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What's the best closed loop liquid cooler as of now?

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What's the best closed loop cooler as of right now?

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Just now, Lucas9825 said:

Building a new rig w/ i7-5930k & x99A godlike mobo...
 

What's the best closed loop cooler as of right now?

probably the ek predator 360, though its pretty expensive.

I know the Swiftech h240X is also pretty good.

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Gotcha, Money isn't a problem... Just need a reliable and pretty decent cooler.

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Any 360mm rad ones. But why not, build it you'reself? then you get it exactly how you want it :)

 

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2 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

Gotcha, Money isn't a problem... Just need a reliable and pretty decent cooler.

 

Don't know how attached you are to the AIO idea, but you might check out EK's liquid series kits.

 

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/kits/liquid-series

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Just now, xgn said:

Any 360mm rad ones. But why not, build it you'reself? then you get it exactly how you want it :)

 

I'd do a custom loop but I've never done one before & not really sure what to get for parts and all that. =P

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5 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

I'd do a custom loop but I've never done one before & not really sure what to get for parts and all that. =P

Just take things step by step a basic loop consist of 1 block 1 res 1 rad then you can expand as you wish.

 

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5 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

I'd do a custom loop but I've never done one before & not really sure what to get for parts and all that. =P

 

4 minutes ago, xgn said:

Just take things step by step a basic loop consist of 1 block 1 res 1 rad then you can expand as you wish.

 

Or leave all the guess work to EK

 

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-l360-r2-0

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6 minutes ago, xgn said:

Just take things step by step a basic loop consist of 1 block 1 res 1 rad then you can expand as you wish.

Just wondering.... What's your opinion on this kit right here?

 

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-x360

 

I currently have a corsair 750d on my cart but I could switch to a corsair 900d if needed.

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1 minute ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

 

 

Or leave all the guess work to EK

 

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-l360-r2-0

Thats a good option. But does he have a window on the case? Asthethics was a big selling point for me. Rigged tubing makes all the difference.

Also i vent with led fans on my build but not everyone like to go down that route. But its nice to chose fan color which fit with the color theme.

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Just now, Lucas9825 said:

Gotcha, What do you think of this https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-x360


I think it's awesome, I posted the liquid series because I thought the price was a little more friendly.

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Just now, xgn said:

Thats a good option. But does he have a window on the case? Asthethics was a big selling point for me. Rigged tubing makes all the difference.

Also i vent with led fans on my build but not everyone like to go down that route. But its nice to chose fan color which fit with the color theme.

Yeah my dude, Has a large window.... going for a Red & black color scheme.

Totally agree with you =P

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1 minute ago, TidaLWaveZ said:


I think it's awesome, I posted the liquid series because I thought the price was a little more friendly.

You have a point there lol. but yeah aha :P

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4 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

Just wondering.... What's your opinion on this kit right here?

 

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-x360

 

I currently have a corsair 750d on my cart but I could switch to a corsair 900d if needed.

Yea thats good you should be able to get some serious overclocks with this kit :)

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3 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

You have a point there lol. but yeah aha :P

 

I myself didn't get the kit because I was able to find some of the individual parts pretty cheap, so I bought it piecewise.  I pretty much have all the same parts as the L360 kit, but with an extra 240 rad and it works great.

 

The best thing about these kits, EK offers all the parts individually so you can add GPU blocks, Radiators, Valves, Disconnects, or change the tubing whenever.

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31 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

 

I myself didn't get the kit because I was able to find some of the individual parts pretty cheap, so I bought it piecewise.  I pretty much have all the same parts as the L360 kit, but with an extra 240 rad and it works great.

 

The best thing about these kits, EK offers all the parts individually so you can add GPU blocks, Radiators, Valves, Disconnects, or change the tubing whenever.

So, If I bought that EK x360 kit... Would I be able to water cool 2 hydro copper 980ti gpu's in sli?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/XygFBm

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43 minutes ago, xgn said:

Yea thats good you should be able to get some serious overclocks with this kit :)

So, If I bought that EK x360 kit... Would I be able to water cool 2 hydro copper 980ti gpu's in sli?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/XygFBm

lemme know what you think.

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2 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

So, If I bought that EK x360 kit... Would I be able to water cool 2 hydro copper 980ti gpu's in sli?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/XygFBm

lemme know what you think.

To do that you would need atleast 1 more radiator possibly 2. Im not sure about pros/cons or tradeoffs to add more radiators on that particular case.

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1 minute ago, xgn said:

To do that you would need atleast 1 more radiator possibly 2. Im not sure about pros/cons or tradeoffs to add more radiators on that particular case.

Interesting... I'd probably be better off just got go w/ a cheaper kit / rad? considering the rad in that kit is fucking huge lol

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11 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

So, If I bought that EK x360 kit... Would I be able to water cool 2 hydro copper 980ti gpu's in sli?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/XygFBm

Yes, you could do this but the cooling wouldn't be that great because 1 radiator would be cooling two GPU's and a CPU.  That's exactly why I have the extra radiator in my setup.

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1 minute ago, Lucas9825 said:

Interesting... I'd probably be better off just got go w/ a cheaper kit / rad? considering the rad in that kit is fucking huge lol

You can fit a 360mm rad at top on the case 750D. Mount the rad on top is standard if you go with just one.

so you can easily dissipate hot air without passing trough other components.

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Just now, TidaLWaveZ said:

 

Yes, you could do this but the cooling wouldn't be that great because 1 radiator would be cooling two GPU's and a CPU.  That's exactly why I have the extra radiator in my setup.

hmm... how do you suppose I should do this then? Just curious =P

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7 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

hmm... how do you suppose I should do this then? Just curious =P

 

If you want to water cool all that then get the 360 kit and buy another 240 or 360 rad.

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