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Anonymous   02-15-2009 at 04:51:08 AM

what is a reliable well priced water cooling system for the i7?

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db140   02-15-2009 at 04:53:07 AM
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are you askin for a preassembled system?

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Anonymous   02-15-2009 at 04:58:19 AM
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Sorry for not specifying... Either pre-assembled or pieced together. just trying to sift through the data bull to get an excellent water cooling system for my new i7 rig. Seeing if anyone has goos info into this situation before I make a purchase.

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db140   02-15-2009 at 04:59:50 AM
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mind givin some specs as to what your wanting to cool like vga, NorthBridge, Hard drives, and what not

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Anonymous   02-15-2009 at 05:01:05 AM
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I am looking into cooling my cpu

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Anonymous   02-15-2009 at 05:04:56 AM
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build: i7 920
EVGA X58
Mushkin 6g
Vista 64
Full tower Thermaltake Xaser XI
Velociraptor 10000 rpm
1000W Corsair psu
xfx 260 gpu

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db140   02-15-2009 at 05:06:39 AM
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ok that's simple enough... From what i have read around the

Swiftech Apogee™ GTZ Universal CPU Waterblock with the lga 1366 adapter would be a good Cpu water block for you...
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/ [...] tml?tl=g30

as for pump and radiator that depends on what size hose you want to use... if your just cooling ur cpu i think 3/8 will be fine for you and a 240 radiator i think will work

check out these for the pump and radiator
http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g3 [...] Page1.html
http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g3 [...] Page1.html

now i like swiftech product but that's for you to chose... and also you need to decide if your wanting to do a closed loop or one with a reservoir.


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Bronze Overclocking badge Shadow703793   02-15-2009 at 05:02:54 PM
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@OP Please read:

 

+1 for a custom loop. Don't bother with kit's most kits are cr@p.

Conumdrum wrote :

 

My standard noob cut n paste:

 

I'll steer you to some more technical links, please spend a few days (DAYS) reading posts, searching, learning. Don't forget to look for your case with WC. Google your case and the word watercool or some combination of that. WC stuff is larger than you think, I know from experience. WC setups done right are awesome and almost silent.

 

Great place, not wayyy over the top with uber WC guys.
http://www.ocforums.com/index.php
Uber place, owned by one of the worlds winning OC guys in the world. Not a place to post or ask questions by noobs, but an awesome place to learn.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/
Another good place to learn
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooling/
Great places to buy WC stuff
http://www.dangerden.com/index.php [...] e&Itemid=1
http://www.petrastechshop.com/
http://www.jab-tech.com/

 

Hope it helps, see ya in a few days, get edumacated!

 

Checkout:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=202394
^
Read the leak testing guide very well.

 


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Bronze Overclocking badge Conumdrum   02-15-2009 at 07:55:14 PM
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Yep, thats a good link Shadow. The filter he used really isn't needed anymore with more modern stuff, otherwise, very solid and not full of wrong stuff.

Here is another build help link, one I wrote for someone else somewhere else.

http://forums.extremeoverclocking. [...] p?t=312743

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Bronze Overclocking badge Shadow703793   02-16-2009 at 09:40:44 PM
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^Correct. The filter is no longer needed when you have Kill Coils :).

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Bronze Overclocking badge Conumdrum   02-17-2009 at 05:38:02 AM
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Correction. The filter is needed with old rad designs and oddities from the old days. Not an issue in todays loops with proper prep.

A Ians Killcoils (sold at Petras) is a replacement for a biocide. It's a coil of pure flat silver wire, silver is a great biocide, as is a copper compound in a liquid solution, like PT/PHN Nuke.

Please Shadow, expound a bit on your posts, you are really misleading in your reply this time. No time to post what really helps folks? Wait till next time.

Shadow, your a major help in the WC issue here, so don't take it wrong.

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rubix_1011   02-17-2009 at 04:13:01 PM
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By the time I get here to post, you guys have scraped up all the good stuff. :|

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Bronze Overclocking badge Conumdrum   02-17-2009 at 06:35:07 PM
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For $450 I can build an awesome more effective CPU/GPU loop than the one you listed Psycho. It seems to work okay except in really high wattage situations with a overclocked i7, then it just fails.

And thats not from review sites, thats from real users.

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Bronze Overclocking badge Shadow703793   02-17-2009 at 06:54:26 PM
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Conumdrum wrote :

Correction. The filter is needed with old rad designs and oddities from the old days. Not an issue in todays loops with proper prep.

 

A Ians Killcoils (sold at Petras) is a replacement for a biocide. It's a coil of pure flat silver wire, silver is a great biocide, as is a copper compound in a liquid solution, like PT/PHN Nuke.

 

Please Shadow, expound a bit on your posts, you are really misleading in your reply this time. No time to post what really helps folks? Wait till next time.

 

Shadow, your a major help in the WC issue here, so don't take it wrong.


Oh, lol, yeah I was sick over the week end, hence some of the buggy posts (this isn't the only one for that day; there were a few and were fixed). I stand corrected. ;)


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