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I am trying my  hand at custom water cooling and I think I have a fairly good grasp on what I'm going to be doing. I will be cooling a 4770k overclocked to 4.6 ghz and SLI GTX 780's. For a case i'm running the Corsair 900D and will have a quadruple 120mm rad in the bottom of the case, and then a simple single 120 up top. Will this be enough cooling capacity? Or will I benefit from more radiators? My understanding was that the quad 120 mm should be enough, so I just threw the single 120 at it for good measure. 

 

Open to suggestions though!

 

Thanks

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-> owns 900d

-> puts 2 rads in

 

dude, there so much spaaaace. Fill it all up already.

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I will be enough but you have a 900D... Get your self 2x 480's, 1x 360, 1x 240 and one 140

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You have the best watercooling case ever, fill that thing up with rads. 

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Oh, I know, there's loads of space in this case. I bought it so I wouldn't need to upgrade the case for a long time. I also read that an excessive amount of rads won't necessarily help. It gets to a point where it's as cool as it's going to be, so more doesn't necessarily help. I guess I'm curious if adding another rad will actually help, or if it will (with my current setup) be a waste of money?

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I am going to go ahead and add a triple 120 as well. My next question would be, do the radiators come with plugs for the ports that I dont use, or do I need to buy those too?

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I am going to go ahead and add a triple 120 as well. My next question would be, do the radiators come with plugs for the ports that I dont use, or do I need to buy those too?

 

Generally speaking they do come with enough plugs. There will be enough plugs for all but two of the holes in the radiator since you will be needing those two for in and out.

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Yes.

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