First time water cooling advice

[BlackburnBuccaneer]

I am currently running an H100 with Corsair SP120's to cool my 3770K at 4.7Ghz and am interested in dong a custom water cooling loop.

As such I am have done some research into the matter and watched several videos from Linus and TTL on the matter. This has led me to the conclusion that with some modding of my 600T I can fit a 30mm thick 360 radiator in the roof and if needed a 240 in the front.

Therein lies the question - Would a 360x30mm (Alphacool ST30 360mm) rad be enough if I were to add my GPU (EVGA GTX 670 FTW) to the loop or would I need the 240(Alphacool XT45 240mm) as well?.

[Whaler_99]

A thin rad like that cooling an overclocked 3770k and the GTX would just barely cover it. I would plan on the additional 240 to start as well, just for some extra headroom.... :)

[Ghost]

A 360 rad would be okayish.

You might want to add a 140/120 rad on the back exhaust for some extra cooling. Or you could go for a thicker 360.

[Emkryan]

If you can't go over that 30mm thickness then grab a thick 120 rad just to be on the safe side or a thick 240 in the front to be better off

[BlackburnBuccaneer]

Thanks for the advice, I would not be able to fit anything thicker than 30mm in the top but I could put as thick a 240 as I want in the front so that is probably the way I will go, although looking at the cost of it I think I will do a CPU loop on the 360 just now and get the 240 and GPU block later on.

[Ghost]

Thanks for the advice' date=' I would not be able to fit anything thicker than 30mm in the top but I could put as thick a 240 as I want in the front so that is probably the way I will go, although looking at the cost of it I think I will do a CPU loop on the 360 just now and get the 240 and GPU block later on. [/quote']

Buy your Rads seconds hand. You can save a load of cash and there's no real damage you can actually do to a rad.