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Check out Linus' review on the x61 and it will show you how well it is

@SuperSnowPlays I had the same issue with my HD 7870 Ghz from gigabyte and even tho there is blocks for that chip the gigabyte cards are mainly non reference which means a lot of water block manufacturers won't cater to them unless 1000s of people ask for it. Also with most gigabyte cards they are voltage locked which means you can't push more volts into them unless you made your own bios which you will have to do at your own risk. With that card and the windforce cooler you should be at a mac temp of 60℃ on a decent overclock anyway

With anything when it comes to computers I will just say take your time and as long as you do that you will be fine and as you have said you have done some research on it ans I'll say keep researching as you will never have enough knowledge about it. The reason why people test it with water is for a leak test to make sure it doesn't leak. You only have your pump and or fans powered to make sure you don't kill anything while you do this. If you do an air test it may come up ok but as soon as you use a fluid it may leak which means you have wasted time doing the air test. @Imabigmac

You won't need 2 d5 pumps to cool that system as you say it will just make the water flow faster that's all if you want lower temps either more radiator space or higher speed fans

Tbh the pump is the only issue with that kit as it's the same as the EK DCP2.2 which is fine for a single block loop but that's about it. I started off with a kit like this one and I have added to it since

I dont know if this would help but was there any plastic on the waterblock that you didn't remove

For me I would choose a kit over mist aio due to the rad being aluminum which can decrease the heat dissipation. The only aio coolers I would reccomend would be the glacer 240 by cooler master or the h220x by swiftech as they are also expandable and have copper radiators over all the others

To be honest I would go option 2 but without the rear rad as you only have 2 blocks. I have 480mm for my loop and I don't have aircon and thru summer it doesn't overheat at all Edit: Damn auto correct

when you get the new block on monday if its not the block i can almost gaurantee that it will be the pump as it doesnt have the pressure and or flow rate of the multi blocks as you can see with those temps. it might be fine if there was only 2 blocks but since you have 3 blocks and 2 rads in there that means there is 3 major points of resistance and the water is going to slow down to the point that the water cant move the heat away fast enough. your best bet would be to get either a Laing DDC or D5 pump and they will last alot longer and also more reliable

@ZeroSix i would suggest not getting the ASUS ROG Poseidon GTX 780 as the waterblock that is preinstalled on these cards are only for the GPU and also it is aluminium which means you would have to worry about corrosion in the loop. the best bet is to get a card that comes with either a fullcover block (eg. EVGA Hydro Copper) or getting a card that is air cooled to test it then install a waterblock on to that card

I didn't say anything about the pressure at different points of the loop I'm saying overall pressure look at the resistance of the blocks, radiators(even tho it will be low) and the fittings and then add it all and see how it much pressure the pump can push in comparisonhttp://martinsliquidlab.org/pump-planning-guide/

@levsingh the reason the 290x or any gpu won't be that hot as they are on air is because they take to water a lot better then cpus will ever be

firstly since your pump is only the DCP 4.0 the flow rate on that pump is 800L/H and head pressure is 4.0m but they are the maximum which means it will have to be running at 12v. make sure your pump is running at 100% and if it is then i think that the pump is the issue with these temps. even with my loop and i am running overclocked CPU and GPU and i dont even get any where those temps for either chips and also check your tubing to make sure there isnt any kinks in them or anything that could slow the flow down as that is the only reason i can think of to why you are getting the temps you are getting

@Faceman I'm not saying that it will not bottleneck once going multi GPUs I'm saying single card wont have much of an issue in most cases. He was saying that the FX-8000 series WILL bottleneck anything over a GTX 660 which is completely false

im sorry you are completely misinformed about the AMD CPUs as i am running a FX-6300 with a R9 290 and i do NOT bottleneck the GPU as the GPU is at 100% with all games i play and the highest CPU usage i get is only 65%. if you are going to tell people that a product line isnt worthy without even trying it yourself you dont even have a leg to stand on. yes i know you are an intel fanboy by just looking at your pic but you saying this doesnt help anyone as you are misinforming them about products that you havent even touched and experienced yourself. if you want i will run performance shots of my rig and i will prove once and for all that AMD CPUs are worthy of ANY card

well i think if my fx 6300 doesnt bottleneck a R9 290 then i think that if you slightly overclock the chip to like 4.2Ghz+ then there would be no issue. i would recommend a aftermarket cooler but i would say either a noctua or dark rock 3 cooler as that will keep the temps down and will be quiet

it all depends on the rest of your system. if the power supply you have is sufficient enough to handle both cards then that helps but does your local store offer the never settle bundle and is there any game on there that you want as well. as everyone has said that 32gb ssd is pretty useless unless you use it as a cache drive for your mechanical drives. it also all depends on if you need cuda cores or not. with the whole driver issues on the AMD side i can not complaion about them as i have always had nvidia due to ATI/AMD drivers being so terrible but now they are great and my dads system (GTX590) has more issues with his drivers this year then i have since i got my rig.

The EX series doesnt have a shroud like the AX series does so those numbers are wrong. Plus the EX series has a split fin design with favours the higher static pressure low RPM fans as I have seen. The AX series is slightly thicker but it does have a shroud over the rad it's self so that is why it's thicker. Out of the 3 dads you have picked I would choose the 360 as it's a bigger rad then the 280 then the 240. The reason I chose that order is surface area

i would say go a 360mm rad instead of the 240 for the 2 blocks as it will give you more headroom for overclocks or have lower RPM fans. it will help knowing which case you are using so we know what size rads we can suggest to you

they should be better then the stock fans but i cant find any info on the static pressure of the stock fans anywhere

you should be able to hit 4.7 and get lower temps. going by that chart it should be 7c lower then your d14 but there is a lot of factors that come into play which is ambient temps and also the fans used on each cooler

firstly RTFM of course, try and look on youtube to see if your card or block has a video on there. and the biggest thing i can say is like anything to do with watercooling is TAKE YOUR TIME

it looks like a good cooler but i wont say it will help you get to 4.7ghz as it could be your chip/motherboard thats stopping you form getting there

All good. You should mark the topic as answered so people will know that its been answered

yes the 1150 socket is compatible use the same stock cooler 1155 &1156 sockets so the mounting bracket is the same. yes you can watercool the GTX770 and the places to get the block from is frozenCPU or performance-pcs