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General Liquid/Water Cooling Discussion For discussion about Full Cooling System kits, or general cooling topics. Keep specific cooling items like pumps, radiators, etc... in their specific forums. |
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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: UK
Posts: 9
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Hey guys and girls, I'm back with yet some more questions hehe!
I have recently started to purchase my water cooling items, bit by bit, I currently have the following items; 10 foot of Tygon Tubing (1/2" ID 11/16" OD), 10 Hose Clamps and a Black Ice Xtreme III Triple 120mm Radiator. I was thinking of my loop for the past few days, and this is my idea of my loop, I basically buy myself an empty ATX case, a new PSU just to power the whole water cooling loop so no power consumption is made on my current PSU so that way I know I wont have a power shortage for my computer/water cooling loop. As for the loop itself, I was thinking of at first having it go in a way like this: PUMP >> RADIATOR >> CPU >> GFX >> RESERVOIR >> PUMP Then the past few days hit me as I work in a plastic injection moulding factory (where we use water to heat and cool the machines as well as oil to heat some tools due to the temperatures of some plastics we have to melt and then mold) that the loop I have in theory will overtime get warmer and warmer in the reservoir internally rising the temps for my CPU and GFX card. So I thought to myself, I can't have that, it's not a wise idea nor a good one if I wish to overclock further... Then it hit me, my new loop idea: PUMP >> Black Ice Xtreme III Triple 120mm Radiator >> CPU >> Black Ice Xtreme II Dual 120mm Radiator >> GFX >> Black Ice Xtreme (Single) 120mm Radiator >> RESERVOIR >> PUMP That in itself describes my new theory on my system, yes it will take some power to run it (at least I'd think so) as I will be wanting to run 6 fans which my choice of fan are these; Delta 120x38mm TFB1212GHE Extreme High Speed (220 CFM). As you can gather, quite powerful hehe! Noisy but that doesn't bother me, what I want is my system to be quite cool on the temps ![]() So, I was wondering if this is a worthy choice of a loop compared to my first choice. If so I'll continue to purchase as stated as personally I think it's not a bad idea this loop, but would like professional help just in case I'm steering down the wrong lane! Thanks for your time and patience with me and my new rant, all the best and take care peeps! --Lee
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- AMD Athlon64 FX-55 2.6Ghz (@2.8Ghz with an XP-90c Heatsink and a modded fan with a max CFM of 72 on it.) - 2.0GB RAM - (2x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR CAS2-3-2-5 OCZ (@3-3-3-6) - MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum m/b - nVidia GeForce XFX 6800 Ultra 256Mb (81.85 WHQL Drivers with an Arctic Silencer NV5 Revision 2 cooler on it.) - 420GB HD Space (1x 120GB SATA + 1x 300GB SATA) - ThermalTake Shark Series Case (Black) - Hyper Type-R 525Watt PSU |
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