How to Watercool this Gaming PC? (HELP)

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TheHazzaaHD

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Hello,
I'm making a gaming PC and I would like to know how to fully water-cool it including the GPU. (But not the memory)

Below are the specs:

NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower Case OR Corsair Obsidian 900D Case.

Intel Core i7 4930K Extreme Hex Core CPU
ASRock X79 Extreme9 Motherboard
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Dual Classified
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 2400MHz Desktop
Seagate 7200.14 3TB SATA III 3.5" Hard Drive
Samsung 840 EVO 500GB 2.5-inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive
Corsair AX860i 860W Power Supply 80 Plus Platinum

It will be used for graphic design, video editing and gaming.

So please may you tell me what I would need to water-cool it, eg: radiator, pipes, pump etc.

Thanks.
 
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unknownofprob
I have an X79 system like you and I would look into watercooling your GPU, but air cooling your CPU.

CPU; Noctua NH-D14 SE2011, Perform so similarly to pre-built liquid coolers it's unbelievable, and far less hassles. I have OC'd my 4930k to 4.9Ghz and temps on prime95 never go above 80 degrees, most pre-built liquid coolers struggle doing that!

For the GPU, Get a Kraken G10 and a pre-built liquid cooler and use that as your liquid cooling GPU setup.

That's all you really need for cool running system.
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I have an X79 system like you and I would look into watercooling your GPU, but air cooling your CPU.

CPU; Noctua NH-D14 SE2011, Perform so similarly to pre-built liquid coolers it's unbelievable, and far less hassles. I have OC'd my 4930k to 4.9Ghz and temps on prime95 never go above 80 degrees, most pre-built liquid coolers struggle doing that!

For the GPU, Get a Kraken G10 and a pre-built liquid cooler and use that as your liquid cooling GPU setup.

That's all you really need for cool running system.
 
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Totally agree with u! I do not understand all those watercooling stuff for CPUs anyway (as long as you don't run programms that heavily tax the CPU and not the GPU).

The GPU uses 250W and is using radial fans that are inefficient and noisy by design. Those using axial fans recirculate hot air in the chassis AND blow that air against the PCB of th GPU (still inefficient and noisy).

On a Tower-type CPU cooler (the CPU hardly exceeds 120W), the fan is axial (ie efficient and silent, noctua being a good example) and if the airflow is designed well, that hot air can be expelled quicky outside.

If you would want to cool anything via water, it should be the GPU. The only problem: because of the many GPU designs on the markets, GPU cooling blocks are non-standard and therefore expensive...
 
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