900D overkill custom loop?

[Shaqo_Wyn]

If someone gave you a Corsair 900D and an unlimited budget that you could only use to build the custom water cooling loop to go with it, how cray would your custom loop be? What radiators, pumps, reservoirs, fans, tubing, cooling blocks etc. would you use (brand and model). 

 

Objective: cool the CPU, GPU, MOBO (and RAM if you want to). 

Specific interests: you like cable management, a whisper quiet PC, overclocking and long walks on the beach. 

 

Some components for reference:

CPU: Intel i7-4930K

MOBO: Asus IV Rampage Black Edition

GPU: GTX 780ti SC

RAM: 64GB Quad-channel 2133MHZ

PSU: 1200W

Storage: SSD's

[FloRolf]

i would throw the 900d away and get a SMA8, then cool the livin shit out of it. And thats what i'll do next year or so...

[Shaqo_Wyn]

i would throw the 900d away and get a SMA8, then cool the livin shit out of it. And thats what i'll do next year or so...

Hahaha, great case! I would definitely want to see pics of the finished product. 

[Gene5is]

Def get the sma8 instead of the 900D.. its a bit more expensive but its worth it..

[Gene5is]

Put a double thick 560 in push pull in the bottom cage, double thick 480 in the top and a double thick 360 in the front..in 2 different loops(one loop for your vga or vgas and one for the rest)

 

PS: Sorry for double posting, i posted from y cellphone and couldnt edit the above post

[FloRolf]

Put a double thick 560 in push pull in the bottom cage, double thick 480 in the top and a double thick 360 in the front..in 2 different loops(one loop for your vga or vgas and one for thr rest)

Dual Loops are stupid imho. Unless you can make it look really really good.

[VSG]

Dual Loops are stupid imho. Unless you can make it look really really good.

 

Depends on the applications. If you are having GPUs that release a ton more heat than the CPU it makes sense to have them on their own loop and not affect anything else. I will be doing a CPU/MoBo/RAM loop and a GPU(s) loop in my build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/156570-the-utterly-imbalanced-caselabs-tx10-d-builds/

[Lays]

Depends on the applications. If you are having GPUs that release a ton more heat than the CPU it makes sense to have them on their own loop and not affect anything else. I will be doing a CPU/MoBo/RAM loop and a GPU(s) loop in my build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/156570-the-utterly-imbalanced-caselabs-tx10-d-builds/

 

 

Yeah, my GPU's being in my loop definitely raise temps of my CPU even tho my rad space is enough to handle it.

 

It's not necessarily the practical thing in the world, but the benefits can be noticeable definitely. 

[FloRolf]

Depends on the applications. If you are having GPUs that release a ton more heat than the CPU it makes sense to have them on their own loop and not affect anything else. I will be doing a CPU/MoBo/RAM loop and a GPU(s) loop in my build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/156570-the-utterly-imbalanced-caselabs-tx10-d-builds/

Yeah, my GPU's being in my loop definitely raise temps of my CPU even tho my rad space is enough to handle it.

 

It's not necessarily the practical thing in the world, but the benefits can be noticeable definitely.

So you think even with like 1 High end CPU oc'ed a lot and like 2 780s or so a Dual loop would be better even if you have like 13x 120mm rads? I guess you'll go down like 1-3°C but not much...

[VSG]

Like I said- depends on the application. Those two 780s can pull out 400-500W each easily under water when overvolted and under load (gaming load also!). So now you have this 800-1000W of heat that needs dissipation. So the CPU temps (which in case of Haswell are already high even under water) will just go up 5-8 ºC easily on average. Heck, when I had my dual 780 Ti KPEs, the CPU temps went up over 10 ºC just because the loop average temperature was being raised by the GPUs.

 

Now if you do have something like 13x120mm rad space and you have it sensibly arranged so that about half is between the GPUs and CPU, then the increase will be a lot lower as you guessed- 3 to 5 ºC I would say. For most situations a single loop makes sense. But if you have one component set that is dumping a lot more heat into the loop than anything else, you may want to consider separate loops- especially if you have the space for it.