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 Posted: Fri, 10th Oct 2014 11:10 Post subject: Watercooling advice & recommendations. |
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Hi all,
I am thinking about switching to watercooling.
Not that I need it, but I'm kinda in a DIY-mood right now and also I wanna see if my PC can be even less noisy.
I have a i3-4130 dual-core at 3.4Ghz with 54 watts TDP
and a GTX 750 Ti Low Profile with 60 watts TDP.
The GPU's coreclock is from 1072 Mhz to 1150Mhz and the memspeed is 1350Mhz.
Because of my case dimensions, I can only fit radiator with maximum width of 80mm inside. Casewidth is 91mm outter limits.
However, my options would be to use one 2x80mm radiator (190x80x46mm). I checked, if I let go of the two front usb ports (still 6 at the back) and front-mic/sound, which I dont need, then I could even fit two of those double 80mm radiators.
The question is, given that I might wanna upgrade to an i5 or i7 some day, is one of those radiators sufficient or should I get two?
It's of copper & messing with high density grill.
Also, what pumps do you recommend for such a lower/mid end watercooling system?
Are those tiny cylinder formed 12V pumps enough or which pumps are good?
Anything else to consider for WC first-timers?
EDIT:
This radiator here:
http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/Wasserkuehlung/Radiatoren/MagiCool/MagiCool-Copper-Radiator-Double-Power-80-mm::5196.html
Although I am not sure if the dimensions in the spec are correct. 190mm lenght on a double 80mm radiator + little space for the tubing intakes... sounds incorrect.
EDIT2: other sites quote the dimensions as 160x113x46mm. Very confusing! I wrote an email to one of the retailers to check what is going on here.
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Stige
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Oct 2014 12:11 Post subject: |
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Last edited by paxsali on Thu, 4th Jul 2024 21:56; edited 1 time in total
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Oct 2014 15:04 Post subject: |
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That PC power consumption is so low that you can do whole system with single high quality 2x80mm rad for sure.
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Oct 2014 16:59 Post subject: |
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I'm cooling CPU (i7 3770k) and 2x GPU (Asus GTX680 DCII Top) (everything OC'd), and for that I use 1x360 and 1x240 rad combined with 2x swiftech mcp35x pumps.
I'm sure 1x 360 rad with 1 pump would be enough, but I like doing everything "overkill".
A single 240 or 280 rad should be enough to cool cpu+gpu, but more is always better, right?
The 160 you talk about will probably do a good job too, but if you can fit 2 of them, do it.
As for pump, I hear the D5 pumps are supposed to be silent and good.
Change some parts (top etc), and it'll perform even better.
Watercooling is great! Once you start, you only want more!
The great joy of not hearing those GPU fans rev up like a F1 race when they get hot. All you hear is the sound of the pump (if you rev it up), and some fan noise if you got noisy fans. Personally I use low rpm Gentle Typhoon fans.
And then the temps are still at around 40 at full load, instead of the 80-90 they used to be. 
I hate you.
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Oct 2014 18:02 Post subject: |
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If you want an awesome thick ass radiator look into the Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta
I got one sitting on the bottom of my case sandwhiched with 2 120mm fans.
If you want high end quality with low end price look into the XSPC Raystorm kits. You won't get the thick ass radiator but it's what my system above is based off of. I just added a GPU and Monsta Rad to the system.
Their 750 pump/res combo that comes with the Raystorm is quiet as all hell and can push quite a bit of water. I've got one pushing all the above and the only thing I can hear is the fans lol.
If you want awesome fans on the cheap, the XSPC Xinruilian 1650 fans push a lot of air and are near dead silent..unless you have a shit load running lol.
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