Hello,
This will be my first water cooled setup. I have bought all the parts (I’m waiting for the water blocks still) but was having trouble trying to figure out which hose setup to use. I could figure out what would work best for me through trial and error but I thought asking these questions here would save me LOTS of time.
Here are the specs of my system:
P4 2.6’C’ @ 2.9GHZ (will over clock more when water setup is done)
Asus P4P800 Deluxe
GeForce4 Ti4800 SE
WD 120GB, 7200rpm, 8MB Cache
2x512 Kingston HyperX PC3200
Temps at idle – CPU 30, NB 30, Air 23
Temps at load – CPU 43, NB 34, Air 23
And for my water system:
Swiftech MCP600 Pump
Swiftech MCW5000-P (CPU Block)
Swiftech MCW50 (GPU Block)
Swiftech MCW20 (NB Block)
Koolance HDD Block
DangerDen Black Ice Extreme II
Dual 3.5” Bay Reservoir
1/2", 3/8”, 1/4" Tygon tubing
The rad, res, and pump are external in a wooden box I made. The main problem is that the HDD water block has 1/4" i.d. barbs where everything else is either 1/2" or 3/8” i.d.
The pump, res, and rad have 1/2"
The CPU, NB, and GPU blocks have 3/8”
The HDD block has 1/4"
I know a 1/4" to the system can decrease flow tremendously especially with so many other blocks in the system.
Here are pictures (excuse the crudity) of different setups I had come up with and just wanted your input as to which would be the best, number 1, 2, 3 or 4. Keep in mind the most important thing is noise reduction with cooling be the second most important. Because noise is the first concern I’ll have the two 120mm fans on the rad running off the 5 volt line instead of the 12 volt line.
Setup #1
Setup #2
Setup #3
Setup #4 – I would install a second rad (RAD #2) WITHOUT a fan. The outgoing flow from RAD #1 would create an incoming flow for RAD #2 (both rad’s and the pump and res would be in an external wooden box.)
The reason I thought up of setup #4 is because I was concerned that the two 120mm fans running only on 5 volts might not be enough cooling alone.
Thanks for reading all this and any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!
This will be my first water cooled setup. I have bought all the parts (I’m waiting for the water blocks still) but was having trouble trying to figure out which hose setup to use. I could figure out what would work best for me through trial and error but I thought asking these questions here would save me LOTS of time.
Here are the specs of my system:
P4 2.6’C’ @ 2.9GHZ (will over clock more when water setup is done)
Asus P4P800 Deluxe
GeForce4 Ti4800 SE
WD 120GB, 7200rpm, 8MB Cache
2x512 Kingston HyperX PC3200
Temps at idle – CPU 30, NB 30, Air 23
Temps at load – CPU 43, NB 34, Air 23
And for my water system:
Swiftech MCP600 Pump
Swiftech MCW5000-P (CPU Block)
Swiftech MCW50 (GPU Block)
Swiftech MCW20 (NB Block)
Koolance HDD Block
DangerDen Black Ice Extreme II
Dual 3.5” Bay Reservoir
1/2", 3/8”, 1/4" Tygon tubing
The rad, res, and pump are external in a wooden box I made. The main problem is that the HDD water block has 1/4" i.d. barbs where everything else is either 1/2" or 3/8” i.d.
The pump, res, and rad have 1/2"
The CPU, NB, and GPU blocks have 3/8”
The HDD block has 1/4"
I know a 1/4" to the system can decrease flow tremendously especially with so many other blocks in the system.
Here are pictures (excuse the crudity) of different setups I had come up with and just wanted your input as to which would be the best, number 1, 2, 3 or 4. Keep in mind the most important thing is noise reduction with cooling be the second most important. Because noise is the first concern I’ll have the two 120mm fans on the rad running off the 5 volt line instead of the 12 volt line.
Setup #1
Setup #2
Setup #3
Setup #4 – I would install a second rad (RAD #2) WITHOUT a fan. The outgoing flow from RAD #1 would create an incoming flow for RAD #2 (both rad’s and the pump and res would be in an external wooden box.)
The reason I thought up of setup #4 is because I was concerned that the two 120mm fans running only on 5 volts might not be enough cooling alone.
Thanks for reading all this and any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!