Water cooling in p180 advice/tips
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:00 am
hey there guys.
Basically I would like to go back to watercooling for a couple of reasons.
I havn't watercooled since my OC'd P4 HT and havn't really had a need for it since.
I have had my P180 build for a while now and the specs are as follows:
Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9-SLI
Q6600 G0 Stepping (with Xigmatec cooler)
4GB OCZ reaper-x DDR2 800
Geforce 8800GTX (HR-03 cooler with Sharkoon 120mm 1000 'golf ball' fan)
1x 750GB Samsung F1
Thermaltake toughpower 750 modular PSU
There are a total of 4 fans in the system- 3x Sharkoon 1000 golf ball fans and 1x Antec tri-cool fan
My plan was to water cool as the system is often on for extended periods of time and idles fairly warm.
My intended set-up is:
XSPC Water block (already have this)
Full cover VGA block for GFX card
1x Black ice GT stealth 360 rad
Laing DDC-1T Pro 10/18w
XSPC 5 1/4" drive bay reservoir
I was going to use the three Sharkoon fans on the rad for the time being and mount the rad on the top of the case (by cutting a hole in the top and mounting inside the case) and have the fans pulling/pushing out of the case.
What are your thoughts on this?
Will the radiator and pump be up to cooling the CPU and GPU? I also plan to get a NB cooler at some point.
The routing for the cooling will be:
Reservoir > Pump > Rad > CPU > GPU
Any thoughts/comments warmly welcomed!
Phil
Basically I would like to go back to watercooling for a couple of reasons.
I havn't watercooled since my OC'd P4 HT and havn't really had a need for it since.
I have had my P180 build for a while now and the specs are as follows:
Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9-SLI
Q6600 G0 Stepping (with Xigmatec cooler)
4GB OCZ reaper-x DDR2 800
Geforce 8800GTX (HR-03 cooler with Sharkoon 120mm 1000 'golf ball' fan)
1x 750GB Samsung F1
Thermaltake toughpower 750 modular PSU
There are a total of 4 fans in the system- 3x Sharkoon 1000 golf ball fans and 1x Antec tri-cool fan
My plan was to water cool as the system is often on for extended periods of time and idles fairly warm.
My intended set-up is:
XSPC Water block (already have this)
Full cover VGA block for GFX card
1x Black ice GT stealth 360 rad
Laing DDC-1T Pro 10/18w
XSPC 5 1/4" drive bay reservoir
I was going to use the three Sharkoon fans on the rad for the time being and mount the rad on the top of the case (by cutting a hole in the top and mounting inside the case) and have the fans pulling/pushing out of the case.
What are your thoughts on this?
Will the radiator and pump be up to cooling the CPU and GPU? I also plan to get a NB cooler at some point.
The routing for the cooling will be:
Reservoir > Pump > Rad > CPU > GPU
Any thoughts/comments warmly welcomed!
Phil