Which Water Cooling System?

A prebuilt kit would be a good start. This kit has good reviews. Also, the Apogee GTZ CPU water-block is better than the one in the H20-220 kit.

H20-220 Apex Ultima Plus
http://www.swiftnets.com/products/H20-220-APEX-ULTIMA-p...

The specs say i7 LGA 1366 is compatible, but I don't see the part. Ask the seller or get this as well:

Apogee-GTZ-Ci7
socket 1366 hold-down plate

Find Apogee-GTZ-Ci7 on this page for pic:

http://www.swiftnets.com/products/APOGEE-gtz.asp

The GTX 280 & 285 PCBs look identical to me. I think the bundled VGA waterblock will fit:

http://www.overclockers.ru/images/news/2009/01/10/285-p...

If not, wait for the 285 waterblock to be out shortly. Yes, you can hook up only cpu to w/c for now. Or even both cpu & chipset.

http://www.swiftech.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1002

Lastly, the kit comes with cpu/chipset/gpu blocks & everything else except coolant. The bundled bottle is an additive. Mix it with distilled water for about $2 at most supermarkets. Do NOT get deionized water. It's not as good as distilled for this application.

What case do you have?

And while you're at it - list all your parts so we know what's in the case that might conflict with the different water cooling kits.

Hi, the parts are -

Antec Black Twelve Hundred Tower Case
Gigabyte S1366 Intel X58 DDR3 ATX Audio 2GbE Lan 3 Channel
Intel Nehalem i7 940 S1366 2.93GHz
Enermax Revolution 850W PSU - 91% Efficiency Certified
XFX GTX 285 1GB DDR3 Dual Link DVI Black Edition 690/2.6Ghz
OCZ 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Kit CL8 1.65V
Samsung 1TB 7200RPM 32MB S300 3.5"
Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Soundcard


Thats the lot for the case. I was told by another member of this forum that the case would be too much bit I was thinking of space inside, and it has had a lot of good comments about it. What do u think?

Thanks for all your help and advice.

the PSU may be hit and miss but I don't know if enermax has improved or not so have another PSU in mind.

and if your overclocking then save yourslef the money and get a i7 920 D0 since they currently overclock the furthest out of the i7's.

What do you think of the gfx card? Do u think it makes a difference to the manifacturer of the card when choosing one? I have never used XFX before so Im not too sure how good it will be.

Thanks again for all your advice  

Hi, the parts are -

Antec Black Twelve Hundred Tower Case
Gigabyte S1366 Intel X58 DDR3 ATX Audio 2GbE Lan 3 Channel
Intel Nehalem i7 940 S1366 2.93GHz
Enermax Revolution 850W PSU - 91% Efficiency Certified
XFX GTX 285 1GB DDR3 Dual Link DVI Black Edition 690/2.6Ghz
OCZ 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Kit CL8 1.65V
Samsung 1TB 7200RPM 32MB S300 3.5"
Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Soundcard


Thats the lot for the case. I was told by another member of this forum that the case would be too much bit I was thinking of space inside, and it has had a lot of good comments about it. What do u think?

Thanks for all your help and advice.

Hi I have changed the power supply to this one - Coolermaster 1100W UCP (Ultimate Circuit Protection) PSU - 80% Bronze Certified Efficiency

I hear that the 920 can be overclocked to 3.2 from a 2.6. Do u think that I will have enough powe with this one?

Thanks again for your help and advice