Water cooling Help

[yungin73]

Hey guys,

im having trouble putting together a water cooling kit for my gaming rig im building.

I already intend to overclock it so i know that WC will be a good investment.

 

Things i will be WC are:

Asus Crosshair iv formula

AMD phenom ii x 6 black edition

XFX hd 5970

 

I've been looking around on DangerDen and the parts are confusing me.

 

For the Motherboard i have no idea which water block to use.

For the CPU my guess is the MC-TDX water block

For the GPU DD-5970 Water Block ( a no brainer )

 

Other parts include:

Pump: DD12V-D5 Pump Fixed Speed by Laing

Radiator: Black Ice GTX360

Tubing: Tygon

 

Im a /noob at LC so any help will be appreciated

[Drdeath]

Cooling the motherboard is a waste of money. You will not get any performance increase but it looks pretty..... I would bypass the Motherboard cooling.

 

These blocks for CPU are some of the best and are within a few degees of each other.

 

EK Supreme

Heakiller 3.0

Apogee XT

XSPC Rasa

 

For your GPU EK makes premier waterblocks but I just got a Danger Den Summit for my 5870 and it is less $ and cools wonderfully. Low 30's idle mid 50's load. I don't know if it is compatable for the 5970.

 

Your pump , Rad and tubing are perfect.

 

Water cooling is a great investment. With proper mantainence, you can migrate it to your next system.

Edited August 24, 2010 by Drdeath

[yungin73]

Thanks Death,

Great insight!

 

Definitely on the right track now

[wevsspot]

+1 on everything that Drdeath said