Water Cooling Advice

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AxJaWz

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Hey, I currently have my i5 760 overclocked at 3.8Ghz on a Corsair A70 CPU cooler. The temps are safe, but not ideal for long life. I decided to take a look at water cooling...

I have a HAF 932 Advanced case.

I was thinking of either:

360 rad on top, 140 rad on back,

240 rad on top, 140 rad on back,

Which would be ideal and would these two choices (with good pump, res and waterblock) have a massive impact on performance.

Any advice on components is welcome!

Thanks!
 
andrewmchugh said:
A single 240 will do the job, I would get the RASA maybe you get 360 rad fans pump everything you need.

I have an ek 360 which is about the same as the rasas 360 rad, and that cools my i7 920 and 580 perfectly.
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What kind of temps do you get on load? Is your i7 overclocked?
 
andrewmchugh said:
Intel say 72 is the max for that cpu tho mate. mine is 100
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100 for a 920? It says on a couple of other posts that the safe temp is around 75-80.

Well surely it must improve on my A70. i5 do generally run cooler as there is no hyper-threading for the i7=5 quad cores.
 
Ahh yes. I forgot, you have a 580 on there as well. Thats why
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. Thanks!
 
AxJaWz said:
Ahh yes. I forgot, you have a 580 on there as well. Thats why
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. Thanks!
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I dunno its not that bad really the 580 that has WCed very well, 27C Idle 40 load

i just based the 100 of TJmax on core temp, I imagine thats the temp where its melts.

intels site says TMAX 72 for your processor and 67 for mine, so scratch that 72 max temp thats BS! sorry about that
 
AxJaWz said:
Most likely. I just have to choose a good pump now...

Thanks again!
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You get a pump mate! You just need the liquid(mayham pure H20), Biocide (PTnuke/ mayhem do it not sure on name) and a killcoil. special tech have all that.

mayham pure H20 - http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/Mayhems-Ultra-Pure-H20-Water--1-Litre-pid-12494.html

biocide - http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/cus...r-PT-10ml-Concentrated-Biocide-pid-13667.html

killcoil - http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/Pulse-Modding-999-Silver-Kill-Coil-pid-13036.html
 
AxJaWz said:
Well, I might get the RS or RX 360...
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The RX rad is a 2x the price and I don't think its got 2x the performance. I was going to get it but I thought bugger it im keeping the £50 difference

.. Mines custom loop and it cost far too much heres a pic..

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Yeah. I am getting the RS with blue fluid. Nice rig btw. Spotted the 2 SSD's behind the mobo tray. Good idea!
 
AxJaWz said:
Yeah. I am getting the RS with blue fluid. Nice rig btw. Spotted the 2 SSD's behind the mobo tray. Good idea!
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cool stuff, make sure the dye is mayhem's any other premix/dye is trash.

I would get the pure h20 and the blue dye and then you can mix it to your liking!

What other components are you getting?
 
AxJaWz said:
Yeah will be sure to do that. How will I mix it with the dye?
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In the bottle or in the loop. In the loop I would run the pump only and let it mix round drop by drop taking my time,

Mayhems website said:
1. Clean water cooling loop before use

2. Fill water cooling loop with cooling fluid

3. Add the dye 1 drop at a time and let it circulate around the water cooling loop.

4. Check the consistency and more as necessary.
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