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new to water cooling
Well I recently built my own machine, specs as follows
All of this inside of a Lian Li mid-size ATX case: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (stock cooled and OC'd from 2.2 to 2.6 GHz) Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo (nForce 590) XFX GeForce 8800 GTS (OC'd to 620 core, 1000 vram with stock cooling) 2 GB of G-Skill DDR2 800 MHz SoundBaster Audigy2 ZS Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM 30 gig SATA, and a Caviar 320 gig SATA 680W Apevia PSU + some other minor things, DVD drives, floppy, etc. stuff you dont need to know. So I'm wanting to get into trying to overclock this thing better than I'm able to right now. I've always done air cooling, and this case has plenty of fans (2 120mm [one on the front, one on the side] and 2 90mm's [top and back]. Keeps it decently cool, CPU temp never rises above 45c under load, but when I try pushing the 2.6 boundary, I get the inevitable freeze and reboot. Same thing goes for the video card. Now I know there aren't many water cooled solutions for the 8800 GPU yet, though Swiftech recently made an adapter plate for the MCW60 GPU waterblock to use with it, which you can get with VRAM heatsinks. Now, I know I want to go with swiftech for the waterblocks, since they also make this MCW-Ramcool water block specifically for GeForce cards. Most of the parts I get will be swiftech, but my question is, since i have quite limited room in my case (mid-size ATX which is being hogged mostly by the gigantic video card and the side case fan), what sort of pump/reservior/radiator do you folks suggest for the setup I plan? Considering the limited space I figure I may need to keep some of the parts external...so even then let me know what you folks think. Thanks in advance. |
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