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how much would it be to water cool my rig and what are some good brands

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September 7, 2014 8:20:14 PM

hello, Ive had my rig since feb of 2013. Ive done many upgrades to it and my latest one was a new psu and 2 new gpus.the gpus are r9 280x cards.those cards make my room pretty toasty and have made me look into water cooling them.but now i want to water cool the cpu as well and make it look nice. how much would it be to water cool two r9 280x cards and cpu.(fx 8350) i was going to buy 2 nzxt g10 and 2 more closed loop water coolers but already have a h100 for cpu so it wouldnt look IMO. and what are some good brands out there?how much would it be to do this?
Thanks in advance

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September 8, 2014 5:34:14 AM

The bigger players in the water cooling field are (in alphabetical order) AlphaCool, AquaComputer, EK, Koolance, Larkooler, Swiftech and XSPC. I would recommend starting with a kit and adding another rad (I'd suggest 2 x 240 or a 240 and 360 rad for those components) and full coverage graphics blocks. I base all of my loops from kits since I have not been able to source parts cheaper than offered in a kit
A sampling of kits available http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l2/g30/c321/list/p1/Liquid...
Graphics card blocks http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g30/c309/s2072/list/p1/...

I think I would estimate the total cost to be $450+ (the plus since the sky's the limit if budget allows)
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September 8, 2014 7:21:51 AM

SOSA_EVO said:
.those cards make my room pretty toasty and have made me look into water cooling them.


Hate to say this but water cooling them will only make your room toastier. Because water cooling allows more heat to be exchanged and dissipated faster, this means more heat is being outputted to your room. Heat doesn't just magically disappear.
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September 14, 2014 5:00:15 PM

more than 500$ is realistic, more if you use expensive fittings, expensive reservoirs and 2 full cover GPU blocks (although I would go full cover anyway).
water cooling gpus will drop temps by 30-40°C, more worth it than CPU (my 4670k @stock voltage with 3,8Ghz is seldom over 40 on air, and its sitting behind the radiator for my GPU, but I already ordered the water block)

I'm gaming in a room with another PC that's on too, during actual playing games the air con should be turned on :D 
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