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[adicool96]

Hello guyz and gals,

Im ready to go liquid but as I cant get a good enough chassis or watercooling parts I've decide to order from any good e-tailer store that does international shipping. So I checked out some and I stumbled upon these pre-built watercooling cases : Frozen CPU - http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1...ooled_Full_Tower_Case.html?tl=g1c2s35#options

also

Performance PCs:

http://www.performance-pcs.com/cata...=product_info&cPath=103_193&products_id=28119

Now my question is whether this is wise or should i get my own parts and do it and which one of these is better? It has to cool 3x GTX 580's in SLI a Core i7 980x and R3E.

 

[Bocephus]

I'd get your own case and parts. This way you know how it's put together, how it works, and how to fix / remove / replace. Plus if something goes wrong you don't have to send the whole thing back and wait for RMA or for them to possibly say you did something wrong when you installed your parts and connected to their system...but thats just me.

I dont like to leave things in someone elses hands or principals (or lack there of).

 

[adicool96]

Ok then can u suggest parts to go with a lian li a77f cuz i have no idea appreciate any help.

 

[adicool96]

Anybody. I seriously need the suggestions fast cuz im gonna be wc soon.

 

[Aurus_OC]

Ok then can u suggest parts to go with a lian li a77f cuz i have no idea appreciate any help.

Well first you will need to do some research on how to set up a loop and maintain it if you ever want to change parts. Because if you buy a prebuild one you won't learn how to do it properly and in that way won't know how to fix any problems. TTL's Beginner's guide is always a good place to start your research. However with your kind of case choice you don't want to be using just a 120mm rad.

Before giving any suggestions what parts do you want to watercool? Because this really determines the components that you will need to achieve your goal. Also be prepared for watercooling to be quite expensive to be "worth" the hassle and also to give you better temps than a decent air cooler.

 

[adicool96]

Yup i watche toms guide its real good my plan is to get two 360 rads one in the top and and in the bays the only thing is i need help choosing pumps, reservoirs and all the bits and pieces.

 

[Bocephus]

Ok then can u suggest parts to go with a lian li a77f cuz i have no idea appreciate any help.

Check this out My link before you WC and combine with Toms' vid

 

[Bocephus]

Yup i watche toms guide its real good my plan is to get two 360 rads one in the top and and in the bays the only thing is i need help choosing pumps, reservoirs and all the bits and pieces.

Give us a list of what you want to WC. Here is some of what I posted to beginner water cooler, maybe it will help you also.

What size radiator are you going to run. What is the FPI (fins per square inch). What other water cooling accessories are you going to be using and please say your not going to use one of those ridiculously huge external reservoir cylinders Lol.

You need to plan out every part and accessory.

IMHO...you should start off minimal, a simple beginner system. Use what Tom used in his video, a CPU block, radiator (high air flow mated with a high air flow low RPM quiet fan), a combination pump/reservoir internal or 5.25 bay. If you go with a single or double bay pump/reservoir (I would recommend for first liquid system...just my preference) make sure you use one with a flow indicator.

Using the 5.25 bay pump/reservoir with a flow indicator lets you see at a glance if you liquid is low and more importantly if your system is flowing. Then when you become less paranoid about the flow issue you can change to an inside case type.

Also if you're going to be moving it around much and especially transporting it back and forth to LAN party's stay with air cooling.

For a "simple" liquid cooling loop...IMO 400 should be sufficient, 600 and most definitely 1200 would be overkill. Main thing is make sure whichever Pump you get has the proper head pressure rating.

Most reputable water cooling manufacturers have a configuration App on their site or at-least good support that can help you plan it out.

PS as Tom says have some kitchen paper (Lol...a roll of paper towels) on hand when building. His video would be a good step by step for filling, leak checking and getting rid of those stubborn air bubbles also.

Hope this helped you.

 

[adicool96]

Now my question is whether this is wise or should i get my own parts and do it and which one of these is better? It has to cool 3x GTX 580's in SLI a Core i7 980x and R3E.

I already mentioned what has to be cooled in my 1st post and im not a total noob i have built a cpu only loop but only once before and have done a lot of research on this. As this my first time doing such a big loop i need help with the connectors, reservoir, rads etc. as im not used to wc brands.

Oh yeah forgot to mention im gonna do a double loop one for the cpu and chipset(maybe) and one for the gfx cards.

 

[adicool96]

Bumpin'

 

[ChrisGT]

Give us a list of what you want to WC. Here is some of what I posted to beginner water cooler, maybe it will help you also.

For a "simple" liquid cooling loop...IMO 400 should be sufficient, 600 and most definitely 1200 would be overkill. Main thing is make sure whichever Pump you get has the proper head pressure rating.

400, 600, 1200? lph? or $?

Head really comes into play when you start doing larger loops and at that point you should be doing two separate loops for heat reasons...

 

[marick626]

2 radiators? Adding more radiators won't make your system cooler. The system will only ever get as cold as your room temperature. If you ever want to go below that you need special super cooling such as an evaporator system. You should only consider 2 rads if you are going to do 2 loops and even then, running 2 loops is overkill for everything but the most advanced water cooling setups such as those who want to liquid cool the cpu, motherboard, 4 way sli, PSU, hard drive etc. For just your cpu and GPU one loop will work fine and that means 1 3x120mm radiator. Even then, few cases can fit a radiator that big, much less 2 on top of another, unless you wan't to put the rads outside which would fill them with dust and not make them cool as well. LoL, do some research.

 

[adicool96]

2 radiators? Adding more radiators won't make your system cooler. The system will only ever get as cold as your room temperature. If you ever want to go below that you need special super cooling such as an evaporator system. You should only consider 2 rads if you are going to do 2 loops and even then, running 2 loops is overkill for everything but the most advanced water cooling setups such as those who want to liquid cool the cpu, motherboard, 4 way sli, PSU, hard drive etc. For just your cpu and GPU one loop will work fine and that means 1 3x120mm radiator. Even then, few cases can fit a radiator that big, much less 2 on top of another, unless you wan't to put the rads outside which would fill them with dust and not make them cool as well. LoL, do some research.

Dude i did do my research. If you had read my first post u would have known that i wanna cool 3x gtx 580s an i7 980x a rampage 3 extreme and a gtx 480 (added only this from my first post). So please before posting read. Oh yeah i do wanna run two loops one for pc and mobo and one for the gpus.

 

[ChrisGT]

2 radiators? Adding more radiators won't make your system cooler. The system will only ever get as cold as your room temperature. If you ever want to go below that you need special super cooling such as an evaporator system. You should only consider 2 rads if you are going to do 2 loops and even then, running 2 loops is overkill for everything but the most advanced water cooling setups such as those who want to liquid cool the cpu, motherboard, 4 way sli, PSU, hard drive etc. For just your cpu and GPU one loop will work fine and that means 1 3x120mm radiator. Even then, few cases can fit a radiator that big, much less 2 on top of another, unless you wan't to put the rads outside which would fill them with dust and not make them cool as well. LoL, do some research.

Sure you can watercool everything on one 360 rad guess what? You would have better temps by air cooling..... Do you even know how hot one of those cards get?... nvm three!

I will say this though the op did edit his post because before he said nothing about two loops.