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233Kosta
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It's a 360x60 radiator. Any 360x60 is overkill, but good ones off the top of my head are XSPC, EK, Phobya, AlphaCool, and a few others I can't remember, maybe someone can remind me.
You don't need the NF-F12s, a set of SP120QEs will do just fine. They are somewhat quieter, so with a fan resistor should run completely silent, and will do the job pretty well for you, even if you throw a graphics card in the loop at some point.
With pumps, basically the best thing you can get is a D5. Plenty of reservoirs available to suit your taste (bay, tube, etc). I have an XSPC 750 dual bay pump-res, it does the job, though it's not liking the GPU block and all the fittings I've got in my loop, so I'm going to get a D5 at some point (hopefully).
The res is pretty much your choice as far as I'm aware, saw a small tube D5 pump top/res combo by EK on specialtech earlier today, I think it'll do the job nicely. If you want something bigger - you can throw a longer cylinder on it and that should have you sorted
. Or you could get a bay res, depending on which look you like better. I like the bay reservoirs for ease of installation, but the clips to hold a tube res in place are fairly cheap as well and you can stick the thing pretty much anywhere you like in your case, so especially if you like the look of a tube res, it offers more customisability. Have a think on it and see what you'd like.
233Kosta
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They should be selling brackets for this stuff.
Here's one by Pulse Modding. Out of stock on specialtech, but aquatuning should have one. Here's an Alphacool one, it should fit any 120 or 140 mm fan. They have the same one on Aquatuning too. How exactly that gets mounted to the floor I'm not sure of. Here is the product page of that small tube res I mentioned earlier, one of the pictures shows it mounted to what appears to be the 140mm fan mount at the back of the HDD cage of a HAF X, and it's page on specialtech confirms a bracket is included. I imagine other D5 accessories come with mounting systems too, so that's not something I'd worry about.
Have a look through the res sections on specialtech and aquatuning (and any other good places chaps here would suggest, I only know these two
) and see what you like, and then we'll take it from there.
Here's one by Pulse Modding. Out of stock on specialtech, but aquatuning should have one. Here's an Alphacool one, it should fit any 120 or 140 mm fan. They have the same one on Aquatuning too. How exactly that gets mounted to the floor I'm not sure of. Here is the product page of that small tube res I mentioned earlier, one of the pictures shows it mounted to what appears to be the 140mm fan mount at the back of the HDD cage of a HAF X, and it's page on specialtech confirms a bracket is included. I imagine other D5 accessories come with mounting systems too, so that's not something I'd worry about.
Have a look through the res sections on specialtech and aquatuning (and any other good places chaps here would suggest, I only know these two
) and see what you like, and then we'll take it from there.NeverBackDown
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Can't use a 120mm fan on a 420mm rad. Better off with a XSPC kit as i said earlier just as a proper/new start into watercooling. Then later on go crazy... Oh and about the overkill thing... More is always better than not enough.
son of spanner
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yeah overkill rules 
NeverBackDown
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Yes that's the one.. except it has the 750pump. While it's great for a CPU only loop it's not strong enough to handle anything more than that. So OP needs to keep this in mind if he decides on expanding his loop.
NeverBackDown
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No just get a new pump. Though after stressing the 750 for an extended period of time i would start to question it's future reliability. Shouldn't be a problem though.
233Kosta
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It's a sealed unit, can't just replace the pump, the whole res has to go. I'm thinking about a D5 dual bay unit, but I'm not sure whether I want that or a tube res instead, I've got a few ideas about that too.
233Kosta
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It's a bay res, takes up 2 optical bays. I like them because you don't need to get special brackets for them, but as NBD mentioned (and I get to experience first hand), the 750 pump-res (hence the 750 in the name) doesn't really like more than 1 block. It's for you to decide now if in the foreseeable future you'll want to add more to your loop.
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Here's the same kit with a D5 pump-res. Mounts exactly the same way, but will take anything you throw at it. Only problem is it's out of stock at the moment, so you might have to ask specialtech when it'll be in or badger them to get you one. Mounts the exact same way, just has a better pump.
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Here's the same kit with a D5 pump-res. Mounts exactly the same way, but will take anything you throw at it. Only problem is it's out of stock at the moment, so you might have to ask specialtech when it'll be in or badger them to get you one. Mounts the exact same way, just has a better pump.
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NeverBackDown
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It should not pose any problem. Only issue may be the pump not getting fed coolant the whole time but a way to get around it is to leave flat on the bottom and fill it up that way. And then after put it in sideways. Others here have far more exp than I with D5s so they are the ones with the best advice.
Remmy
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As long as the bulk of the coolant remains above the inlet of the pump you should be fine, but otherwise maybe not as there'd be a risk of it running dry or shoving loads of air in the system which other than being a massive pain in the arse to get back out can also damage the pump
NeverBackDown
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Fill up the res completely before installing sideways and won't have an issue.
233Kosta
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The res looks like it could actually be filled on its side, but without seeing how they've set up the inlet, I can't say whether it will have back flow issues or not. The pump shouldn't have issues if there's enough coolant, but if the inlet is at the bottom left, which would become the top left when flipped 90 degrees clockwise, there will certainly be back flow issues, which are annoying at best, detrimental to performance at worst. Perhaps a permanent dedicated fill port, which would take the air out of the reservoir's fill port (well most of it hopefully 
), might just do the job, but it would require the case to be tilted on its side to get the air out into the tube (something many of us do when bleeding anyway).
I think it might just work ^_^
), might just do the job, but it would require the case to be tilted on its side to get the air out into the tube (something many of us do when bleeding anyway).I think it might just work ^_^
