wwfarch said:
Thanks for the response. Based on what you've said it seems like the radiator I've chosen should be fine. The radiator size is roughly 5.5x120mm based on face area. The rad also seems to be a bit on the thick side at 48mm so presumably that should help with cooling. I've definitely seen the lack of 200mm fans in my search and there's only a few that look decent based on specs. I've also been looking at the huge 9x120mm radiators. Would you recommend one of those or are they overkill? I figure I could add a smaller rad at a later date should I need to if I decide to either cool more components or have issues overclocking but a single rad would probably be my preference.
The Phobya Xtreme 400mm would be great if you were only cooling the graphics cards but you've chosen 2x EVGA 780 GTX in SLI (hydro copper), full face coverage water blocks meaning the total cooling for a single GPU is the Die, Memory Chips, and the Voltage Regulators X 2, so the GPUs will be dumping constant heat into the loop, seriously limiting the overclock of the i5-4670K.
The 4670K is hot overclocked so ideally a dual loop setup would be best did you even consider going that route?
If you are definitely stuck on a single loop single radiator setup you will need a radiator that can use higher performing cooling fans than the 200MM fans their performance is horrible they were designed for quiet, the 180mm fans have only one descent serious air pushing fan to choose from the
Silverstone SST-FM181, as they're still in the quiet tolerable range even on high pushing 150cfm.
You obviously chose the 200mm for quiet, I guess?, but once you get to overclocking the 4670K you would have been better off water cooling the GPU loop and getting a high end air cooler for the CPU, you probably would get further overclocking the 4670K.
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I've also been looking at the huge 9x120mm radiators.
That would be my next suggestion they can be side mounted, wall mounted, or stand alone, they have the cooling field area to cover your needs in a single loop, my personal preference is the Watercool offering the
MO-RA3.
I'm running the 4 x 180mm model myself using the Silverstone 32mm fans I linked above cooling my graphics as it is still very quiet and noise tolerable, you may need more cfm adding the cpu so that's the reason for the 9 x 120mm suggestion.
The Watercool MO-RA3 is the best money I've spent water cooling yet besides the Swiftech MCP655 variable speed pumps I run.
Food for thought, I hope this info helps you.
Here is a side mounted view of the MO-RA3.