Confused about water cooling please help....

Evd-Burner

I wanna go water cooling pretty soon, hopefully going to be a xmas present from my parents but i dont knoiw how to go about installing it as i have alot of ideas in my head, can ye post a few pics of yer water cooling setups so i can get a good idea of what to do, also can anybody recomend a good wter cooling kit for around 200???

Cheers for any advice....

Endurance Man

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Few pics of mine . Do you want to wc the graphics card and processor? HiTide have some good kits but would need to no what hardware you have first. As long as you take your time it really isnt that hard .

Jammer

The swiftech Apex kit from OCUK looks the business, and it's getting good reviews from the usual reliable sources.

hopeful

Similar setup to the previous post.
Asetek kit plus a GPU block from HiTide in a nice shiney Stacker case.

Endurance Man

Hopeful, you should flip that rad around and drill 2 holes for the hose connections, would make the hosing a lot shorter

Evd-Burner

what kind of power does the pump use? is this a good kit?

Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Water Cooler

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=8939&type=6&path=14x122x8951

Endurance Man

Evd-Burner wrote:

what kind of power does the pump use? is this a good kit?

Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Water Cooler

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=8939&type=6&path=14x122x8951

Had a look around and its getting good reveiws . Most will tell you to build a custom setup but for a first time i went for a small kit. Not sure about putting a fan over the cpu block, might just add to the noise. Do you just want to cool the CPU?

Evd-Burner

I would also like to cool the gpu so was just going to buy another rad and fan and some tubing to do this and raise my computer with some feet and the mount the all at thew bottom of the case to make it look good and then the hot air will go out of the case, i would mount them at the top of the case but i dont have enough room anymore......

hopeful

Endurance Man wrote:

Hopeful, you should flip that rad around and drill 2 holes for the hose connections, would make the hosing a lot shorter

::Note to self:: Forward planning is always good:D

This is on my 'To Do' list. Unfortunately my wife got hold of this list and added more 'important' things for me to be doing...like working and feeding the children. I mean...can she not prioritise?:rolleyes:

Endurance Man

hopeful wrote:

::Note to self:: Forward planning is always good:D

This is on my 'To Do' list. Unfortunately my wife got hold of this list and added more 'important' things for me to be doing...like working and feeding the children. I mean...can she not prioritise?:rolleyes:

Hahah, Ye, those "other" priorities can suck .

I would also like to cool the gpu so was just going to buy another rad and fan and some tubing to do this and raise my computer with some feet and the mount the all at thew bottom of the case to make it look good and then the hot air will go out of the case, i would mount them at the top of the case but i dont have enough room anymore......

What case do you have? Important that you plan it out properly or you gonna run into all sorts of problems. Is your case on carpet? If it is the fans are just gonna be sucking up a ****e load of dust. You will get tons of ideas if you flip through a few case gallerys online.

http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=76

Go there^^ and have a look at the gallerys as well as a few work logs, will give you loads of ideas .

Evd-Burner

Ive only just bought this case recently, at the time wasnt planning on going water cooling but with a presscot i just dont have a choice at all, i mite just mount it at the back of the case..... but i dont know which way the fan blows so i have to c 1st, i can always twist it ti the way i want.....

pH

When did peats get so cheap?

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=8939&type=6&path=14x122x8951
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=314359&cks=PRL

I had in my mind that peats were 30%+ dearer than any decent online retailer, but here they're kicking Komplett's butt! Has Komplett got expensive or has Peats gotten cheap?

DemonOfTheFall

It's only a €15 difference in fairness. Sometimes komplett does have the odd strangely high price though, for sure. Generally cheap but sometimes they are a rip, and peats will be cheaper, even in the shop. Pretty rare though.

Make sure that youre looking at the inc. vat price on peat's site. always gets me...

That coolermaster aquagate mini might be a better bet to save a few bob, it got very good reviews.

Evd-Burner

Holy **** has anybody seen the deal peats are doing for a prebuild i have to say its pretty goof value when u had all the prices up seperatly


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Abit A8N-SLI Motherboard
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7.1 Channel Onboard Sound with Digital In & Out
SATA 2, SATA Raid
Up to 4GB of Dual Channel DDR400 Memory
Cool Surface Mounted LED's
Gigabyte Water Cooling
Complete Stability and Overclocking potential
Cool UV Reactive Tubing and LED's
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Hiper Modular 580W Power Supply
Coolermaster CMStacker Tower

DemonOfTheFall

How much ? Can't find it on their site... Looks good apart from onboard sound, YUCK!

Jammer

I have the above mentioned Swiftech Apex 'Extreme Duty' on its way to me. The reviews thus far are saying its the best kit of its kind on the market today.

Will report back when it arrives!

BeatFreak

I've got a few pics of my setups here on

overclocking.ie

Currently working on an Antec P180 with two Swifttech watercooling loops.

It's really not that hard, especially with the likes of Asetek kits it's more or less plug and play

Evd-Burner

two grand