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  1. Prophet of Entropy
    780, don't play battlefield or crypto mine, so no reason to get a hotter more power hungry card.
  2. Prophet of Entropy
    yea try without the splitter, pretty sure that's only included to cover people with crappy MBs. use the cpu fan header for the pump and a chassis header for the rad fans.
  3. Prophet of Entropy
    either the contacts aren't making connection with the MB leads or the pump isn't getting enough power to spin (try setting the cpu fan to max speed), or the pump is DOA. whats plugged into assistant fan 1 that reading 5k rpm?
  4. Prophet of Entropy
    you could plug the pwm and tach cable into your cpu header and the +/- leads into your power supply. plug your pump into your MB what RPM is showing at in fan expert?
  5. Prophet of Entropy
    yes you will need to reapply thermal interface material.
  6. Prophet of Entropy
    but there's no real benefit to using it. its an option for looks, not performance.
  7. Prophet of Entropy
    5-10% difference in performance between the tops will give you exactly, ZERO cooling benefit.
  8. Prophet of Entropy
    yes
  9. Prophet of Entropy
    you can get universal GPU blocks that only cool the processor, and you can get some stick on heatsinks or glue some on with thermal adhesieve to cool the vrm and vram modules. add a fan that's blowing on the heatsinks and you have no problem with cooling them. its the old school way of watercooling video cards.
  10. Prophet of Entropy
    40-70W is a lot for idle it should be under 20. so you might have changed something when you over clocked it that's keeping it from powering down at idle, or something is loading your cpu.
  11. Prophet of Entropy
    is your pump still good?(has it started making noise?) what is your CPU's power draw at idle? did it ever idle cool?
  12. Prophet of Entropy
    you could try liquidmetal pro TIM, that might get you 3-5C better. my 2600k at 1.47v @5.1Ghz is around 70-75C with a 19C ambient and 33C coolant @2.9 LPM. But I don't like having the vcore that high, so run it at 1.35 @ 4.8Ghz at 45-60C as my coolant heats up under gpu and cpu load. ive got a 2600k with a koolance 380i block on it, 2 780s with koolance vid-nxttn blocks, a RX-360 and RX-480 rads. (i'm using artic mx-2 TIM on my cpu) im very glad I switched out my 4770k to my HTPC and put the 2600k in my gaming rig, not only am I gonna use less power but my HTPC is essentially silent now that it doesn't have a gtx 590 as its only video out option.
  13. Prophet of Entropy
    you don't need an anti corrosive but, a glycol based additive can help with pump lubrication (pump life) and ethylene glycol coolants are both anti corrosive and antimicrobial since they are toxic. you can use both, or just one.
  14. Prophet of Entropy
    you plan on having 3 AIOs in your case, its gonna look messy. but who cares how it looks. the only reason to spend that extra money on cooling is for silence, if its performance your after, go dual 780s on air for slightly more $$$ and much better performance.
  15. Prophet of Entropy
    could always use copper tube and paint it black and use black coolant in your reservoir. though if I was gonna go copper I'd polish it and clear coat it. but petg plastic is pretty much what carbonated beverage bottles are made of, and some roofing materials, and some currencies and sails and other things I cant think of. its great plastic, doesn't stain, very durable. its hygroscopic so it will absorb water like some other tubing.
  16. Prophet of Entropy
    parallel flow depends on equal restriction in the blocks and an air pocket adds restriction from surface tension. so yea, air pocket. you probably could have just as easily gone with serial flow since EK blocks are so low restriction, even with it being an expanded AIO.
  17. Prophet of Entropy
    that looks kike cheap hardware store pvc tubing. replace all of it.
  18. Prophet of Entropy
    I fear your attempt to watercool on the cheap will lead only to heart ache.
  19. Prophet of Entropy
    if your worried about leaks, use the koolance copper tube fittings. they are uglier but they are the same style of compression fittings used in hydraulic systems that go to into the thousands of PSI working pressure.
  20. Prophet of Entropy
    D5's have a much lower RMA rate then DDCs not because they are bad, but they do have more points of failure. a DDC can have coolant leak directly into pump circuitry, and with out proper cooling it can over heat and burn out, EK is making a heasink cover for DDCs not sure if its in stores yet. the up side to them is they are small, you can position then in any direction (if I recall correctly) and they produce higher pressures then D5s.
  21. Prophet of Entropy
    my D5 is very quiet. but im pretty sure you meant to ask people with All In Ones. since any loop, custom or prefilled that doesn't have an OPEN vent is a CLOSED loop. but my asetek AIO is also quiet but its an old model that isn't sold anymore.
  22. Prophet of Entropy
    this would be a question better asked to NZXT.
  23. Prophet of Entropy
    that case is not designed to easily water cool in it. if your handy with a zip-cutter and enjoy a little metal work you could mod it. if not, buy a case suited to it, like one of Fractals ARC series or Corsairs Obsidian series or something like them. if all your going for an AIO and not a full custom loop, stick with your case and get a Water 2.0 Pro, or just a big air heatsink.
  24. Prophet of Entropy
    your pump top is designed to use soft tube, either buy a new pump top with threaded holes or frankenstine a piece of soft tube with fittings to connect your hardline. like PUMP>hose>compression fitting> female to female coupler>hardline fitting. since your new and probably don't have any spare parts, it would be simpler and cost about the same to just get a pump top with threads, plus it would look better and custom tops provide slightly better performance.
  25. Prophet of Entropy
    you can just use it, but if your pump dies cause your didn't bother to see if there's any crap in your rad left over from manufacturing don't cry to us. they leak test them after assembly, they don't clean them. least not perfectly.
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