How does this liquid cooling setup look?

[Smartazz]

I'm building a new system in a few months if I manage to sell off my current rig which should be pretty easy. It's going to have a Core 2 Duo E6600 which I plan to overclock greatly, 1 8800GTS 640MB(I may acquire a second one for cheap a few months later too, so please keep this in mind for future cooling reasons), and the motherboard is the P5N-E SLI board. I was planning to have 2 GPU full sized coolers, 1 good CPU cooler and a NB cooler because I'm overclocking. The case I'm planning to use is the Thermaltake Armor(which is a large case btw). I'm planning to use FrozenCPU.com for the liquid cooling part since they seem very reliable and their selection is pretty good. Here's my plan for the setup(please don't yell at me if there's something wrong with it, I'm new with this stuff.)

I'm going to buy:
1 CoolingWorks CoolRad-32T Triple 120mm Radiator
1 Hydor SELTZ L 35 II Water Pump (450 GPH) (1/2" ID)
FrozenCPU Red UV Reactive Water Dye - 1 oz. Bottle
(Not too sure about whether or not to get a reservoir or not vs. a T Line, what is better for beginners?)
Danger Den RBX 775 Copper CPU Water Block (Intel 775) (3/8"ID)
Innovatek Cool-Matic G80-GTS GPU+RAM Cooler(1/2"ID)

Setup Plans:
I plan to lie the tri-120mm radiator on the bottom of the Thermaltake Armor with 3 120mm fans pulling air from it cooling it down. The loop will be: pump, radiator, GPU, CPU, reservoir/T Line, then back to the pump. Aigomorla did this with the radiator: http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p73/aigomorla/IMG_0406.jpg I was planning to do the same.

A few quick questions:
How do I install a 3 hose CPU cooler?
Will a radiator that big fit into a Thermaltake Armor?

How does this setup look? It might be a little pricey and I may drop the GPU coolers since the 8800's are very quiet to begin with. Thanks in advance.

 

[trOver]

dont worry aigomorla will look it over soon

 

[designgirl]

Swiftech MCW60 VGA cooler and 8 Ramsinks

D-tek FuZion CPU Water Block

Swiftech MCR320-QP-K Triple 120mm Radiator

Swiftech MCRES-Micro

Swiftech MCP655? 12 VDC Pump --- note: this has a 1/2" builtin fitting. so going with 1/2" barbs will save you some grief.

for tubing: remember, 1/2" ID

go with Tygon --- more expensive but practically the standard

or

Masterkleer --- note: this is 7/16" ID (inner diameter) but works fine, just a little tigher on the barbs. arguably a rival to Tygon and a lot cheaper

For liquid, honestly you don't need all that premade crap. Used distilled water (from the grocery store) and add these

1. to kill algae - biocide

2. your choice of color - Pentosin

worm clamps. buy at like home depot or whatever, like 30 cents each. i know lot's of people use twisty ties or plastic clamps...depends on how risk averse you are i guess but worm clamps for me.

and just to be clear, make sure your barbs are 1/2"

everybody has their preference but I swear these are the best fans....quiet and push quite a bit of air: Yate loon 120mm

hope this helps

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: designgirl
Swiftech MCW60 VGA cooler and 8 Ramsinks

D-tek FuZion CPU Water Block

Swiftech MCR320-QP-K Triple 120mm Radiator

Swiftech MCRES-Micro

Swiftech MCP655? 12 VDC Pump --- note: this has a 1/2" builtin fitting. so going with 1/2" barbs will save you some grief.

for tubing: remember, 1/2" ID

go with Tygon --- more expensive but practically the standard

or

Masterkleer --- note: this is 7/16" ID (inner diameter) but works fine, just a little tigher on the barbs. arguably a rival to Tygon and a lot cheaper

For liquid, honestly you don't need all that premade crap. Used distilled water (from the grocery store) and add these

1. to kill algae - biocide

2. your choice of color - Pentosin

worm clamps. buy at like home depot or whatever, like 30 cents each. i know lot's of people use twisty ties or plastic clamps...depends on how risk averse you are i guess but worm clamps for me.

and just to be clear, make sure your barbs are 1/2"

everybody has their preference but I swear these are the best fans....quiet and push quite a bit of air: Yate loon 120mm

hope this helps

I think that I might go with just a GPU block for now since I want to overclock my card with volt mods, then I'll add the CPU cooler once I need the extra speed for that. I'm def. more gpu limited than cpu limited. This is if I don't rebuilt a new system, but I probably will so well see in a couple months.