Phanteks water cooling

nightmarevoid · July 18, 2020

Hello all. I have a phanteks Evolv shift air case which has the CPU cooler pulling fresh air from outside through the mesh side panel. However, I don't think my AMD wraith prism cooler can actually keep up with the 3700x. The fan is constantly ramping up and down regardless of what I do in asus FanXpert (fan smoothing up/down helps with idle tasks somewhat, but not gaming), and idle sits at around 55-60 C. This leads me to believe that I need a water cooler for more thermal mass. I'm interested in using more of the products offered by Phanteks (they seem to really know my style lol)

Specifically, I wanted to get the Phanteks Glacier C360a which uses a copper water block with nickel plating. I can't really find a radiator that says it uses coper plating internally. Should I just go with a full copper radiator because the copper under the nickel inside of the CPU block will stop the nickel from wanting to deposit inside the radiator (or visa versa)?

I can only fit a single 120mm radiator (bottom) unless I switch to a silverstone low profile fan and thin radiator on the right, but where's the RGB fun in that? currently I have thermaltake pure 12 ARGB fans in the case, which are more on the high airflow side of things. Will these work with a thick radiator? would doubling them up help? (I have a spare).

I also wanted to use a Phanteks Glacier R220C reservoir paired with an Alphacool DDC310 pump. There's not much here, just wandering if someone has a better idea for the pump or something (the pump fits into the reservoir so it needs to be DDC.)

Once I have these components + your radiator recommendation and can see how they fit, I'll get tubing and fittings.