EK Kit radiator

[ayyyyZJ]

Hey guys. I am a first time water cooler. My biggest worry is getting all the fittings and such for doing all of it, so I'm gonna get a EK-KIT L360 (R2.0). It says under the notes that if I add anything to the loop I should buy a coolstream series rad. My question- if I use the 360 rad the kit comes with, could I get away with cooling a graphics card with it? (Cpu will be i7 6700k, Gpu will be a GTX 1070) Thanks guys, and have a great day!

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

[TidaLWaveZ]

You can, the cooling just won't be as good.  You'll be 120mm shy of the rule of thumb(2x120mm for each component.

 

I've had 1 360mm and 1 240mm cooling two GPU's and a CPU and temps were fine.

[ayyyyZJ]

1 hour ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

You can, the cooling just won't be as good.  You'll be 120mm shy of the rule of thumb(2x120mm for each component.

 

I've had 1 360mm and 1 240mm cooling two GPU's and a CPU and temps were fine.

thanks man, but what do you think I should do? should I get the 240 rad and add another 240? or the 360 and add a 120? or just leave it? (sorry about this, this is my first time :D)

[ayyyyZJ]

and just a note, I really dont care about noise so the fans will be maxing out at all times.

[TidaLWaveZ]

1 hour ago, ayyyyZJ said:

thanks man, but what do you think I should do? should I get the 240 rad and add another 240? or the 360 and add a 120? or just leave it? (sorry about this, this is my first time :D)

 

I stay away from 120mm rads.  I try to minimize the amount of fittings and tube I use, unless it's truly beneficial.  I would get two 240's over a 360 and 120.

[Simon771]

Well I have 240mm slim rad and will be using it for i7 4790 (possible K version in future) and GTX 1070.

It might not be perfect results, but it will work.

But I can't even fit any better rad into my case, so I'm stuck with it.

If you have more space, use as big rad as you can.

 

But check this: 

 

Single 240mm rad for CPU and GPU, both OCed to max and 100% load. It works and still silent.

But temps get to 70°C ... in real games probbably less, because none of the games will acctually stress your CPU and GPU to 100% like that.

 

So for 360mm rad ... you are fine, but for lower temps get more rads if you can.

 

edit: Not to mention that in this build he used some second tier brand of radiator, so with EK, you can expect better results.