Water Cooling Setup

[Silmatharien]

How's this sound?

Chipset Waterblock - Danger Den MAZE4 Chipset Block
CPU Waterblock - Danger Den - TDX Block AMD XP/MP
Pump - Eheim 1250 - 110/120V - 317 GPH
Tubing - 6 feet of Tygon Tubing (more necessary?)
Radiator - Black Ice Xtreme Radiator
Paste - Arctic Silver 5

Distilled water is easy to buy, as is antifreeze. I think some cool dye for the water would be nice (suggestions?). Also, since I'm not going to use a resevoir, I need to have a 'T' at the top of my case, do I not for adding water? Oh, yes, I need metal jubilee clips or something ... I think.

What do you think of this system?

[vonkaar]

The Eheim 1250 is quickly becoming the Plaid with Polka Dots water-cooling faux pas of the new generation. Spice up your wardrobe with a new Laing D4 and watch the girls come running. You'll save space, lower temperatures and cap it off with a more tidy wiring job by kissing those 110v relays goodbye! Six feet of tubing is adequate for most people that don't go by the name Nikhsub1, you should be fine. For waterblocks, your choices will prove to be a satisfactory combination that would make even the strictest German 8mm fanboys green with envy.

All in all, I'd say that you have a solid foundation to build on, but I would splurge a little and spend the extra $15 on the new hotness in pump fashion - the Laing D4.

[Bios24]

Although the TDX is a good block, the Swifty 6002 is the better value.

<can't find the URL for the block round-up, who's got it?>

Also- some would say a NB block isn't 'needed' because it puts off such little heat, but that's up to you. Many like to go with a heatcore rather than a black ice because of price, but again that's up to your budget. It's still a great rad IMO.

[Silmatharien]

Let's see .. I have $500.00 Canadian roughly to spend on this. So I can splurge. :)

I'd probably have to go hunting around a landfill site to find a heatercore . . . just have to go do it, is all. But I'm not keen on modding this case.

Any other suggestions on how I could improve this? I have $381 US in total. Maybe I will cool my video card.

Can I do better with my waterblocks?

[DarkJester]

Tubing - 6 feet of Tygon Tubing (more necessary?)


6 feet should be ok, but it cant hurt to have a little spare tubing in case you want to reroute stuff or add a GPU block for example.

[Silmatharien]

Okay, how's this then?

CPU Waterblock – Swiftech 6002 (For AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton) - $42.50
Chipset Waterblock – Swiftech MCW20 - $37.95
VGA Waterblock – Swiftech MCW50 - $42.95 (Peltier would be nice!)
Pump – Laing D4 a.k.a. SwiftechMCP650
Tubing – 8 ft. of Tygon Tubing
Thermal Paste – Arctic Silver 5

Then of course some barbs, antifreeze/Water Wetter (? suggestions ?), oh and WATER!

Yeah, so that's what I'm thinking. What do you think?

[vonkaar]

Looks perfect ^_^