MATX watercooling kit

[10ochamberlain1]

Does anyone know if there are any custom watercooling kits that are made for small scale builds, i dont have much room in my air 240 and i dont really have the know how to design a custom loop myself. I'd like to keep it sub $300 (£200) and i really want a custom loop, not an all in one

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Does anyone know if there are any custom watercooling kits that are made for small scale builds, i dont have much room in my air 240 and i dont really have the know how to design a custom loop myself. I'd like to keep it sub $300 (£200) and i really want a custom loop, not an all in one

I've never seen anybody do a custom loop in a air 240 I've seen some in 540 I just doubt that there would be enough room in there for one.

[10ochamberlain1]

I've never seen anybody do a custom loop in a air 240 I've seen some in 540 I just doubt that there would be enough room in there for one.

 

http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?p=753251its possible

[10ochamberlain1]

there are some 80mm rads or maybe get a low profile 120mm rad and be conservative with your tubing. If you are cooling CPU and GPU I would say use a main 120mm rad and if you can find space, mount an 80mm somewhere else if there is room to act as a kinda inter-stage cooler because a single 120mm might not be enough to cool both. It should be fine for a CPU though, or get a thick 120mm if you can fit it

 

im just doing my cpu and i can fit a dual 120mm rad in the front

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http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?p=753251its possible

Wow that is one awesome loop.

To me that looks like the creator of that has had a lot of practise and I was just thinking that the op wouldn't have the experience to be able to put an entire loop in that smaller case.

[ForsakenLive]

Hi, I recommend you get a water cooling kit. These are just boxes with all needed components for a custom loop (CPU only), from all 100% compatible components from the same brand, and usually a pretty decent manual on how to build the loop (the ones I've seen from EK and Alphacool were actually very good guides).

 

Aquatuning UK sells a couple of them, and I suggest you get this one: http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-cooling/kits-und-systems/internal-kits/16021/phobya-pure-performance-kit-240lt?c=2636 This is the Phobya Pure Performance Kit 240LT, and it costs £133 (incluiding VAT and shipping).

 

This kit is fairly basic, yet it comes with a pretty decent radiator, 2x quiet fans, good enough CPU block, a pump more than capable to drive the loop quietly, a tube reservoir that will fit inside your case, compatible tubing and compression fittings, a premixed fluid, and it even comes with a PSU jumper, so you can turn on the pump separated from the PC, to fill and get the air out of the loop.

 

Depending on your GPU/s this is going to be feasible, as you are limited by length. Most GPUs should work (usually up to the lenght of a reference GTX 980, so unless you have some beastly long card like a Gigabyte windforce or Sapphire Tri-X, you should be able to fit everything nicely). The pump and res would have to go in the other chamber (you won't see them through the window sadly), if you do some good cable manage everything should fit. There is always the possibility of not finding a proper mounting spot for either the res or pump, so you may have to do a screw-hole for this on the mid panel and/or case bottom, but don't worry that much if you don't own a drill, even with a basic hole puncher (those sharp tools you use to thrust materials) you can do the hole.

[10ochamberlain1]

Hi, I recommend you get a water cooling kit. These are just boxes with all needed components for a custom loop (CPU only), from all 100% compatible components from the same brand, and usually a pretty decent manual on how to build the loop (the ones I've seen from EK and Alphacool were actually very good guides).

 

Aquatuning UK sells a couple of them, and I suggest you get this one: http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-cooling/kits-und-systems/internal-kits/16021/phobya-pure-performance-kit-240lt?c=2636 This is the Phobya Pure Performance Kit 240LT, and it costs £133 (incluiding VAT and shipping).

 

This kit is fairly basic, yet it comes with a pretty decent radiator, 2x quiet fans, good enough CPU block, a pump more than capable to drive the loop quietly, a tube reservoir that will fit inside your case, compatible tubing and compression fittings, a premixed fluid, and it even comes with a PSU jumper, so you can turn on the pump separated from the PC, to fill and get the air out of the loop.

 

Depending on your GPU/s this is going to be feasible, as you are limited by length. Most GPUs should work (usually up to the lenght of a reference GTX 980, so unless you have some beastly long card like a Gigabyte windforce or Sapphire Tri-X, you should be able to fit everything nicely). The pump and res would have to go in the other chamber (you won't see them through the window sadly), if you do some good cable manage everything should fit. There is always the possibility of not finding a proper mounting spot for either the res or pump, so you may have to do a screw-hole for this on the mid panel and/or case bottom, but don't worry that much if you don't own a drill, even with a basic hole puncher (those sharp tools you use to thrust materials) you can do the hole.

 

 

thanks a lot, thats way cheaper than the xspc kit i was looking at. I have an MSI R9 270x which is a fairly short card but its extremely wide (it bows my case panel out a bit) so i should have enough clearence for a pump down there. Im goin to put the res at the back of my case attached to the 80mm fan mounting locations 

 

Here is a picture of what i'm hoping to do

 

 

also is it possible to get that kit with clear tubing so i can colour it red?

[ForsakenLive]

thanks a lot, thats way cheaper than the xspc kit i was looking at. I have an MSI R9 270x which is a fairly short card but its extremely wide (it bows my case panel out a bit) so i should have enough clearence for a pump down there. Im goin to put the res at the back of my case attached to the 80mm fan mounting locations 

 

Here is a picture of what i'm hoping to do

 

also is it possible to get that kit with clear tubing so i can colour it red?

 

Your placement ideas are better than mine! I've held a similar pump (wasn't that exact model), and it's very tiny; should fit right by the rad. And with the 80mm fan grills, you already have the mounting holes for the res (which is also pretty tiny).

Phobya doesn't include clear tubing in any of their kits. You can however: copy the exact components list from the kit and purchase things separately, with the exception of the tubing. Or just get the kit and add tubing.

The tubing used by the kit is 13mm OD, 10mm ID. As long as you keep those specs, it's going to fit. This is pretty good tubing from Tygon: http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-cooling/tubing/tubes/2886/tygon-e3603-tubing-12-7/9-5mm-3/8-id-clear?c=2751

As for colouring, I've only used Mayhems concentrates, and they work wonders. It's pretty intense stuff, only a couple drops can make quite a difference. The main red options are candy or deep; one is more orangy-bright-red the other one is more blood-like. Here is a link for the Deep red http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-cooling/water-additives/coloring-additives/15120/mayhems-dye-deep-red-15ml?c=2759