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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/28 14:10:57 (permalink)
Yea that's what I was worried about with the 5930K putting out more heat. I wish he gave some temps with his setup, I guess I'll have to decide whether to go with my current case using a 360 on top and a 240 in front. Or get a 900D and start off with 2 480 rads, the thing I don't like about the 900D is it does not have a side panel fan. I guess I can mod one into there though.

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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/28 14:26:30 (permalink)
I would not worry about it, I ran off of 2 thin 360's an X58 with a 50% OC, VRM block, mobo block, 2 580s (for a little while an 8800 Ultra for PhysX) and my temps were amazing.  Your X99 will make more heat, but your cards will make a bvit less than my 580s, especially with the clock I had on them.  Do I think this will be the coldest running water loop on the forums, not likely, but will it be cool enough to have a distinct drop in temps and do so with clocks and low fan noise, yes I am pretty confident in that.
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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/28 14:30:04 (permalink)
Thanks for your help, info, and opinion Dave.

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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/28 14:38:31 (permalink)
No worries, always glad to help, especially when it is for clocking and cooling!
 
No that we got that out of the way, lets get this thing done and see some pics and bench numbers.
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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/29 11:46:22 (permalink)
Last night when I got home from work I installed the 980 Ti classifieds replace the 980 SC ACX 2.0 cards. Fired up some GTA 5, and Witcher 3 at 4K just to test it out on stock settings. Ran great, I definitely noticed an improvement over the 980 cards. Only thing I noticed was the top card ran about 4 degrees hotter than the 980 SC card that was previously there. I'm assuming that the Ti cards use more power and put off more heat. I just adjusted my fan profile a little and all is well. Didn't get the chance to take pics of the cards, was around 1 am at the time and just wanted to go to bed as soon as I knew the cards were good to go. I Can't wait to get them under some water-cooling though, I think tonight I'll see how much I can overclock the cards using air cooling.

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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/29 13:29:10 (permalink)
Nice, so you will have before and after data.  Looking forward to pics from the completed project and benching numbers.
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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/30 13:38:45 (permalink)
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You X99 will make a bit of heat, and depending on how much voltage you need those can really become space heaters.  But I think you can expect good temps with that setup.  Infact he has less CPU than you, but here is another build that is using a similar setup.  http://forums.evga.com/Getting-back-in-to-liquid-cooling-m2371325.aspx
Similar in as much as it is 2 Maxwell cards and a CPU. 



how do I know which connectors and tubes I need to order? Or how do I make a list of all the fittings, connectors, tubes I need to connect all of it together.

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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/30 13:53:51 (permalink)
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You X99 will make a bit of heat, and depending on how much voltage you need those can really become space heaters.  But I think you can expect good temps with that setup.  Infact he has less CPU than you, but here is another build that is using a similar setup.  http://forums.evga.com/Getting-back-in-to-liquid-cooling-m2371325.aspx
Similar in as much as it is 2 Maxwell cards and a CPU. 



how do I know which connectors and tubes I need to order? Or how do I make a list of all the fittings, connectors, tubes I need to connect all of it together.


I always thought about watercooling and even started planning it. My advice is to sketch what your loop will look like and then start planning for what connections, hose, blocks, pump, etc that you will need. 
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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/07/30 13:58:46 (permalink)
OK, first off, this will be a lot of basic placement, and some time with a notepad, just easiest.
 
You can rest your rads or even a representation of where the rads will be, as well as your pump and res, the start form the pump, and measure off distance to your first component, now if there is more than a 45 degree turn to go form the pump to the first device, the that will be one rotary fitting of the appropriate angle, the out form that device to the next one, and so forth.  In general you will need 2 fittings per device, you will need a barb or a compression fitting for each, the angle pieces only use where needed, remember the straighter you can keep your tubing the better.
For tubing, once you get all your distances measured, I would add in 1-2 extra feet of tubing, as experienced people sometimes make bad cuts, your first time, you will very likely have to recut stuff, so you should always provision a bit of extra.  I recommend leaving room for some form of a drain at the physically lowest point of the loop, also, if you go with quick disconnects remember you will need fittings for them and also and remember they add weight and depending on placement may cause the tubing to bend.
 
Also, I recommend going with 1/2inch ID x 3/4in OD gives you a easy to use tube, that is harder to flex/bend and less likely to kink in the long run.
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Re: Thinking of watercooling everything, need some advice. 2015/08/07 15:12:31 (permalink)
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OK, first off, this will be a lot of basic placement, and some time with a notepad, just easiest.
 
You can rest your rads or even a representation of where the rads will be, as well as your pump and res, the start form the pump, and measure off distance to your first component, now if there is more than a 45 degree turn to go form the pump to the first device, the that will be one rotary fitting of the appropriate angle, the out form that device to the next one, and so forth.  In general you will need 2 fittings per device, you will need a barb or a compression fitting for each, the angle pieces only use where needed, remember the straighter you can keep your tubing the better.
For tubing, once you get all your distances measured, I would add in 1-2 extra feet of tubing, as experienced people sometimes make bad cuts, your first time, you will very likely have to recut stuff, so you should always provision a bit of extra.  I recommend leaving room for some form of a drain at the physically lowest point of the loop, also, if you go with quick disconnects remember you will need fittings for them and also and remember they add weight and depending on placement may cause the tubing to bend.
 
Also, I recommend going with 1/2inch ID x 3/4in OD gives you a easy to use tube, that is harder to flex/bend and less likely to kink in the long run.




Thanks for the info.

Current RIG
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Primo black case
CPU: Intel I9-13900K
MB: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO
RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB DDR5 5600
PS: EVGA 80 PLUS Platinum 1000 W
SSD: Kingston KC3000 4TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe
GPU: Nvidia 4090
 
Heatware: https://heatware.com/eval.php?id=100702
 

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