[Solved] But... I already HAVE a Thermaltake! Kandalf LCS...

It works OK. It's quiet and has allowed me to overclock my Opteron 185 from 2.6 to 2.8 ghz.

BUT

I have a Phenom II 965 in the mail with a water block, RAM and mobo and a second ASUS Radeon HD4870 1gb... I'm thinking my two Radeons will make it very toasty in there... So I'm looking at a number of possibilities...

1. Mod that Thermaltake LCS into a beast of a watercooling system that will let me cool my Phenom and my two Radeons and even overclock everything.

2. Add something like a Swiftech H20-220 (will it even fit?) to cool the CPU and re-plumb the Kandalf LCS to cool the two Radeons.

3. Add a Coolit Freezone plumbed for two video cards and leave the Kandalf LCS system as is?

So basically I'm actually considering two separate water-cooling loops inside my box...

Any ideas what would work out best?

i had a kandalf lcs but the cooling sucked so i swaped it out modded the case and installed two 360mm rads that solved the cooling problem

Ditto. If you're going to dump that kind of money into watercooling, why not get yoourself a primo case and save yourself some headaches (and lukewarm performance)?

you can swap the front rad with a proper 360mm one thats what i did

i changed them all for performance but its fairly easy to change

currently i got a phase unit -55 idle temps , but my bro uses my old WC and its very good with a quad. the temps went down from a load of over 70c load with a q6600 at 3.6 with 1.5vcore down to 40c load

one 360 rad would be the bare min id say tbh you want at least 480mm worth of rads. but thats not just a new rad im talking new pump res and cpu block also

Coolit... Okay................. Have fun.

Ah, ok, thanks for the information! I thought the TEC was a good idea...

Well for now I have a new water block, a Swiftech Apogee GT, which I hope will, for now, give my WC a bit of a boost?

What's the right upgrade path for tweaking my WC setup into something actually GOOD?

The GT? It's quite an old block....

Id the radiator Aluminum or copper? If it's Aluminum, you WILL need to use anti-freeze(10-25% mix) to stop corrosion. Couldn't find a good pic of the rad in that case.

Next upgrade would be a better pump and rad.

hey Horux, you got no alum in your loop anymore. Can't rememeber what pump you had before. You should be good.

The TT rad isn't the most capable by any measure, but if it's enuff for your temps then your good.

Best of luck. BTW, a TT rad with copper/brass heatpipes and alum fins is just just fine. Rads don't fail.

Black Ice GTX is a noisy very good rad. Look at the sticky at the top of ths forum (watercooling solved) and look up the results for the MCR, Sr-1, and the XSPC RX series and fans needed to cool etc.