Watercooling Questions

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Hi Guys,

Planning to throw my Tt Bigwater Kit out and go for a customer water-cooling setup for my C2D E6600 for now and may be add GPU block later.

I am planning on getting Swiftech MCP655 pump and STORM Rev2 CPU water-block.

Do u think it will be worth going for Storm over Apogee?

Also need help in choosing the right radiator. I am looking for a dual 120mm rad which I am gonna mount outside my case.

I was looking at this one:
http://tinyurl.com/y96faf

But found out that this would require high CFM fans which will be too loud(?)

Any ideas for fans that would go with this one and aren't too loud??

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[BGP_Spook]

Since you are ditching the kit and going custom, here are my thoughts.


Get the Apogee since you won't notice too much difference between it and the Storm for your system.

Get one of the Thermochill PA120.x series for the best radiator on the market rather than a BIX2. Not cheap, but many feel they are worth it.

Get two Yateloons(it's a fan) since they are pretty quite. Though, there are other options. Look here as an option and here for other options.

Get a Via Aqua 1300. Why? Because it is very cheap(~$20), fairly quite when properly assembled, and otherwise adequate in every way.
Draw backs include some reports of leaking although they are all I have ever used and I have never had any problems.

 

[wun911]

Thermochill PA is not as dense as a BIX...
BIX is far cheaper and will cool a conre easy

Yeateloons or panflow fans are quite good

Storm is still better than apogee....

 

[BGP_Spook]

Thermochill PA is not as dense as a BIX...

Which is to the PA series advantage. Higher fin densities require higher pressure fans and higher CFM fans to achieve equivalent results.
The PA series have proven to be by far the best performing and quietest radiators below ~80CFM.
Anything that can beat a PA has to do it north of 100CFM!

BIX is far cheaper and will cool a conroe easy

The PA series is, as I mentioned, not cheap. That is there main drawback, and it is at least in part a result of there success.
Almost everything you want to know about radiators used in watercooling.

Storm is still better than apogee....

Yes, but according to recent findings the difference is almost unnoticeable(less than 1 C under load) for CPU's that have a IHS and all modern CPUs have an IHS.

 

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Thanks for replying guys.

I picked-up the Storm thinking it will be more effective if I OC my CPU a little bit more (3.2 - 3.6 Ghz) or may be get a Quad in future. What say?

The ThermoChill Rad looks good but a little expensive for me.

Do u think BIX would do fine if I couple it with something like http://tinyurl.com/y6vakk or http://tinyurl.com/uh79p

 

[BGP_Spook]

I picked-up the Storm thinking it will be more effective if I OC my CPU a little bit more (3.2 - 3.6 Ghz) or may be get a Quad in future. What say?

The Storm, for pure performance, has yet to be beaten as there is no better block made.

The ThermoChill Rad looks good but a little expensive for me.

Do u think BIX would do fine if I couple it with something like http://tinyurl.com/y6vakk or http://tinyurl.com/uh79p

It is not a question of will it work, but how well. Compared to the ThermoChills the BIX will produce about 20% to 40% more temperature delta for the same heat load.

It will keep your Conroe reasonably cool with most any fan you use. I don't know how cool but it will keep it cool.

 

[wun911]

look man a BIX II will cool a conre down... easy

BIX III will handle a conroe + a 7900 GTX.... easy

I have both BIX III and a Thermochill PA....

I run them both with 103 CFM panflow fans....

Once you reach ambient temps you cant go lower no matter what rad you have anway....

 

[BGP_Spook]

I didn't say it wouldn't work, quite the contrary.

It will keep your Conroe reasonably cool with most any fan you use. I don't know how cool but it will keep it cool.