Beginners Guide To Water Cooling

[DIGITALI5]

what do you guys think of the XSPC kits? like the one used above?

 

[Murphyslaw]

Great guide, helped me get my system watercooled, well at least the CPU... only I got a larger radiator.

Now planning on changing it a bit.

Thanks for that guide that helped me out TTL

 

[Rolyin]

I am looking at the xspc rasa 750 rs240 kit, has anyone got any views on this kit?

 

[zorin1]

All,

I need some advice on my temps. I have an Asus P8Z77-v mother board with the 3570K CPU. I have an Antec Kuhler h20 930 liquid cooler on it.

I have overclocked the CPU a little 41 X 103 with stock voltage. The machine is mostly used by my kids so I want to use as less power as possible but keep the performance as best as I can.

I have run prime95 for about 30 mins and my temps were around 67. I thought that this was a little high so I changed out the thermal paste. Now my max temps are around 69.

I am using AC5. I have tried a few different ways of putting it on. I spread it over the cpu with a thin layer, this gave me higher temps. I then did an X which gave me the max 69.

My question is are these numbers to high? I was just expected lower temps.

Thanks

Matt

 

[tinytomlogan]

A: arctic silver is old now. - Get MX4 or Noctua paste and just stick a pea sized lump in the middle.

B: the antec unit is shit.

C: stock volts means auto which also means they can go up by themselves you have to MANUALLY set the volts.

D: set the bclk to 100 - set the volts to 1.2 and start again from scratch from a multi of 35

 

[zorin1]

A: arctic silver is old now. - Get MX4 or Noctua paste and just stick a pea sized lump in the middle.

B: the antec unit is shit.

C: stock volts means auto which also means they can go up by themselves you have to MANUALLY set the volts.

D: set the bclk to 100 - set the volts to 1.2 and start again from scratch from a multi of 35

Do you think my temps are bad? I will order some MX-4 and give that a try. If I set the volts then it won't go down, the whole idea is to save on power since the kids mostly play web games.

Matt

 

[painejake]

This has convinced me to WC during my next upgrade process

 

[kickingsaturday]

cool is the only way , I wonder about 2020 I hope we kick it right

 

[XtremePhysX]

I watched these before I build my old rig, really helpful, thanks Tom.

 

[kyuzkyuz]

Woah, thanks. I was very curious about this water cooling thing. I'm very new at this and those videos helped a lot.
Just wanted to give my thanks for all the work.

 

[TAWN]

Watched, learnt, gonna save and give it a go.

 

[HulkUk]

great guide, something that i have looked at doing before but look at it and think thats to much work but after watching that seems a lot easy something i will do some point

 

[nikefox]

great guide!. will definitely try water cooling someday...

 

[USAdystopia]

When bleeding the system how is the air bubble removed if radiator is closed? Does it end up in the top of the reservoir?

 

[jamesriley94]

When bleeding the system how is the air bubble removed if radiator is closed? Does it end up in the top of the reservoir?

Over time they tend to get push round the loop and back to the reservoir.

If you run the case upside-down, then any air trapped inside should make its way to the reservoir as air rises, so just keep tipping it up until it's all drained.

 

[2Dcypher]

Not so much a watercooling noob as Zalman have some good responsive stuff and my first WC build was the massive Resorator, oldy but goldy!
Stuck to high heavens about what CPU and possible Mosfet solution I should get after watch a second time tinytomlogans COSMOS 2 full review.
I would rather the radiator be a roof fix with fans underneath the rad. and 3 outside the case under the grill SO, What rad. to buy? :huh:

 

[Cru]

Not so much a watercooling noob as Zalman have some good responsive stuff and my first WC build was the massive Resorator, oldy but goldy!
Stuck to high heavens about what CPU and possible Mosfet solution I should get after watch a second time tinytomlogans COSMOS 2 full review.
I would rather the radiator be a roof fix with fans underneath the rad. and 3 outside the case under the grill SO, What rad. to buy? :huh:

i am not exactly sure what your actual question is lol
maybe create a thread and explain everything with more detail

 

[2Dcypher]

i am not exactly sure what your actual question is lol
maybe create a thread and explain everything with more detail

Already did, but i tend to go off topic:
* what are the radiators best suited to COSMOS 2 case with a sabertooth X79 fitted?

 

[You_What?]

Got lots of reading to do, I'll add this to that list, thanks TTL!

 

[Montysaurus]

These vids are so good, they are used as demo's by XSPC and SpecialTech and are invaluable if like me you are venturing into water cooling for the first time. Great job TTL!