Seriously thinking about watercooling now that the technology has had time to mature a bit.
Are there any detailed guides to planning a setup floating around?
Pros/cons to kits/custom designs? etc
Seriously thinking about watercooling now that the technology has had time to mature a bit.
Are there any detailed guides to planning a setup floating around?
Pros/cons to kits/custom designs? etc
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
Exactly the situation I found myself in recently.
All I ended up doing was searching around and seeing what I could glean from distrbuted sources. When it came to comparisions of components, I used http://www.watercoolplanet.de/index.php?open=4 to provide a rank of sorts. http://tomshardware.co.uk/2005/06/09...r_cooling_101/ is probably as much of a guide as it gets.
Is the choice of a radiator pot luck? or just get the biggest you can afford (without stressing the pump)?
Not found anything with calculations on sizes for these things....
How do you like your Asetek? and which kit was it? Can you tell how much head-room you have to ramp up the heat from you component? oh, and how quiet is it?
Sorry for all the questions![]()
Last edited by shaithis; 12-07-2006 at 04:28 PM.
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
what will you be cooling? just the cpu?
CPU and GPU.....want to get rid of whiny fans.
Really don't think my chipset fan produces much noise so would prefer to leave that as-is.
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
Radiator - not really pot luck, just dependant on which kit you get - some have a single radiator (i.e. the size of 1 x 120mm fan) or double or even triple. It depends on the space you've got - obviously you have to find somewhere to put all this stuff. I have a double radiator on mine which is fine for cpu, chipset and gpu (all overclocked etc).Originally Posted by shaithis
I really liked my asetek kit from the point of view as a newbie to watercooling a pc - everything you need is included and their pumps have neato software monitoring/flow control. Push-fit fittings also make it a doddle to plumb together (tip: push hard till you hard a definitive click) and work very well.
My kit has been replaced with this one: CPU/VGA/Chipset cooling kit - http://asetek.com/main/page.asp?sideid=686 which differs in that the pump is now 12V (makes it easier) and the aforementioned flow control/monitoring software.
Headroom - plenty really - even in the hottest weather i see pretty low temps and the drop on my gpu is quite shocking. Overclocking comes down to the limit of the hardware in the main, rather than temps forcing you to back down.
Noise - very quiet indeed. You don't need to run the (quiet) 120mm fans at full blast (mine are at 7-8V) to cool well. The pump seems noisey initially because of trapped air - this dies down over an hour or so and then you can't hear it. I put about 2-3inchs of rubber foam under my pump and this literally removes all possible vibration (and therefore noise). I went with WC specifically to get a quiet PC and haven't been disappointed.
Hope that helps m8. I know there's alternatives out there but i had a very good first experience with Asetek and can't really fault their kit.
Thanks very much for taking the time![]()
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
Beginners guide to watercooling part 1
Beginners guide to watercooling part 2
Both courtesy of www.over-clock.co.uk
Cheers,
Stephen
My personal fav because it shows how to use a car heater core as a cheap effective radiator and proves a pretty decent guide but most likely as in a lot of casesw with guides they will all provide the little bits the other ones dont so its best to read a bit of this a bit of that.
Spode's Abode - "The Ultimate Water Cooling Guide" clicky
Originally Posted by shaithis
Most welcome - when I did it I just bought the kit and figured it out the hard way! Oh, last tip, have a stiff drink before turning it on![]()
Lots of helpful people here to answer questions so don't be afraid to ask![]()
I found that in the waterchil kits, the tubing was a bit crap, and I also bought some other stuff (although I've forgotten what brand) which was really nasty, and further to that didn't have the outside diameter it claimed to.
Anyway, as a result I ended up buying all my tubing from B&Q, it's a lot cheaper than anywhere else, it flexes well without collapsing/kinking and seems pretty durable. Further to that, you can get it in exactly the outer/inner diameters you require
Oh, they charge by the meter... but they do let you cut it yourself... so generous values of a meter all round![]()
is the reserator nto a good started kit? thats pretty simple isnt it?
PowerColor HD 4850 512MB
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz
Coolermaster Centurion 5 All Black
Corsair 450W VX 450W PSU
Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB
i really like the reserator,s i thinkt hey look nice. if anybody knows of any goign second hand.
PowerColor HD 4850 512MB
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz
Coolermaster Centurion 5 All Black
Corsair 450W VX 450W PSU
Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB
The Zalman Reserators cool about as well as a good air solution. There are a couple of places that will let you customise kits, www.over-clock.co.uk being one. Their forums are very helpful, so don't be shy about asking them for help. There's also www.watercoolingshop.com .
Cheers,
Stephen
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)