I've been doing some research into water cooling over the past 2 weeks or so and am hoping to implement a water cooling setup in my CM Stacker case. Here's what I have planned so far:
Pump- DangerDen DD12v Pump
Radiator- DangerDen Double Heater Core w/ 4x fans (not sure what type of fans yet, going to be external)
Water Block- DangerDen TDX Athlon 64 Block w/ 5 accelerator nozzles
Reservoir- AngelEye Fill & Bleed Reservoir (the one from Xoxide)
Tubing- ClearFlex60 1/2" ID Tubing (15'... is that excessive for my setup?)
Along with all the hose clamps and thermal compound needed. For the coolant I'm planning on using 75% distilled water with 25% Pentosin (blue antifreeze) and mixing in some blue UV reactive dye (going for a blue case theme).
I'm planning on mounting this all in a CM Stacker case, as I said before, besides the heater core which I am going to sit behind the computer on the desk or something. I'm going to hook the 4 fans up to a fan controller (they're really the only ones that matter in the whole system) and connect them with a PCI pass through which takes a 4-pin molex and splits it into five 3-pin connections. I don't think I'm going to use the temperature probes on the radiator fans, since it doesn't really matter what temperature the radiator is. I'll stick the temp probes on more important places and just have the fans controlled by the fan controller. I'll route the tubing through the punch-out fan holes at the bottom of the case.
The rest of it will be mounted normally inside the case. The reservoir will go on the top 80mm fan mount.
So how does it look? Anything you guys would change?
What fans would you guys recommend using on the radiator? Does it really matter if I get high performance fans, or could I just go with a relatively cheap ones in a 4x push/pull configuration? I'd rather not spend $50 on fans alone if I can avoid it.
How will a VGA block affect the performance of the entire system? Will it raise the temps of the water by a lot? I guess if it's going to raise the temps a lot I will stick with just a CPU block, but if I would be better off with a VGA block as well I would definitely get one.
Thanks for any advice,
Pump- DangerDen DD12v Pump
Radiator- DangerDen Double Heater Core w/ 4x fans (not sure what type of fans yet, going to be external)
Water Block- DangerDen TDX Athlon 64 Block w/ 5 accelerator nozzles
Reservoir- AngelEye Fill & Bleed Reservoir (the one from Xoxide)
Tubing- ClearFlex60 1/2" ID Tubing (15'... is that excessive for my setup?)
Along with all the hose clamps and thermal compound needed. For the coolant I'm planning on using 75% distilled water with 25% Pentosin (blue antifreeze) and mixing in some blue UV reactive dye (going for a blue case theme).
I'm planning on mounting this all in a CM Stacker case, as I said before, besides the heater core which I am going to sit behind the computer on the desk or something. I'm going to hook the 4 fans up to a fan controller (they're really the only ones that matter in the whole system) and connect them with a PCI pass through which takes a 4-pin molex and splits it into five 3-pin connections. I don't think I'm going to use the temperature probes on the radiator fans, since it doesn't really matter what temperature the radiator is. I'll stick the temp probes on more important places and just have the fans controlled by the fan controller. I'll route the tubing through the punch-out fan holes at the bottom of the case.
The rest of it will be mounted normally inside the case. The reservoir will go on the top 80mm fan mount.
So how does it look? Anything you guys would change?
What fans would you guys recommend using on the radiator? Does it really matter if I get high performance fans, or could I just go with a relatively cheap ones in a 4x push/pull configuration? I'd rather not spend $50 on fans alone if I can avoid it.
How will a VGA block affect the performance of the entire system? Will it raise the temps of the water by a lot? I guess if it's going to raise the temps a lot I will stick with just a CPU block, but if I would be better off with a VGA block as well I would definitely get one.
Thanks for any advice,