Custome watercooling brand/price check

[ChuckFx]

I have built my rig and played a bit with closed loop watercooling but for my next build I want to try custom watercooling and I want to know what I have to expect in terms of prices and which brand will be suit my needs.

I plan to keep my 4770k and re-use my H100i if I can (not sure it is a good idea). I will go most likely GTX 880 SLI. I will get a Corsair Obsidian 750D. This will be a gaming rig only.

What can I expect for prices and and which brand will work best?

 

[dma0991]

A rough estimate should be near $1000, could be more, could be less. This cost includes pumps, reservoir, CPU waterblock, GPU waterblocks, radiators, tubing, fittings and a new case. The Corsair 750D might work but it'll be a tight fit with the minimum number of radiators needed.

You shouldn't reuse the Corsair H100i because it takes up radiator space that could be put to better use in a CPU + GPU loop. Brand doesn't matter since you'll have to mix and match parts from several brands.

 

[z1ggy]

A rough estimate should be near $1000, could be more, could be less. This cost includes pumps, reservoir, CPU waterblock, GPU waterblocks, radiators, tubing, fittings and a new case. The Corsair 750D might work but it'll be a tight fit with the minimum number of radiators needed.

You shouldn't reuse the Corsair H100i because it takes up radiator space that could be put to better use in a CPU + GPU loop. Brand doesn't matter since you'll have to mix and match parts from several brands.

Eh, $1000 is pushing it. I just priced out a custom loop for 1 CPU block, 1 GPU block, 1x360rad + fans, 1x240rad +fans, EK D5 top + res, MCP655 (pump), 10ft tubing, coolant + biocide, various bitspower compression fittings, & UV lighting for $803.

OP could sub out the compression fittings for just barbs and some worm drive clamps to save around $50-75, depending on his tube routing.

Also, a 750D should be fine. There is room in that case for something like 960mm of overall rad space if you really want to push it. It might be tight if you really did that much, but it should work.

 

[ChuckFx]

Ok thx for the infos... this is more expensive than expected. For the case, what would be a good choice, I have the space to do cable managing and be at ease to do the watercooling? Price for the case is from 100 to 200 (can go 250 for somethign really special).

 

[z1ggy]

Ok thx for the infos... this is more expensive than expected. For the case, what would be a good choice, I have the space to do cable managing and be at ease to do the watercooling? Price for the case is from 100 to 200 (can go 250 for somethign really special).

Your 750D will be fine. It's a full size tower... It doesn't really get much bigger than that. You could of course get the 900D, but that's out of your price range.

You can easily fit a thick 360 rad up top and a thick 280 rad in front and be fine temp wise.

Check out overclock.net (aka OCN) for LOTS of water cooling info. AT isn't the best place for getting lots of info on it. You can go right to the 750D owners club at OCN and see how other builders like yourself set up their 750D's for water cooling.

 

[aigomorla]

Ok thx for the infos... this is more expensive than expected. For the case, what would be a good choice, I have the space to do cable managing and be at ease to do the watercooling? Price for the case is from 100 to 200 (can go 250 for somethign really special).

well the problem is your gpu blocks alone will probably break you 300 dollars.
880GTX assuming when they will come out will probably be 140 dollars each on average. Then add a CPU block to increase your price to another 100, along with a board block, because now that u have no air going though your Northbridge, so it is highly recommended u also watercool that.
So a board block would probably increase it another 75.. giving u a total of 475 just on the waterblocks.

Then you would need a radiator with sufficient capacity to cool those cards down.

I can see you getting away with a thick 120x3 radiator assuming you wont overclock much on the cpu, but again, i would need to ask how great of a cooling system you wanted and if you even cared about the CPU end of cooling.

I would assume it would probably cost you more realistically, 700 dollars with decient performance... roughly a 5-7C temp differential on the coolant.

However that type of differential is considered performance.
If you dont mind having a higher temp differential, 7-10C u could probably save about 100 dollars, and if u didnt want to watercool your cpu, you could also save another 100 dollars.