What do I need for water cooling

[Tex-Twil]

Hi,
as I'm looking for a setup which is as silent as possible, I had a look at this card. I never did anything with water cooling and I guess that besides such a card, I'd need other things (pump, radiator, tubes ..) to set this up.

What exactly is needed ? Does a water cooling run without any fans ? That's what would particularly interest me because I want silence

cheers,
Tex

 

[marcellis22]

Get a kit like this...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106108

You can get more connects to add the video card and anything else that might have a water cooler interface. Otherwise, use the largest fans that will fit your case, 120+mm, to cool the hard drives and such. Larger fans can move more air at lower RPMs than their smaller counterparts and keep the noise down.

 

[Timop]

Water-cooling needs at least 2 fans for the radiator, more if you want to run a whole loop with GPU blocks, plus you get the sound of the pump, so its not close to silent as you think. There are external fan-less radiators available, but they are about the size if your case and cools pretty badly.

For low-noise, there are passive GPU/CPU cooler around, and extra quiet fans for sale.

Unless you're sure on what you're doing, Id refrain from a custom water loop as improper setup might damage your board. There are closed water loops for thr CPU/GPU though, but honestly you'd be better off with a air cooler, quiet fans and a fan controller.

 

[Tex-Twil]

ok, so beside the card I posted, I would need a complete water cooling kit. It would be very expensive. I'll stick with a classic fan cooling system.

Thanks.

 

[Tex-Twil]

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