New pc - first time liquid cooling - suggestions?

[Psychotic Emu]

ahh didn't realise he was cooling that much

1) Take out the flow indicator, its restrictive and not worth it.
2) Remove the resevoirs, you only need 1.
3) Get a thermochill PA120.3 or 2x120.2's
4) Take away the HDD blocks, its pointless and a waste of money. Get a good fan on there and they'll be cool as cucumbers

I'm with you on this one

You might have noticed, inspector gadget, that not much of the thermaltake stuff will be left. I guess thats just the way it is, sorry

[Psychotic Emu]

120W + 200W = 400W+ how?

I was listing the main contributors only.
Add 3 HDDs and possibly chipsets and, certainly if it were me, at least some overclocking (come on, we're putting it on water) and we're pushing well over 400W.

If you're seriously not overclocking it why not just put big thermalright heatsinks on them

Just a mild overclock up to 3GHz with 1.4v would dump an extra 30-40 watts

Having said that, if you do only cool the cpu and gpu, and don't OC much(?) then looking at that reserator 2 review you might find that its up to the job. I honestly don't know much about reserators

[inspectorgadjet]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I'm learning a lot.
I do have the problem that I can't spend much more right now as I've already gone over my intended budget with this pc.
I am going to leave the chipset block for now, but have ordered the D-Tek Fuzion CPU block. I am also going to wait a bit before I get the GPU block as I want to be sure the card is working properly first and doesn't freeze up.
I will actually have two pumps in the system because the M5 Temperature Indicator/Alarm came with another pump. And I know they're both not great, because they're Thermaltake, but they're going to have to do for a while. At least I get to experiment with this stuff for now and buy better quality when I know what I'm doing.
I'm just waiting for that processor to arrive and then I can start putting all the cooling stuff together. The shop have said it should be there on Monday. I'm really quite nervous to be doing it for the first time and I wish I had an expert nearby to help out.