Liquid Cooling System

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  1. twinblades
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    I have been starting to looking liquid cooling of my CPU and GPU... does anyone have a system that is liquid cooled or has built one before?
     
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    I've built several and would consider myself moderatly experienced in designing and troubleshooting.

    That being said, I'm a huge fan of closed loop cpu coolers. That, however, does not help you because you have a gpu requirement.

    What questions do you have?
     
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    +1 for closed loop cpu coolers.

    I think understanding your goals would be best in order to provide advice. Water cooling is a very vast area. You can get a closed loop cpu cooler, and reliably add 1ghz to a intel chip out of the box with out any fears for the average joe user, or you can go balls to the wall multi loop, giant rad, external water system and get some serious OC going on your GPU and CPU, certainly the enthusiast route, where tweaking and playing 'fun' in order to maximize performance, stability, and reliability - certainly a lot more maintenance with this route. Or maybe just something basic to lower noise?

    Here is a good stop for some reading

    http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1266268
     
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    It will be more fun to design and build your own water cooling system, and the gains will be better than a prebuilt system. However the cost will also be higher. If you can measure the mounting holes for your GPU you may be able to fit a Corsair H80 onto your GPU. IF that is possible you may want to just get an H80 for your GPU and either another H80 or an H100 for your CPU. That would cost around $200 total and give you very good cooling potential without any of the hassle with maintenance of normal water cooling systems.

    If you build your own, you may want to look into chilled water cooling systems that are assisted by things like a TEC. You can do all kinds of fun stuff with water cooling :)

    Whichever way you go, dont forget you also need some good heatsinks for both your memory chips and VRM's on your graphics card and probably a fan to cool the VRMs as well. If you dont do that you will kill your GPU pretty quick. the VRMs are actually the hottest part of your graphics card
     
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    + a million for reading everything you can find before approaching us battle hardened and ccasionally damp liquid cooled fanatics.

    If its your first foray into this realm and you don't have an extra computer and/or A LOT of patience and computer parts you don't mind breaking, id really press you towards the prepackaged closed loop jobs. If you have to have a video card that's liquid cooled, let's get some exact specs and some exact goals list after you do a bit of research on your own. I bet we can get you a cost effective solution worked out.

    Ps - if extreme overclocking is your goal, be ready to break out the checkbook and I may not be your best information source. I specialize it whisper quiet computers for music studio work along with casual overclocking for fun.
     
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    what did you come up with?
     
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    I guess its safe to assume nothing came of this...
     
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    I'm going to get a fully liquid cooling setup when I leave uni (2 years). Plan is to build a PC from scratch, have some very strong hardware and the whole thing will be neon hydro cooled with a powerful pump.

    Hoestly I dont know too much about these types of setups, but I do know I'm going to have around $4000 to spend on my next rig.

    [​IMG]
     
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    I reformatted my computer and just been busy with holiday stuff, sorry. I was just looking for opinions and ideas about it because it is something I might look into in a future build or an upgrade eventually, just not anytime soon.