How would I go about water cooling this build?

[GeekStories]

So first off this is my build:
cpu - AMD FX-6300 Six Core @ 3.5 Ghz
gpu - AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB
motherboard - ASUSTeK M5A97 R2.0
psu - 700W
ram - 8GB DDR3
case - Zalman Z3 plus

I would like to know how I could water cool this build, in fact any information would be useful.
Thanks in advance!

 

[basroil]

No sense in water cooling that thing since you're better off selling the chip+mobo and getting an i5 rig (which won't need water cooling)

If you must use that for some reason:
1) You'll need a larger AIO for CPU alone or ~360mm total radiator space for CPU+GPU using a custom cooler
2) You'll need to overclock that CPU to ~5GHz for that CPU to keep up with the 390

 

[GeekStories]

No sense in water cooling that thing since you're better off selling the chip+mobo and getting an i5 rig (which won't need water cooling)

If you must use that for some reason:
1) You'll need a larger AIO for CPU alone or ~360mm total radiator space for CPU+GPU using a custom cooler
2) You'll need to overclock that CPU to ~5GHz for that CPU to keep up with the 390

Hmm. Alright. Well, I've put most of my money and time in to this and it runs everything I want it too at the moment. So I don't really want to be swapping and changing more parts, I just generally want to lower temps as my current cooling is all stock that came with the parts I bought.. So how about better air cooling or even water blocks? Or what are some decent fans/air cooling I could use,

Thanks for the water cooling advice though. I will take it in to consideration for future builds!

 

[rounakr94]

Get a Hyper 212 Evo/Cryorig H7(best) It should be enough to cool fx 6300

 

[basroil]

So how about better air cooling or even water blocks? Or what are some decent fans/air cooling I could use,

Spending more than $30 would be a very bad idea since that thing will always be CPU limited in modern games. Like sair above, the 212evo is your best bet simply because you can get is for ~$25

 

[GeekStories]

So how about better air cooling or even water blocks? Or what are some decent fans/air cooling I could use,

Spending more than $30 would be a very bad idea since that thing will always be CPU limited in modern games. Like sair above, the 212evo is your best bet simply because you can get is for ~$25

I'll take a look in to it, getting that I might need to get a new case too.

Also, cpu limited? In what way? Because I'm handling games such as fallout 4 and gtav and the new Tomb Raider on ultra settings at 60fps, 1080p (You probably mean something different though, as you can probably tell I'm still new to this) :lol:

Thanks for the help though!!

 

[basroil]

I'll take a look in to it, getting that I might need to get a new case too.

Also, cpu limited? In what way? Because I'm handling games such as fallout 4 and gtav and the new Tomb Raider on ultra settings at 60fps, 1080p (You probably mean something different though, as you can probably tell I'm still new to this) :lol:

Thanks for the help though!!

Try BF4 in a 64 person server and you'll see what I mean. Just because you average 60fps doesn't mean you keep 60fps, especially not in gta V when explosions happen!

 

[GeekStories]

I'll take a look in to it, getting that I might need to get a new case too.

Also, cpu limited? In what way? Because I'm handling games such as fallout 4 and gtav and the new Tomb Raider on ultra settings at 60fps, 1080p (You probably mean something different though, as you can probably tell I'm still new to this) :lol:

Thanks for the help though!!

Try BF4 in a 64 person server and you'll see what I mean. Just because you average 60fps doesn't mean you keep 60fps, especially not in gta V when explosions happen!

I played BF4 perfectly fine on a bottle necked pc (before the motherboard upgrade) on a server half that size!
But I'll download it again and test it out and see what you mean, maybe, if I can find a server that big from where I am located
And I'll also do the same with GTAV, lots of explosions and see what happens!

But I may just go with that cooler.. Maybe. I'll have to do some research first for dimensions as its really tall compared to my case.