or a whole kit is great

 

[tinytomlogan]

The drops are just to add colour the coolant dude?

 

[brandonf12]

Yeah what's that solution called on your water cooling video

 

[brandonf12]

It was on the first video you talked so highly of the solution

 

[rjay410]

What to expect from water cooling depends on what your cooling how many components, Then you have to make sure your case has proper air flow or you will get heat build up in one spot vs another. also no matter what system you get or how many radiators you have it will not cool any lower then the ambient temp in your room or case depending on how u have it set up intake or exhaust. you will have to have a certain amount of radiators to cool your components. example if u have 1 120 radiator now cooling your cpu and it dose good and want to cool your video card as well you will probably have to add at least 1 240 radiator to the loop as well again just an example.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Any coolant will be fine dude there is very little difference.

 

[brandonf12]

I know I'm a very big noob on this area but what is a loop and how is it accomplished to hook two radiators together rjay if that's what you ment could you clarify that for me

Tiny tom logan what collant would you reccomend? I was thinking some thermaltake coolant

 

[brandonf12]

im sorry i asked i didnt know

 

[tinytomlogan]

Thermaltake is not a brand I will ever put in the same sentance as water cooling. Their kits are horendous and the coolant is over priced. Only buy products froma decent watercooling store like SpecialTech

 

[rjay410]

hey sorry my computer crashed last night i pushed my processor to far but if u wanna really get into water cooling its kinda hard to explain but i found a guy that goes into some good detail about water cooling systems so go to this link and read it i know some u probably wont understand but its very detailed piece by piece breakdown of water cooling system.

link- http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54331

 

[brandonf12]

THANK SO MUCH RJAY

 

[rjay410]

no problem thats what were here for

 

[CRAZYCAP]

Rjay thanks for the link. That is a very informative (written version) of setting up water cooling. Between that article and the videos TTL did recently, I think anybody who has any questions should find the answers between the 2.