Setting up a watercooled pc

[Deceit]

Hi, i've been setting up a watercooled pc and was just wondering with my set up so far which parts would I be better off with.

I bought a xigmatek utgard case, an apogee gt block, 240mm swiftech rad, swiftech mirco reservoir and plenty of compressions fittings, silver kill coil, dye and water. The pc its going to be cooling is an i7 950 and a single 5850. Would I get away with just putting in a second rad a 140mm rad or should I put in a 140mm rad and move the 240mm rad to the drive bays then put a 280 rad into the top compartment?

Also would this http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=11512&cat=0&page= be a good choice of pump to use with my setup?

 

[Squirrel-666]

i have a utgard also mate a 280 or 240 rad fits up top nicely i did find that the mounting holes for rad are 20mm not 15mm but if u use the brackets for the 240 its fine.i dont think the case will accept a 140 rad as its mostly 120 apart from bottom althought i do know a 120 rad will fit internally on push pull and the 240 fits up top nicely.

240 internal.

120 internal

hope this helps

 

[ChrisGT]

I also have the utgard case. You can fit upto a 46mm thick 240 or 280 rad uptop. So you can't throw a nice beefy rad up there but the swiftech are thin anyways. You can move the HDD bays up and you can run a push pull 120 up front.

 

[Deceit]

Yea the pics really help, I never taught of putting it on the exhaust port where it is in that one, would be a good place. I was thinking of a 280 in the roof, a 140 in front of the psu (plenty of space as psu is small) and the build a bracket to hold the 240 in the drive area and just use 1 disk drive and 2hds so there will be plenty of space then. This is a pic of planning what way to route the tubing while waiting on my bits like fittings, cpu block screws and xspc tubing etc to come from specialtech to come. Also this is a temp board incase I break anything while am building the loop, proper board will be a p6x58d-e and my other 6gb ram.

 

[Deceit]

I just set it up like this until I get my second rad and waterblock for the gpu. Would there be anything wrong with it this way? Colour should have been orange btw, no idea why it turned mostly green. I am leak testing it at the moment thats why the wires are messy, only took the kitchen roll out to take the pic. The 90Deg bends also I ordered silver ones by mistake will replace them with black ones soon when ordering my other bits.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Youll need a MINIMUM of a second thick 240mm rad in the front of the case, the roof cant really take a full sized 240mm. The thinner rads will just about cooler your CPU and the second rad is to help cope with the GPU and allow for a larger ambient overhead.

 

[Stryker64]

TTL do you think a single thick 120mm rad is enough for a 6970? Like along the lines of a XSPC RX120?

 

[Deceit]

Youll need a MINIMUM of a second thick 240mm rad in the front of the case, the roof cant really take a full sized 240mm. The thinner rads will just about cooler your CPU and the second rad is to help cope with the GPU and allow for a larger ambient overhead.

Thanks, I will try put a thick 280mm rad in the front then and I will replace the top 240mm one with a slightly thicker 280mm rad. Would it be a good idea to put a third rad in which would be a thick 140mm rad which would be put right in front of the res?

 

[marick626]

Youll need a MINIMUM of a second thick 240mm rad in the front of the case, the roof cant really take a full sized 240mm. The thinner rads will just about cooler your CPU and the second rad is to help cope with the GPU and allow for a larger ambient overhead.

Hey Tom,

Could you refer me to a video or make a video on Water cooling? You seem to know allot but there are just way to many components to a water cooling setup that it just goes way over my head. I have seen videos on youtube but none that are as well "filmed" as your videos.

 

[Aurus_OC]

Hey Tom,

Could you refer me to a video or make a video on Water cooling? You seem to know allot but there are just way to many components to a water cooling setup that it just goes way over my head. I have seen videos on youtube but none that are as well "filmed" as your videos.

He has already done a Beginner's guide to watercooling. Just search for "Beginner's Guide to Watercooling". It's a two parts, each 30 minutes, if I remember correctly. So that will give you some input

 

[lasher]

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/topic/31280-beginners-guide-to-water-cooling/