Beginner Water Cooling

Vade

Hey guys and girls,

I'm hoping someone could help me out with some information on water cooling, I recently built my PC but due to budget restraints the cooling had to put off until now. I was toying with the idea of an AIO watercooler, the Kraken X60 to be exact, but now I am very tempted to try out a custom loop, thanks in no small part to Squaredude.

I've found a beginner kit, http://www.ekwb.com/shop/kits-cases/kits/ek-kit-h3o-240-hfx.html , but since I have no experience in this I can't say if it is any good. I've tried doing a bit of research but there is so much info out there on water cooling that I'm flooded with info (no pun intended, but still I chuckled)

If anyone with a bit of experience with this could cast an eye over the kit and give their opinion or even suggest something better I would appreciate it.

Right now the budget is around €250ish and I just want to begin with cooling the CPU, GPU will be done at a later date when funds (read missus) permits.

Cheers!

game4it70

That kit is a good start and the price is decent enough.

Its hard to give advice on WC bar do lots of research.Google the case you have and WC to look at peoples builds to get an idea of what fits in your case.
Plan the layout of where you want to place rad,res and pump to make sure things fit.

You can get bay res if your stuck for space as opposed to a tube res in that kit.
If your looking to add a Gpu to the loop at a later stage i'd say add another 120 rad to give you a bit of thermal headroom.

Let us know what case you have and what cpu and possible gpu you want to WC.
Also do you have the cpu overclocked?

What are you looking for the WC to be as in silence,performance or a mixture of both?

Ask me any questions you want and i'll do my best to answer them for you.

Vade

Hey thanks for the reply,

The case is the Phantom 630 and the CPU is i5 4670k (3.4GHz), the CPU isn't overclocked as right now it's running on the stock cooler but I'll do so once the new cooling is in. As for the GPU I'm currently using a 560ti and will be left with this for a while until I can gather the money for a 780.

In terms of what I want out of the cooling I'd probably say I'm aiming for a mixture of both performance and silence, the noise off the computer has never bothered me.

Nibs05

Have a look at these to, lots of YouTube videos about installation and reviews, also sell gpu and ram blocks.

http://www.xs-pc.com/watercooling-kits/

Vade

Damn you Nibs05! Now I have more choices to make :P

Nibs05

Xspc kits from reading about them myself seem easy to install for beginners, they look pretty awesome in a window case and will allow for expansion if your case can accommodate, if you plan to cool a gpu and a cpu bare in mind you may need a additional 120mm rad in your loop, lots off videos as I said, and what I generally do is read the instructions online to see if it really is easy as it is to install