sugestions and comments on new water cooling system.

[mimarcu]

Hello all

 

I’m new to the forums and would like help with picking parts for a water cooling setup which I’m very new to as well i have some nice fans installed already but they don’t do much when I’m doing any heavy gaming, programing, high resource VM's. At idle the temps will be 90 F for the CPU and like 100 F for the GPU but when i game temperatures can reach 160-170 just recently i got a CPU over temp and my computer shutdown well now i have some extra money and i want to improve cooling so that my CPU and GPU can be at 100% load with no heat problems. I want to cool the graphics card and the CPU and i would like to do it for $100 or less i was thinking of using two all in one water coolers one for the graphics card and one for the CPU, for the one on the graphics card i was thinking of using the NZXT kraken G10 that Linus showed that can mount all in one water cooling units for the CPU to the GPU, AMD FX-8150 Eight core 3.60 GHZ is my CPU and the XFX Double D FX797GTDFC Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is my GPU I’m using the Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard and i have room in the top and bottom middle my NZXT Phantom 410 case for radiators any and all help would be appreciated thanks in advance.

 

 

*UPDATE:

 

not going to happen for $100.

okay if not for $100 what about $200 but that's my max i don't want to go over that. also I'm sorry i forgot to put temps in Celsius how inconsiderate of me they are as follows, at idle the CPU temperature is 35 Celsius and at 30% use its at 76 Celsius; and my GPU at idle is 37.7 Celsius at 50% utilization its temp is about 71.1 Celcius; also i will look at the water cooling guides you guys referred to below but i also wanted recommendations as to what coolers would be the most compatible with my case GPU, CPU, and CPU socket; as well as what would help them preform the best under high load at low Temps thank you for all your help thus far also i think i forgot to log out when i went to bed sorry about that.

 

*UPDATE 12:05 AM 1/10/2014: okay i got the new water cooling loop and my first problem is i cant test it it has a 4 pin PWM connector and i only have an adapter on my external power supply for a 3 pin

[Flyguygamer]

not going to happen for $100.

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Brandonsr]

 

Something is wrong with your components, even with the worst fan set-up you shouldn't be going that badly. 

 

Which CPU/MB/GPU are you running?

I think you misread slightly.

 

170f is only 76c.

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[PuNkPoEtS]

Off topic: yeah i think it would have been easier if the OP put the temps in C instead of F as alot of progams we use states them as C

 

back on topic

you should have a look at the Water cooling 101 and watercooling FAQ and that will give you help with your research as it helped me alot

[mimarcu]

okay what if i go for the NZXT KRAKEN G10 GPU BRACKET to mount the CORSAIR Hydro Series H90 High Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 140mm for my GPU and the Cooler Master Seidon 240M – All-In-One CPU Liquid Water Cooling System with 240mm for my CPU for $189.97 minus shipping would that work with my case and help reduce CPU and GPU temps sufficiently maybe in the future i will go with a more expensive custom cooling loop but for right now i just want a stable system that can handle high loads with a cooling system that isn't too expensive thanks for the reading material it was very informative i now know a lot more about water cooling.

okay no new replys...? ill just try the cpu cooler i outlined for now and come back if i have any issues bye.

[mimarcu]

*UPDATE 12:05 AM 1/10/2014: okay i got the new water cooling loop and my first problem is i cant test it it has a 4 pin PWM connector and i only have an adapter on my external power supply for a 3 pin

[airdeano]

*UPDATE 12:05 AM 1/10/2014: okay i got the new water cooling loop and my first problem is i cant test it it has a 4 pin PWM connector and i only have an adapter on my external power supply for a 3 pin

 

a 4-pin fan will work on a 3-pin power harness. it'll just be at 12volts without any speed adjust.

should have at least one/two 4-pin fan headers on the motherboard.

what cooling loop do you have?

[mimarcu]

Its a dual 120 mm fan radiator thats two posts above for reference though its the Cooler Master Seidon 240M – All-In-One CPU Liquid Water Cooling System.

[airdeano]

its the Cooler Master Seidon 240M – All-In-One CPU Liquid Water Cooling System.

 

yeah, looked at the install instructions for that unit and like sad before can be

installed on 3-pin (but no PWM function). but your motherboard has a CPU_FAN

and CPU_OPT (both 4-pin) to plug your cooler into. personally, i'd use the

CPU_FGAN for the splitter for the two fans (mobo fan control - silent) and wire

the pump direct to PSU for 12v operation. no need in regulating pump speed.

[mimarcu]

its not on the motherboard its for testing using an external power supply i want to make sure it wont leak on my $2000 system the problem is there is some plastic casing around the adpter on the power supply i guess i could cut it off i dont have any tin snips though which would make this eisier.

 

heres a link to an image of what im using http://images.maplinmedia.co.uk/power-supply-cable-2x-3-pin-male-fan-connectors-to-4-pin-atx-male-028m.jpg%3Fw%3D283%26h%3D283%26r%3D4%26o%3DNKW0A5ZM6eW6ueeERsp8kvEaZ8Aj%26V%3DBJa1

To hacking then!!

[mimarcu]

Well i got it set up on a makeshift test-bench and it seems to be working just fine, now to see if there are any leaks over the next 48 hours. Thanks for the advice
airdeano im off to bed good night all.

[mimarcu]

well my temps are much better now and I am satisfied with my water cooling solution because my CPU actually feels cool when my computer is at idle and my computer can run prime 95 without overheating I can get so much more out of my computer, now running I’m running two Ubuntu test servers and a Kali Linux Machine all in virtual box, and I can run all my games at ultra-graphics without any problems @_@