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- Jul 14, 2011
I'm pretty new to the WC scene, so far I've only messed with AIO setups for CPU's. I'm planning to put a custom loop into my current build later this year, which is being built into a Silverstone Sugo SG05. The loop will be cooling an i3-4330 and a GTX 660Ti FTW (GTX680 ref). I'm not planning to OC much as I'm pretty satisfied with current performance, but it wouldn't hurt to have a little overhead for the GPU. I know I'm not going to get a whole lot of extra performance out of the i3, but I've been able to up the Base Clock a little, might play with that.
The main purpose of the loop will be to minimize noise. It's already pretty quiet, but I can tell the fans ramp up a little when I push them now, and will do so even more once they're all installed in the case (open air for right now).
These are the parts I'm considering:
Swiftech Apogee Drive II
Heatkiller GPU-X^3 GTX 680 reference
Nexxxos Monsta 120mm
The rad is what I'm curious about. It looks to be pretty huge with a lot of surface area. I'm guessing that it has around the surface area of a standard 240mm rad, just for the fact that it looks to be twice as thick as most of the 120mm rads I've seen around.
considering that I'm not planning to push my hardware very much, would this be enough to cool the 660Ti and the i3 to close to ambient?
More importantly, would the heat generated by the 660Ti be removed fast enough to not effect the i3 very much? Since the i3 is a max 54W cpu, and it doesn't really get very hot anyway I'm not terribly concerned, but more curious than anything.
The rad will be fed by a PWM modded Gentle Typhoon.
The main purpose of the loop will be to minimize noise. It's already pretty quiet, but I can tell the fans ramp up a little when I push them now, and will do so even more once they're all installed in the case (open air for right now).
These are the parts I'm considering:
Swiftech Apogee Drive II
Heatkiller GPU-X^3 GTX 680 reference
Nexxxos Monsta 120mm
The rad is what I'm curious about. It looks to be pretty huge with a lot of surface area. I'm guessing that it has around the surface area of a standard 240mm rad, just for the fact that it looks to be twice as thick as most of the 120mm rads I've seen around.
considering that I'm not planning to push my hardware very much, would this be enough to cool the 660Ti and the i3 to close to ambient?
More importantly, would the heat generated by the 660Ti be removed fast enough to not effect the i3 very much? Since the i3 is a max 54W cpu, and it doesn't really get very hot anyway I'm not terribly concerned, but more curious than anything.
The rad will be fed by a PWM modded Gentle Typhoon.