Best Water Cooling Setup For AMD FX8350

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I was looking to water cool my new CPU and I was wondering what kind of radiator and fans I would need. I'm new to water cooling and still learning a lot. I have a Thermaltake Chaser MK-1. It is a full tower case, however I'm not exactly sure how big of a radiator I can fit inside of it or what kind of fans I would need to get to keep the water cool. I play a lot of high demanding games like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Battlefield 4 so my CPU generates a lot of heat. I was looking at this pump and reservoir http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006JCH4N4/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=UGT4XUNFZJ0E&coliid=I1UYIQT51OX1EG Would this be enough to keep temperatures low?

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Yes, but that's an apples to oranges comparison. That Amazon link is just a pump...nothing else...you still have to buy CPU block, radiator, tubing, fittings.

What are you trying to achieve? You didn't answer the CPU temp/overclocking/vcore question.
 
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Well my CPU is not getting that hot and I'm not overclocking it, I was just wondering what size radiator I would need to keep my CPU cool while still being quiet even while running high graphic games like GTA 5. I want to liquid cool it because it is much more quiet when water cooled. My CPU is running at 4.0 GHZ and its power is 125 Watts. This is the water block I was looking at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T19CO0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=UGT4XUNFZJ0E&coliid=I2SV6YX4MT8IGL I am just wondering if this will be enough to keep it cool. I'm very new to water cooling and just making sure this will work. Thanks
 
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Ok reading MANY different threads I landed on this one.

Same processor running 4.0 GHZ at 125 Watts. If I am not careful with graphic settings Fallout 4 will overheat my processor in under 5 minutes of play. Using "Turbo Core" from the bios and overclocking will overheat the system at idle in 15 minutes. I need a different cooling block but have ZERO idea what could possibly help my situation. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
 
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Water cooling is not silent, you have fans mounted to your rad plus the pumps themselves make some noise, if you want silent look up fanless heatsinks, but even a monsterous fanless rig will still be outperformed by even small single fan units.

I just ordered a couple new heatsinks to test but I'm currently using a cm hyper 612 and a silverstone fhp141 fan on it it's actually cooler than many liquid cooled rigs and not terribly loud either. I'm looking into dual fan dual tower units rn and many of them at stock have performance very close to liquid cooling as well.

And the best fluid to liquid cool with would be non-conductive like oil because if it leaks it poses no risk to components but the best thermally conductive fluid is salt water, but it's very conductive so if it leaks your components will die. Air cooling doesn't have that issue.
 
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