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Nicolay Setre

Nicolay Setre

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Been considering making a full costum loop for my pc.

Specs:

Case: NZXT Phantom 410
Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 8350 (will be clocked at 4.7 / 4.8)
GPU: Gainward Geforce gtx 770 Phantom 4gb (2-way SLI)
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer 16gb (4x4gb) 1866MHz
PSU: Corsair AX860 80+ Platinum
OS SSD: 3x Samsung 840 evo 120gb (raid 0)


Watercooling parts:

Cpu block: Koolance-CPU 370SA
GPU block(s): EK-FC770 gtx
Top radiator: H100i (push)
Front radiator: XSPC EX240 Crossflow (push - pull)
Rear radiator: XSPC AX120 (push)
Reservoir / pump: XSPC X2O 750

This build is a silent optimized build, and i am aiming for making it 99% virtually noiseless. Which is why i am considering going with a total of 8x "Be-Quiet SilentWings 2 120mm" fans for all the rads.


Reasons for chosing some of the parts:

- H100i rad: The H100i is one of few 240 rads that fit the top of this case without the need for modding.

- EX240 rad: was stated by LinusTechTips to be the best performing 240 rad on the market.

- X20 750 pump: The pump itself is 100% sealed inside the reservoir, making it extremely silent, its good looking and only takes up the (most of the time) useless 5.25" room. Alltho i know that its not the best performing pump with its 24L pr min performance (so not enterily sure yet if its enough with that pump alone).



Would love some thoughts and opinions regarding the components that i have listed, aswell as if this will be enough to keep all the hardware cooled (as i still view myself as a newbie when it commes to custom loops).


best regards
- Kinryuu
 
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3 radiators sounds a bit over the top. And they all need tubes running in and out. The 410 is a good mid tower. but will everything fit without heating up the case, hdds, ram, mobo etc? Your got a good fan controller? Do you want this so you can overclock for high demand games and settings? Or just for the build's sake?
 
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Nicolay Setre

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Was planning on running it:

Top front pump / reservoir -> Top rad -> Rear rad -> Cpu -> Gpu 1 -> Gpu 2 -> Lower front rad -> Back to the pump / reservoir.


The front rad will be intake, and the top + rear will act as exhaust. So it should be able to keep the case temp at a decent level.
Planning on modding the sidepanel behind the motherboard to fit a 120mm fan. Its a tight fit, but according to my measurements it should be doable, and it should help out with the motherboard temp.

2x 770 card with their target temp at 80C and a FX 8350 clocked to the max i have to expect the motherboard to run a little hot under 100% load on the whole system.


The 8350 + 1x 770 has no problem running pretty much all games on max settings with 60hz monitors.
Few game examples with maxed out settings:
Far Cry 3: 65-80 fps
FFXIV: 60-100 fps
Diablo 3: 70-150 fps
Loadout: 200-400 fps
Skyrim: 90-160 fps
etc


So guess i will have to go with "just for the builds sake", alltho i'm not gonna cry over the gaming performance this rig will have. ;)

Been working with some software, and alot of repairing and building PC's over the years, but i'v recently started with some case-modding as a hobby. And the system we are currently discussing is what i am planning on using as my personal rig for 2014.
 
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II think you only need 2 radiators - 1 just before the CPU and 1 just before the GPU's. And I think you'd be a lot better off with a Phantom 820 case. It'd be much easier to cram all this cooling stuff into.

Have you thought about how you're going to control all the fans?
 
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Nicolay Setre

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Was planning on running the 4 fans for the front rad with the intigrated controller the 410 has, the rear rad fan with the case fan controller on the motherboard, and then the 2 fans with the 2 cpu fan connector / controllers.

I'v already purchased the case, stripped of the paint and started to mod it for everything to fit (its kinda the fun part, to make a design that no one else "has" + using components that isn't originally ment to be there). ;)

I might give it a try, only using the top and the rear rad, atleast at first to see how it runs. If i'm not satesfied with the temps, then i'll just get the rear rad later and include it in the loop. :)
 
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