Going straight water cooling

[Necorum]

Any suggestions for my setup im on a 400 dollar budget for this project?

And sam if you have time and read this or get my message im about to send ya could you help im scared to deat hof water and my pc

[Gizmo]

You plan to build your own or buy a pre-built kit and just install it? Also, what are you looking to watercool? Just the CPU, CPU and RAM, whole system?

[Samuknow]

400 is a pretty good budget. Like Giz asked, what are you cooling.

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by Samuknow

400 is a pretty good budget.

'Pretty good budget'? Dude, for that, I could build a refrigeration system!

[Samuknow]

I was try to be sarcastic. LOL

I think I only have about 150 or so in mine.

There you go. Buy a window unit. Water blocks. A strong pump. A big 12 pack cooler. Lots of tubing. Insulating products, ( liquid tape, silicone, dielectric grease, foam). And chill that bad boy.

[Necorum]

lol i have a 400 budget and im trying to cool everything my room is hot and well this thing is cooking at times. ON the prebuilt or build my own i dont care just trying to figure this all out

[Samuknow]

buy your own...I usually stick with danger den...

[Necorum]

Can you give me a link or does fry's have a good setup ?

[Necorum]

Danger Den :: Water Cooling Kits :: Configured Kits and Specials :: Danger Den 4200 Kit

but how would i go about cooling my southbrudge and north and my memory

[Samuknow]

They do have NB blocks at DD. SB may not be worth it at all. There are some mem blocks out there. May be better off with the mem fan units that go over the slots.

[Necorum]

yea i saw the NB on dangerdens site fans for mem hmmm

[Samuknow]

Corsair makes mem with built in water jackets. I think it is Corsair. I think OCZ does also.

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by gizmo

'Pretty good budget'? Dude, for that, I could build a refrigeration system!

Unhun, and I'm sure your wife would be trilled with it! ":O}

[Samuknow]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

Unhun, and I'm sure your wife would be trilled with it! ":O}

That is why my chiller is not in the house anymore.

[Necorum]

Originally Posted by Samuknow

That is why my chiller is not in the house anymore.

Looks around and thinks to himself wow thank god im single

[Samuknow]

Originally Posted by Necorum

Looks around and thinks to himself wow thank god im single

But, membership does have it's privileges.

[Necorum]

LoL i can always borrow others memberships :P lol j/p a bit

ANyways minor set back on my plans

I lost my wallet @ Ozzfest

All cards reported lost/stolen no charges were made only one attempt but it was declined due to invalid pin

[keithwalton]

Go for cooling your cpu, then gpu's unless you have a hot running north bridge i wouldnt bother water cooling it, same for the ram. You will need to keep some airflow in the case as things like voltage regulation circuits will overheat, and the psu will suffer as well. The more you add to the loop the bigger the pump and radiator you'll need.
If your room is on the warm side go for at least a double 120mm rad if not two of them. or even a tripple 120mm rad.

Eg, in the following loop

Res -> pump -> cpu -> rad1 -> gpu's -> rad2 -> back to res

This was both the cpu and gpu's will have the cool incoming water. (Although cpu will run slightly cooler in the following arangement,
res -> pump -> cpu -> gpu's -> rad1 -> rad2 -> res,
the gpu's will run hotter. This is because the input water to the first rad will be hotter and thus more heat will flow due to the higher temperature difference)

its worth nothing that 2x double 120mm rads are cheap than 1x quad 120mm rad.

I use the thermaltake bigwater series kit, its cheap, cheerfull and has done me well and its currently keeping my quad core cpu, and x1900 nice and cool

[Daniel ~]

How's that Quad working out for you Keith?

[keithwalton]

Its running nicely, ticking along at 3GHz at the moment using all 4 cores to fold quite nicely. I'm probably going to beef up my radiators when i get some more money in (currently on a shoe string budget until october) as the water is warmer than i'd like it