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ChocolateGuy97

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Hi I have been debating whether or not water cooling would be right for me. My current build only has the cpu an i7 4770k with the stock heatsink but i want to watercool it. I have a few questions. First, this is what has been troubling me, should I get a closed loop or make a fully custom one.

My first idea is to just get a Corsair H100i cpu cooler and an Asus GTX 780 plain and simple and be done.

OR should I get a water cooling loop to include the gpu and cpu.

If you were to recommend the full loop then what card should I get since the current Asus GTX 780 does not sport a waterblock. Also what would be the pros and cons to the custom loop.

I would have about $1,000 or so by the end of February to make this a reality and my case is fully capable it is a Corsair 750d being able to hold a triple 120mm rad up top and a dual 140mm rad in the front.
 
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Wow you are really looking to a very advanced setup, do you really want to build the full setup without know 1st how to assemble that correctly? You can just go with the 360 rad and the waterbloock, with it you will have a challenge in routing tubing and even getting sure that you dont have leaks and so on.

With a complex system you will have more points of failure, i cant recommend someone that is completely new in watercooling to make a full setup just right away without knowing the basics.

Everything I can actually help you out is telling you that be careful and play safe, building watercooling setups are risky as they wont leak a the 1st week but with time the tubbing tend to change and something feel down. That happen with on of...
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This kind of topics are neverending, but there are a few things good to know.

Closed loops are "good enough" for starters that wants something "better" than a typical tower style cooler, but is well known that some (noctua coolers) air coolers are as good as most closed loops like the H100i.

If you really plan to overclock and get a pretty good looking system, watercooling will give that "extra sexyness" inside if your case, also will give great temps while being almost silent... If you buy proper fans.

There are some combos that comes with everything you need to start, radiator, pump, waterbloock and fittins, some even come with tubing and reservior.

The best way to start is buying by yourself one if these kits, or asking here what to buy and we can give a good advice of what parts to put together. To start watercooling your processor is a good idea, with a single 240mm rad or even a 360, installing a watercooling will take its time so with a simple setup you can learn how to route tubings, how to avoid leaks and what kind of managament you need to do in order to have a good looking and well performer setup...


 
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I was thinking about getting this:
Magicool Extreme Triple 120mm Radiator
Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper Dual 140mm Radiator
PrimoChill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT Tubing 1/2"ID x 3/4" OD - 10ft Retail Pack - Bloodshed Red (PFLEXA10-34-R) w/ Free Sys Prep
Alphacool Cape Corp Coolplex Pro 25 LT - 250mm
XSPC RayStorm High Performance Acetal CPU Liquid Cooling Block - Intel (Sockets LGA 115x / 1366 / 2011)
EK D5 X-Top Pump Top w/ D5 Vario Pump - Black Acetal (EK-D5 Vario X-TOP (incl. pump))
EK ASUS GeForce 780 GTX DCII VGA Liquid Cooling Block - Acetal + Nickel (EK-FC780 GTX DCII - Acetal+Nickel)

I see that they have a block for the 780 but not the r9 280x my mistake. Also I have pictures for what I would like to do with the routing of the tubing but I do not know how to upload them. Also I'm getting compression fittings and some 45 degree bend fittings. All of this runs me about $560 off of frozencpu.com but I will shop around.
 
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Wow you are really looking to a very advanced setup, do you really want to build the full setup without know 1st how to assemble that correctly? You can just go with the 360 rad and the waterbloock, with it you will have a challenge in routing tubing and even getting sure that you dont have leaks and so on.

With a complex system you will have more points of failure, i cant recommend someone that is completely new in watercooling to make a full setup just right away without knowing the basics.

Everything I can actually help you out is telling you that be careful and play safe, building watercooling setups are risky as they wont leak a the 1st week but with time the tubbing tend to change and something feel down. That happen with on of my friend that was running a Quad Xfire of HD7990 and he had a watercooling set up to farm bitcoins, while he was out one of the tubing feel off the rad... there were water everywhere.

You can imagine that disaster, about 1200 bucks burned. So, better for you go simple and learn by steps, you dont want your 1st experience in watercooling as a nasty memory of water dont go with electronics.
 
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I know a few basics but here is that ill do for now, I'm just gonna build a loop for the cpu to which I can expand in a few months to a year to the graphics card so that'll save me around 200 to 300 at this time. In the mean time I can just save up for a car and read up on some more watercooling information.
 
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