need help for watercooling

matas17

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For a while i had my AMD 4130 processor water cooled on 120mm rad but now I got 2011 board with Intel i7 3930k and im in need of help to find a 240mm/360mm rad for my NZXT Switch 810 case, i wanna get serious with watercooling but im kind of beginner on it. I want to watercool my whole system from my x2 EVGA GeForce GTx 660's to my 3930K CPU but im bad at selecting watercooling stuff at the minute because i only bought watercooling kit. Bt i want to get more specific now with Nice waterblock, etc. So please help me out here. I i still wantto keep my colour scheme as it is now Black/Blue/White. Dont want some Red fitting or something similair. Would prefer to be colours which i listed out.
Also if anyone asks what my budget is its around 300 pounds currently, could go up to 350 or 370 if required

Thank you for your Time and for responses.
 
You aren't realistically going to be able to cool a CPU and 2 GPUs on £370.

Rough guide for a part list though:
D5 + suitable pump top or reservoir - XSPC do a couple of bay reservoirs to fit a D5 which are pretty good.
Then you'll need a CPU waterblock - XSPC Raystorm is a good choice, but Alphacool have some decent blocks too.
GPU blocks - you won't be too spoiled for choice with 660s, but you should be getting full cover blocks - EK do a couple.
Rad wise, you'll be best with a 60mm 360 in the roof, and a 240mm in the floor (again, preferably 60mm thick).

Then tubing and fittings.

Chances are though, that will be over your budget - so you may want to just do the CPU loop, leave out the GPUs and the 240mm rad, and then upgrade later.
 
ill be doing different loop for gpu's, cpu will be cooled by 240mil rad and two gpu's by 360 rad or other way around but it depends. Because i know i ownt be able to cool cpu and gpu's with one loop so i want to do second loop, i already got everything set up inside the case and i know where everything will go, but now i need help to find perfect components with colour scheme black, blue and white.

Thank you

i know i already got gpu blocks, but now i only need the cpu stuff and two rads ofcourse with all tubing, pump and reservoir. thats why im saying i got 300 quid budget could go up to 400 if needed only for X2 Rads, pump, reservoir or even two, tubing, fittings and other required stuff.
 
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Can't have a single loop?
Not sure what you mean by that...

A D5 pump is easily capable of running 3 blocks and 2 rads.

Keep it simple, go with a single loop, and keep it tidy.
 
id follows Toms and james' advise.. keep it simple and itll function epically.
dual loops start to look like a spagetti factory blew-up and you get to monitor
two systems instead of one and if a pump fails or stops working you are gunna
get hot. there is no edge or reason to use a dual loop with tech like it is, today.
for a fail-safe, use a dual D5 for redundancy.

for that price point you are looking at, (would have been nice to know in the opening
post) it could be done.
 
I just need help in selecting parts for the loop because sinse the gpu block are out of the way i only need two rads, pump, tubing, reservoir and fitting. So if anyone could help me out find these components it would really be helpful.

But even if i did dual loops i already got everything set up you would only see tubes coming to gpu's and cpu because tubing would be hidding kind of in a front bay where these is that plate which cant be removed for CD ROM. I removed that plate myself so i could hide the tubing
 
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