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Special Request for Someone Who Really Knows Watercooling...

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chazdraves

Golden Member
At this point I must say I'm willing to admit how terribly little I know about water cooling. I would like to ask that, should anyone be willing, that someone please price out a nice and complete water cooling kit. I'll list my parts below. Thank you very much, as I realize this could require some fair share of time.

A64 3000+
eVGA GeForce 6800GT
Chieftec Dragon Case
Asus K8V

If I forgot something that would be important for water cooling, just let me know. I would probably be willing to spend somewhere between $200 and $300, if that's achieveable... I know I've looked at some of the DangerDen (is that right?) stuff and it would be far over that price, but I believe it can be found for less... Again, thank you very much for your time!

- Chaz
 
A lot depends on what you want to water cool. If you were just looking to cool the CPU, then $300 is not out of the question. Adding support chipset cooler adds just a little more. Cooling your 6800 with Danger Den's cooler adds a WHOLE lot more!

The most important advice I can give you is to stay with 1/2" I.D. tubing and fittings. Also, stay away from the Hydor L30 pumps. I'm using one now, but it has a tendency to not want to start.:frown: I'm definately going to be up gradingto a Danger Den 12 volt dc pump.

Also, remeber, the more you cool, the more heat is going to be dumped into the room.

And, stick with all copper blocks and rediator. Use distilled H2O with some Water Wetter from Redline (@ DangerDen). Some dye is nice (go with the blue, looks cool).

Avoid the Tygon tubing! Mine got all cloudy. Stick with the buck a foot stuff. Cooltechnica.com has good tubing.

If you want quieter, stick with 120mm fan and radiator. See Danger Den again. If you have the room (I'm not too familiar with your case), you might want to go with the dual 120mm radiator if your going to cool you CPU, chipset and Vid card. You can have the radiator outside of the case. This might require some engineering of your own.

One last piece of advice. If you can, engineer the system as a whole component that can be removed from your rig. Plan where you want everything to go. Assemble it in the case. Remove. Fill. Leak test. If no leaks, then reinstall. Mine was so complicated, I needed another person to help me put mine in.

Let us know how it goes. Welcome to the fun world of H2O cooling. No longer the dark art!
 
Thank you, very helpful indeed!

I'm curious... would anyone be able to price me up a complete set (vid card, cpu, etc.) of Danger Den stuff with 1/2" tubes (can you go bigger?) and all those wonderous little extras, just so I have some idea of what it would cost for the "creme de la creme"-style setup? I'd greatly appreciate it.

- Chaz
 
I recommend that you visit ocforums.com. Go to the water cooling section and read all of the stickies. Ask about water cooling there too. The people there are way more into it, than on Anandtech.

Dangerden.com is a great place to buy your equipment. There prices are good and they carry excellent products.
 
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