Water Cooling loop question

[Walshy690]

Ok so I'm in the process of putting together a new build for myself and I have not built using water cooling before so Water Cooling is new to me however I have helped my mates build their rigs.

 

So I have some questions with regards to the loop. I am looking at doing the build in a Corsair 780t graphite case which I have read can take a 360 and a 240 rad. Now my question is as I am cooling a 6700k and a single EVGA 1080 FTW can I do that with a single 360 rad? The Details of the cooling kit are:

 

EK-Supremacy EVO Clean CSQ (incl. LED diode, mounting- & thermal material)

EK-CoolStream RAD XTX 360 (Triple)

EK-FAN Silent 120-1600 RPM (3pcs)

EK-DDC 3.2 PWM Elite Edition (incl. pump holders)

EK-RES X3 150

PrimoChill PrimoFlex™ Advanced LRT™ 13/10mm (2 meters)

EK-CSQ Fitting 13/10mm - G1/4 Nickel (8 pcs)

EK-Cable Y-Splitter 3-Fan PWM (10cm)

ATX bridging plug

 

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

 

Any help is much appreciated.

 

Walshy

[0ld_Chicken]

It'll be fine on a 360 as long as you aren't going for max overclocks and silence at the same time

[Apoorv]

A 64mm thick 360 should be sufficient, but if you want lower temps then maybe you could add another one. And the Graphite 780t supports a verity of configs as you can see in the picture. So you have A LOT of room for upgrading. I think the rad is enough though I would recommend putting the rad in push pull to get the beat performance.

[Walshy690]

If I'm honest I wont be doing any overclocking myself as I have not done it before and I think for the time being I am just after decent cooling and low noise as my current build is pretty noisy and warm lol.

 

I'm thinking of of mounting it in the front and using the top space for a single 3.5 inch HDD for storage (I have an m.2 ssd for OS and a further SSD for well played games)

 

So am I right in saying this is the way the loop should run:

 

Pump

res

rad

cpu

gpu

back to pump/res

 

Is that right?

[Curufinwe_wins]

4 minutes ago, Walshy690 said:

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It doesn't matter one bit.

[Deli]

10 minutes ago, Walshy690 said:

If I'm honest I wont be doing any overclocking myself as I have not done it before and I think for the time being I am just after decent cooling and low noise as my current build is pretty noisy and warm lol.

 

I'm thinking of of mounting it in the front and using the top space for a single 3.5 inch HDD for storage (I have an m.2 ssd for OS and a further SSD for well played games)

 

So am I right in saying this is the way the loop should run:

 

Pump

res

rad

cpu

gpu

back to pump/res

 

Is that right?

res before pump

[Curufinwe_wins]

46 minutes ago, Deli said:

res before pump

The kit defaults that way, he just didn't notice.

[Walshy690]

OK cool so res before pump that's no problem then. I am also going to install a drain valve I'm thinking of using a Y pipe where would be the best place for this after the Res so it drains it from there?

[Curufinwe_wins]

1 hour ago, Walshy690 said:

OK cool so res before pump that's no problem then. I am also going to install a drain valve I'm thinking of using a Y pipe where would be the best place for this after the Res so it drains it from there?

Ideally you drain from the lowest part of your loop, whatever that may be. In my case, that is on my front rad.

[Walshy690]

Sweet that makes sense. Thanks for all the help guys you have helped my decision to go for a single 360 instead of having both a 240 and a 120. I will hopefully post pictures up when I start the build.