BEST watercooler?? I want to piece it together

[regchamp]

I'm looking for the best watercooling unit for a cpu and dual gpus. I currently have a thermaltake bigwater system, but I want to piece together my own system, using the largest available tubing, powerful pump, and best waterblocks available. Could I please have some suggestions? thank you

[matm347]

Supposed to be the best GPU block... http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-blc-244.html

A really nice SLI setup, don't know of any other...
http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-blc-236.html
They are for 7800series, they make 6800 and may have to come out with a 7900 series. If you go dual ATI you may need to run separate GPU blocks with ramsinks???

1/2" tubing is the largest that is readily supported with CPU/GPU connections.

Here's all the pump you'll ever need
http://www.pondliner.com/PM5.htm

[casecutter]

Those waterblocks for the video cards you linked to are a HUGE waste of money. The VRAM does not need to be watercooled and they hurt the performance of the water loop with extra heat load and pressure drop. Get the DangerDen Maze 4 SLI kit and forget about that monstrosity NV6800/7800 stuff. That CPU waterblock is very good, but the Swiftech Storm is the ultimate CPU block. I would not buy it though. Get the Apogee, the Maze 4 SLI kit and a single pass dual 120MM heater core for the rad and you cannot go wrong. I run an Eheim 1250 pump and it kicks some serious ass and is quite cheap too. And make sure to run all 1/2" ID tubing.

[matm347]

Well, he did say he wanted the best...nothing about cost was mentioned. VRAM gets quite hot, hot enough to burn fingers, even with RAMsinks. Active cooling or an extremely high flowing case would be needed if you're going to do some decent overclocking with RAMsinks. But I also would not buy that setup, not with the way the GPU market has been coming out with new cards all the time.

The Apogee has a lower pressure drop and lower thermal resistance than the Storm. It shows a good performance jump in Swiftech's tests too.

[WakeUpDead]

I just got done with my H2O system and the Storm is great, took my temps down 8-10*c and the AS5 hasn't even set in yet. As for GPU I have a X1900XT and the Swiftech 60 with the Ramsinks works well, that temp is down 10-12*c and 1900's get hot, very hot. I do have a 80mm (very low speed) blowing on the card too, for the sinks, but I dont think I even need it. I went all Swiftech, Pump, 2x120 Rad, GPU, CPU. Im glad I did, it really works well, get the 1/2' tubbing like casecutter said, man the flow is great. Have fun, just make sure you do a good leak test! My first Radiator leaked all over, swiftech replaced it very quickly though! Good luck!

[casecutter]

In my opinion, the NV6800/7800 blocks are definitely NOT the best. The memory absolutely does not need watercooling and you will not get it to clock higher what way. THe extra heat it dumps into the water loop plus the drop in pressure is sure to hurt performance. The memory can be cooled fine with cheap aluminum ramsinks and decent case airflow or a simple low speed fan blowing near the cards. Stay away from those blocks.

[matm347]

More performance is not the only reason to overclock, less noise also comes into play. The VRAM is not going to add much more heat, reviews show a 1C higher CPU temp at load using the DD GPU block. The GPU load temps were lower than the idle temps when they were on air. DD uses a high flow/low pressure drop design. IMO having the RAM watercooled is better than running heatsinks and running extra fans, but to each their own.

[jamie_horwood]

this is a link to my pic
http://forums.tweaktown.com/attachme...tachmentid=228

My temps for case/cpu diode/cpu socket are in the new attachment below

[jamie_horwood]

This is a close up shot

[bf2nut]

This is a close up shot

wire management? http://svc.com/sleeving.html custom by the foot,like $20 total and like hour time,makes huge difference.any clear side case should have powersupply loomed...