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2015/04/01 14:58:44 (permalink)
Hi folks I need some assistance if you all don't mind . I will be getting 2 titan x hydrocoppers once they release but I'm new to water cooling . Could you fine folks lead me in the right directions as far as a good parts list for the build?

This will be my first water cooling build outside of simply using an AIO solution with nxt brackets and being I'm an old man I could use some gentle hand holding .
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    HOWARD70
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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 15:07:23 (permalink)
    More info on your rig is needed. Esp. the case that u are using.
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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 15:19:31 (permalink)
    No problem at all my case is as follows
    Rise ATX Full Tower Game Case - Rosewill - E-ATX, 2 PSU, 7 Fans
    bought brom newegg and has holes to exterior for plumbing I assume

    I have an asus x99-a motherboard
    currently using a corsair closed loop water system top mounted for my cpu

    Photon 1050 watt power supply
    32 gb gskill 3000mhz ddr4

    Two internal Seagate 3TB drives

    Two external 5tb Seagate drives

    Two gskill ram coolers (just top mount on ram with fans blowing down upon them)

    does this help at all?

    Thanks for looking over my build and for responding :-)
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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 15:33:56 (permalink)
    smallsbig
    No problem at all my case is as follows
    Rise ATX Full Tower Game Case - Rosewill - E-ATX, 2 PSU, 7 Fans
    bought brom newegg and has holes to exterior for plumbing I assume

    I have an asus x99-a motherboard
    currently using a corsair closed loop water system top mounted for my cpu

    Photon 1050 watt power supply
    32 gb gskill 3000mhz ddr4

    Two internal Seagate 3TB drives

    Two external 5tb Seagate drives

    Two gskill ram coolers (just top mount on ram with fans blowing down upon them)

    does this help at all?

    Thanks for looking over my build and for responding :-)

    I think EK has waterblock for the Titan X.
    I would suggest going those plus one of there watercooling kits.
    That's exactly what I did
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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 16:02:14 (permalink)
    Is your goal to make it look cool or to make it functional? I do external watercooling.  It's way easier to change things and plumb things together, but it doesn't look as cool as someone who has 40 radiators tucked into their case with hardline tubing out the ass.
     
    Saw + wood + screws + hotglue you can build yourself a nice little multi-level platform you set on top of your case with the reservoir, pump, and a 480 rad that can then connect all your components together via the two holes in the back of your case.  XSPC dual bay reservoir, any of the D5 pumps (Koolance PMP-450), mount the reservoir higher than the pump, connect it all together with Primochill Adavnced LRT tubing, bitspower 1/2" barbs, alphacool radiator and you've got yourself a full watercooling setup.

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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 16:14:20 (permalink)
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    Is your goal to make it look cool or to make it functional? I do external watercooling.  It's way easier to change things and plumb things together, but it doesn't look as cool as someone who has 40 radiators tucked into their case with hardline tubing out the ass.
     
    Saw + wood + screws + hotglue you can build yourself a nice little multi-level platform you set on top of your case with the reservoir, pump, and a 480 rad that can then connect all your components together via the two holes in the back of your case.  XSPC dual bay reservoir, any of the D5 pumps (Koolance PMP-450), mount the reservoir higher than the pump, connect it all together with Primochill Adavnced LRT tubing, bitspower 1/2" barbs, alphacool radiator and you've got yourself a full watercooling setup.

    You're joking, right?
    His first time and you're telling home about wood and saws wnd hotgule. That's crazy
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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 16:21:45 (permalink)
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    Is your goal to make it look cool or to make it functional? I do external watercooling.  It's way easier to change things and plumb things together, but it doesn't look as cool as someone who has 40 radiators tucked into their case with hardline tubing out the ass.
     
    Saw + wood + screws + hotglue you can build yourself a nice little multi-level platform you set on top of your case with the reservoir, pump, and a 480 rad that can then connect all your components together via the two holes in the back of your case.  XSPC dual bay reservoir, any of the D5 pumps (Koolance PMP-450), mount the reservoir higher than the pump, connect it all together with Primochill Adavnced LRT tubing, bitspower 1/2" barbs, alphacool radiator and you've got yourself a full watercooling setup.

    You're joking, right?
    His first time and you're telling home about wood and saws wnd hotgule. That's crazy

     
    What I'm describing is very basic.  IT takes way more effort to try to fit a bunch of radiators internally to a case than to glue some bits of wood together to support a rad, pump, and reservoir.
     

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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 16:27:06 (permalink)
    My goal is functionality and ease of install over good looks . Obviously I'm sinking some money into the cards lol so saving a few bucks is a consideration but just let putting it together and it working is top priority here . You guys are great thanks for all the input thus far
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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 16:29:52 (permalink)
    I think I see where you're going with that ..wood frame with ratiator and those tube on the sides type of deal? I just went so long without being into hard core builds that this knowledge just never got a chance to enter into my toolbox if you can dig it ..last time I built a serious rig was when ati 4870hd were king of the hill
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    Re: New to water cooling need some help 2015/04/01 16:31:00 (permalink)
    Here's what I started with:
     



    Yeah nowadays I'm on rev9 of that where it's +$4k later and everything looks neater and is ultra high performance, but the gist is the same.  By having everything outside the case you can have 1 giant radiator instead of plumbing together 4 smaller ones.  And you can worry more about the mechanics of watercooling instead of the aesthetics / fitment part.
     
    Basically alls you have to do is puts some plywood under that, velcro, and stack up some segments of wood to elevate the reservoir above the pump and there you go.
     
    Here's rev 6 I think:

     
    At this point I had dual loops, the reservoir is above the pumps, and instead of radiators I use water to water heat exchangers.  It takes up more space than plumbing everything internal, obviously. (and at this point I started getting fancy having inline temp sensors on everything...the 4x black squares inline with the celar tubing on the right).
    post edited by AnonymousGuy - 2015/04/01 16:37:12

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