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Hey guys. I'm thinking of putting watercooling into my rig. It will be my first time doing it so if anyone could say if this setup is good or not that would be great.

EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy

EK DCP 4.0 Pump

EK-RES X3 250 Reservoir

XSPC EX240 120mm Radiator (with 2 Aerocool Shark fan 12 cm Evil Black edition)

XSPC G1/4" to 1/2" ID, 3/4" OD Compression Fitting

XSPC HighFlex Hose 1/2" ID, 3/4" OD, 19/12.7mm, 2m, Clear

Mayhems Aurora - Orillia Orange Coolant

Also I can't seem to find any water blocks to fit my GPU - XFX Radeon HD 7950 DD 3GB - so if anyone can recommend one for me that would be great.

My case is the Aerocool Xpredator Evil Black Edition full tower

As I said this is my first watercooling setup so if I've made any stupid mistakes that will be why. :)

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Ive checked ek's website and they don't make a block for your graphics card so you may be in some trouble there if you want to liquid cool it.

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I was originally going to use the mcp655, especially since Linus said it was his absolute favourite, but it is a bit expensive. But I will look into it again.

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Ahh ok that is a bit annoying I might have to leave it out.

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I was originally going to use the mcp655, especially since Linus said it was his absolute favourite, but it is a bit expensive. But I will look into it again.

Only use Laing pumps. The pump Linus suggested is a Laing pump but it is no better than any other Laing pump and the other pumps can be cheaper and still be exactly the same pump except for the sticker. There are two types of Laing pump, the DDC and the D5, The DDC is small, runs hotter, is typically slightly less powerful and slightly louder but its also usually cheaper so it may be something for you to look at. Laing pumps have a 5 year MTBF and that's why they are recommended.

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Only use Laing pumps. The pump Linus suggested is a Laing pump but it is no better than any other Laing pump and the other pumps can be cheaper and still be exactly the same pump except for the sticker. There are two types of Laing pump, the DDC and the D5, The DDC is small, runs hotter, is typically slightly less powerful and slightly louder but its also usually cheaper so it may be something for you to look at. Laing pumps have a 5 year MTBF and that's why they are recommended.

The only problem is that they look terrible. Luckily Bitspower has it covered!

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Please dont use Aurora coolant. It is made for showcase systems. Use something like Pastel or X1 from Mayhems or you can even use XSPC coolants...

I like the color scheme of Noctua fans. Deal with it. Forget about the bad memories of the past.


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Please dont use Aurora coolant. It is made for showcase systems. Use something like Pastel or X1 from Mayhems or you can even use XSPC coolants...

I was going to use the mayhems pastel but it looked like a horrible brown colour in some videos that I had watched

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The only problem is that they look terrible. Luckily Bitspower has it covered!

Really?

 

What else do you want a pump to look like other than a black box/cylinder? I've never heard anyone complain about the looks. It looks better than hard drives, a CD-Rom drives.

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I was going to use the mayhems pastel but it looked like a horrible brown colour in some videos that I had watched

That was TTLs video and it must have been a bad batch and its only related to the black coolant.

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Really?

 

What else do you want a pump to look like other than a black box/cylinder? I've never heard anyone complain about the looks. It looks better than hard drives, a CD-Rom drives.

Agree ;)

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I was going to use the mayhems pastel but it looked like a horrible brown colour in some videos that I had watched

If you want an orange colored coolant, try going with Mayhems Pastel Gigabyte Orange

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Mmmm. Looks like Sunny D.

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Really?

 

What else do you want a pump to look like other than a black box/cylinder? I've never heard anyone complain about the looks. It looks better than hard drives, a CD-Rom drives.

I agree with the Optical drive.

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