The Daily noob water cooling setup question

[wmalinowski]

I’m currently will upgrading to the following system:

Phenom II – 940
ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe Motherboard
OCZ Platinum Edition 8GB (4 X 2GB) DDR2-800
Vista 64-bit Home Premium
4870 Visiontek Video Card
2 640 GB Western Digital Hard Drive
Antec 1200 Case
Will also use UV light in this system.


I also will water cooling this system with following setup:

D-tek FuZion V2 CPU Water Block w/ Quad Core Insert
Swiftech MCP65-B Water Pump
Bitpower 525 Reservoir Black
Swiftech MCR320-QP Radiator Black
Swiftech MCB-120 Radbox V.2 Mounting Kit
PrimoFlex UV Green ½” x ¾ “ Tubing (about 10 ft)
Stainless Steel Hose Clamps 5/16” – 7/8 “ (10)
MCT-5 Non-Conductive Solution
Fans have to be decided on


And if I can afford it:

MCW60-4870 VGA Cooling


Is this a good setup or do you better recommendation before I buy and screwed something up :bang head

Any advice is helpful…

[muddocktor]

Your choices look pretty good to me, but I would change the Radbox choice to the older Revision 1 (http://www.petrastechshop.com/swstmcrrebl.html) which is made of steel instead of plastic and also cheaper. I have both and much prefer the metal ones, especially with a large radiator like the MCR320-QP. And I really don't think you need the quad insert for the Fuzion since the AMD quads are single die (and I've also read that the quad insert doesn't help anyways on the Fuzion V2). And I don't know anything about the Bitspower res, so I'll let someone else comment on it. I like the Swiftech Micro Res Rev 2 that I have though. And for coolant I would just use distilled water with some PTNuke in it (also from Petra's and you can order it when you get the Radbox Rev 1).

[Conumdrum]

Solid. Pump is an odd number you have, I'm sure you mean 655-B. It's a good pump.

Liquid... Non-conductive is hype from marketers. Lots of us use distilled water (Walgreens $1 a gal) and Petras PT or PHN Nuke or Ians Silver coils. All you'll ever need to keep the loop pretty n clean.

[jr1]

tumbs up for the microres even tho i'm using the rev 1 of them
just like muddoctor i haven't any experience at all with the bitspower one

[wmalinowski]

So you guys recommend the Petra’s Tech Shop place. I was looking at them because they sell PTS Ultimate Radiator Combo: MCR320-QP Edition (http://www.petrastechshop.com/ptsulracomce.html). I just haven’t time to check the company out.

[Conumdrum]

It's one place we can say you will get the best service ever, hands down.

Others:

Jab Tech
Danger Den
Sidewinder
Performance PC's
are the ones I heve dealt with.

[muddocktor]

Yeah, Petra's is a quality vendor. Also in that category are Jab-tech, Sidewinder Computers and Danger Den. They will treat you right and have great tech support and service. I've bought from Perofrmance PC's in the past with no problems, but if you check out Resellerratings.com their ratings have tanked quite a bit in the last 6 months. Last time I bought from them was about a year ago.

[Spawn-Inc]

agree with what everyone said above as everything i was going to say has been said that i can think of right now.

[Insane Scyth]

I loved petra's customer service. The free pen with the small hand written thank you note for shopping with them made my day that much better.

I have pretty much the same setup as you with the exception of the res. I went with the t-line instead. You won't be disappointed :beer:

Instead of getting the MCT-5 coolant I would grab some distilled water, pt-nuke and some uv reactive dye if thats what your looking for (saw the uv lights in your parts list). I believe pt-nuke and dye can be mixed, someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

[muddocktor]

If he wants the UV look, I think the UV reactive tubing is a great idea. I just don't trust those dyes to not start some grungy stuff growing in my loop.

[saxile]

Dyes won't hurt it, but they can mix with the plasticizers on the tubing walls and stick to stuff, but no more difficult to remove than the plasticizer itself.

[Conumdrum]

Seen many oddities posted using add-on dyes or other 'stuff', no one is a chemist who can really tell what causes it. One just popped up with blue Feser liquid, block had snot chunks in it. And many say Feser is one of the better ones. Some have no issues, some do.

No one has issues with distilled and biocide I know of, I haven't heard of one mysterious growth issue. The newer UV/colored tubing is really popular for the bling required by some, I recommend it.

[muddocktor]

Seen many oddities posted using add-on dyes or other 'stuff', no one is a chemist who can really tell what causes it. One just popped up with blue Feser liquid, block had snot chunks in it. And many say Feser is one of the better ones. Some have no issues, some do.

No one has issues with distilled and biocide I know of, I haven't heard of one mysterious growth issue. The newer UV/colored tubing is really popular for the bling required by some, I recommend it.

A big +1 on that. I see no reason to take a chance of some kind of weird chemical reaction or having some yucky stuff growing in my loop since they have all the UV reactive tubing nowadays. And the OP listed UV reactive tubing in the original post too.

[Conumdrum]

And if mud is a rig mudman mixin mud, he's almost a chemist and a smart guy, besides choosing to live on a stick for a few days a week in the middle of the ocean. Smart yes, common sense smart? Dunno???

J/K, kinda neat really.