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workstation cooling mod.
- Thread starter cadman420
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well that was quick, sweet and to the point 
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a triple rad should do the works.
Mcr 320 Best Bang For the buck ( around 50$ )
Mcr 320 Best Bang For the buck ( around 50$ )
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Bingo. A good system will handle a 2nd CPU just as well as it would another video card. At least 2x120 rad is probably a good idea though, 3x if you're cooling a gaming GPU too.
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no custom blocks cad?
make 2 single blocks and braze them together
Now I didn't say I was going to buy the coolers. I do have to do some research on the connectors if I were to try this. I don't know yet. this is my work machine, and I am not going to overclock it or anything just would like to cool the system quietly, but you do have a really good idea there. could just hard pipe the blocks together.
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If I have the room, I think I would like to go with the triple just in case I wanted to cool my video card too, nothing really special there just an ATI 4670 so I doubt it would give the cooling system too much of problem. The whole system runs decently cool now.
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Swiftech also makes an adapter kit for the GTZ waterblocks too. And if you look in forum Classifieds you can probably run across some good deals on GTZ waterblocks from people upgrading to XT blocks. And the GTZ is a damn good waterblock itself.
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Doesn't it also depend on the processors you want to cool as well? The Nehalem Xeons may need a quad to make it silent with acceptable temperatures.
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Since he's not overclocking, you can look at the Intel TDP values for the processors he is using as a guide to how big a rad he needs to run. Even if they are 130 watt TDP procs you are looking at 260 watts of heat dump at 100% usage. I would think a triple should do well for cooling, but since he wants silence I would go with a PA120.3 or RX360 over the others, which have higher FPI.
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Those rads look good, how do they compare against a swiftech? I only ask since that is what I am familiar with, but I am open to change if better. My Xeons are
85 watt ( prestonia )
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10% better than mcr 320
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MCR320 would be plenty to run if they are only 85W parts.
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