Water cooling for matx?

To start, this is the case i have http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134831 , i dont really wana go any bigger.

I just got my new mb, and i have steped up my oc abit. and now the fan noise is anoying me.

I would love to get in to water cooling in the near future , money premiting.

I have a matx Case, mb, and pico PSU (how much power does a water cooling setup need).

I dont really need GPU cooling , just CPU,

I Would like to mount the radiator on the side panel, by the 80mm fan vent , i will probably have to make the hole bigger?


At the top of the case, there ar 3X3.5 inch bays empty. as a posible space for a tank of some sort?

AS you can tell im completly new to watercooling, never tried it before. so i dont wana spend to much money on the first setup.

have any users on here got a water cooling setup inside a matx case?

Thanks Markp1989 , sorry about all the questions, if you think pics of my setup will make it easier, tell me , and il put some pics up.

My advice would be to just get some quieter fans. Its hard enough WCing a mid tower case, let alone an matx case.

If you really want to try, your only option IMO would be something like this:
http://www.crazypc.com/products/h2o-120_compact-93710.html

Otherwise you would need to build a completely external WCing box with just the tubes going into the case to your CPU..

what cpu are you cooling
for a cpu only loop i think you might be able to get away with one of this here rads http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-rad-23.html
at least if it isn't one of the hotter cpu's
i haven't got any experience with that rad so i hope someone who has can chime in here
most pumps i think uses about 18w and pluss whatever fans you are putting on the rad
for that small a case i would go for a mcp355 http://www.petrastechshop.com/ladd1mcin12p.html with an aftermarket top like this restop from xspc http://www.petrastechshop.com/xsretopforla.html
you can get that pump as 9w too and then is named mcp350
and as last thing i too would definately recomend you to read the stickys here and hopefylly conumdrum will post hes list of links with good reading on watercooling

Im running an e5200, currently oced at 4ghz, 1.4V vcore , im using a mini ninja cooler, with the fan from a celeron D, ducted out the back of the case, pwm controled by the bios.

im gona do alot of googleing around before i buy anything, aswell as asking in various forums.

im thinking it may just be better to get a decent fan , like CGR said,

the temps jump between 61-65 at load, I have just replaced the MB. so i need to give the AS5 some time to break in (i dont know if its really nessaserly, but they say it is)


Thanks for the replys and the links

i been browsing on ebay at kits ( i wont be buying a kit, but im looking to get a rough idea of what i want)

I like the look of somthing like this, but im sure i could do a standard cpu/nb loop alot cheaper then that listing.


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Zalman-RESERA...s_SR?hash=item3353ab10b4&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14

edit: im not gona be getting to water cooling for a while, i just wana know whats available to me when i have the money.

You may have a hard time getting that e5200 much cooler, the die isn't soldered to the cap, it only has TIM in there. That can lead to 5-20*c higher temps over the same voltage/speed as c2d with a soldered cap.

Bobnova said:

You may have a hard time getting that e5200 much cooler, the die isn't soldered to the cap, it only has TIM in there. That can lead to 5-20*c higher temps over the same voltage/speed as c2d with a soldered cap.

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I knew that the IHS wasnt soldered on, but i didnt relize that it made that much of a difference to the temps.

It doesn't always, but it certainly can.
My e5200 even at 2.5ghz 1.1v and a xigmatek HDT-s1283 idles at 37*c in a 18-20*c room.

I read somewhere that the temp sensors in 45nm chips wernt very accurate for idle temp, and wont read below a certian temperature?