asetek GPU/CPU/Chipset single 120mm water cooling kit

[mdchesne]

this is the single 120mm radiator kit with the CPU/GPU/chipset waterblocks

1) taking off the stock cooling for video cards now-a-days takes off not only the GPU HSF but often the memory's as well. What thrid party memory heatsinks should I get if I cool the GPU via waterblock? Looking into the all copper heatsinks by vantec on newegg, but that's all i've found so far.

2) I have a MSI Neo4 Platinum motherboard. The chipset is relatively close to the end of the video card (I have an x800xl now and the end overlaps the screw holes where the chipset HSF mounts). will this be a problem with the asetek shipset waterblock? It looks small enough, and with the holes pointing straight up, it shouldn't interfere unless the next gen card has extra large capacitors at the end...?

3) Has anyone tried/bought/reviewed the single 120mm version of this kit? I've seen the comparisons between the dual and triple kits, but not the single. any first hand experience would be helpful.

4) I have a lianli pc-60 case with a ModStream 520watt PSU. for the way the power cables are insulated (first with an EMF shield and then a 1/8 plastic tube), it makes bending nearly impossible for the larger cables (motherboard power cable mainly). Plus, the location of the top 80mm blowhole is really close to the PSU and where the power cables come out. Sites that had the 120mm fan+radiator in a pc-60 had the radiator mounted where the blowhole is (by cutting a 12cm hole in the top). But looking into my case now, I wouldn't be able to cut out the grill and screw holes without going too close to my PSU. Ideas? I could try to bend the power cables around the radiator, but it might press against the radiator too much or not even have enough room with a 120mm fan there. Any way to externally mount it? And if so, maybe I'll upgrade to the dual 120 radiator.

also, it looks like I'm going to have to take out the HDD cage to fit the pump and reservoir. can a 160gb and 80gb HDDs sit in the 3 1/2 floppy bays and still stay cool enough? The pics in the link show the guy did so, but I've always been loathe to have a HDD in stagnant air.

 

[biostud]

Personally I've just placed the tripple radiator standing on the side, on top of my cabinet with the tube coming out of one of the brackets in the rear of my cabinet. I needed to get some an extra y-power cable and an extension cord, and only had 20cm tube left, but it works fine.

I got some heatsinks for my card, although they're not low profile so I might need to replace them if I get a PCIe card. So just get some which are low profile, it won't matter too much.

Although I don't have much experience I think a single fan radiator would need quite a powerfull (and noisy) fan to get good cooling if you need to cool all three parts on it.

btw the new pump looks quite different than the old one, and I find it quite nice. It's cool to be able to control it with software.

 

[mdchesne]

I was tooling with the idea of having it outside the case. I'd rather have it inside, but because it's not a tower case, I really don't have the option of putting a radiator, pump and reservoir in the same case. So if I have a dual 120 radiator on the outside (which is fine, I like the idea), i need to think of where to put the pump and res. Most people have those on the bottom of their case, but in order for it to fit in mine, I'd need ot remove the HDD cage and move the two current HDDs into the floppy bays (which is fine as long as the internal case temp doesn't get too high). But I plan to get dual 74gig raptors and if I can't put them in the HDD cage right in front of two nice 80mm fans, I have to get some whiney, loud POS HDD cooler in the top two 5 1/4 bays.
I'm wondering it I could fabricate some kind of shelf that could be screwed into the bottom of the second-to-the-top 5 1/4 bay and I could mount the pump up there... leaving the HDD bay alone. would there be an issue with the pump and res at this height? I guess it would make it hard to refill the res... ... or would the pump/res be too big to fit in the area of 2 5 1/4 bays?

 

[biostud]

you have to remember the fittings are on the top of the new pump/resevoir so it need some extra space since it's limitied how much you can bend the tubes. The pump is not very wide though so you might be able to place it in the mid bottom of your cabinet, as the cabinet seems quite wide. I can post some pics later (in 10-11 hours).