Overclocking CPU and GPU's, need a new case

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Hi!

I plan on overclocking my 2 MSI Radeon R9 270X cards and my AMD Richland A8-6600K. I am going to have to overclock my motherboard to run 2400 mHz RAM speeds, however I have plans to do that in the future when I upgrade to a mobo that can handle those speeds better. I need to design a watercooling loop for this build and I would like to know what size radiators I would need, if I would need a new case to fit those radiators (I am using an Aerocool Strike-X One), and how I would put the two GPU's and the CPU (and possibly the mobo for when I overclock it to run the RAM??) into the loop.

Any help is appreciated.
 
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I'm guessing you mean a custom water cooling loop. Depending how good you are at fitting all this stuff a full tower case would be easier.

With this case you could make 2 loops, Use a drive bay reservoir and put your 2 120mm radiators on the top. But.. but very very hard. All the hardware should fit, just the loop might be a problem.
 
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Okay, so which full tower case would you recommend I use? And how would I configure the loop? Like, would I need a triple 120 mm radiator and a double or two doubles since I'd be overclocking so many things, in a new case, of course.
 
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It depends what you think will be adequate, I went with 2 120mm radiators but a few people prefer the double rads.

Also I would recommend a NZXT case, They have quite alot of features and one of my friend. Althought that's just a personal preference.
 
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The thing is I don't know what would be adequate for this. I have never done something like this before.
 
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Well then I would recommend a double rad for the 2 gpu's and 1 single rad for the cpu. The gpu's will get much hotter than the cpu, Depends on what you want as you could get 2 double rads, depending on your cpu.

 
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Then I will probably get two double rads. Now how should I confugure the path of the loop?
 
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The path of the loop? The path is entirely up to you, whatever you think looks nice as long as there is not breakages or the loop is in weird places. I would have the same loop for both of the gpu's and another loop just for the cpu.

By the gpu's sharing the loop it makes them about the same temperature and then doesn't affect the cpu. The cpu generally generates more heat with an overclock so it's own loop for itself is useful.
 
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