A noob doing Water Cooling

[kyrios01]

Hello guys,

 

I am building a new PC for a friend, but she doesnt have any experience building or giving a minimun maintenance to any PC... she's just a baby about computing and hardware. 

 

but she wants to do rendering for architecture stuff, and those kind of Works can take days of processing so i thought adding a wáter cooling system instead of the conventional fan on top of the CPU could help to keep her PC cool running so many cores for so long preriod of time.

yet, i dont know if its a good idea for her to have a wáter cooling system without enough knowledge on hardware and etc.

 

what do you guys think? 

[SolarNova]

A good quality Air cooler would be fine. if you want extra airflow add some more fans, and i would sugest getting a case with easy access to the air filters so she can easily clean them.

[r2724r16]

If it's her first time building a PC, I don't recommend doing a custom loop. Use an air cooler for the CPU instead.

[karsnoordhuis]

what @SolarNova says. A high end air cooler can outperform an AIO watercooler. it is also less noisy

[TheGlenlivet]

Maybe list the CPU you want to use?  Someone here will have experience with it and can tell you what would be a good choice for a cooler.

[kyrios01]

3 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Maybe list the CPU you want to use?  Someone here will have experience with it and can tell you what would be a good choice for a cooler.

its a i7 8700 with a Asus prime Z370p 

[TheGlenlivet]

Just now, kyrios01 said:

its a i7 8700 with a Asus prime Z370p 

If it's an 8700 - non K then a good air cooler will be PLENTY.  You don't need liquid cooling at all.

Noctual, coolermaster or Cryorig make good stuiff.

[GoldenLag]

watercooling is less reliable compared to aircooling. a Noctua or bequiet tower cooler keeps a CPU cool regardless of what its doing. 

 

a good aircooler is on par or better than AIOs

 

 

is she getting a new PC?

what kind of work is she doing?

what kind of budget is she working with?

what software is involved?

 

the 8700 is a nice CPU, but not the most optimal for core heavy workloads

[kyrios01]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

watercooling is less reliable compared to aircooling. a Noctua or bequiet tower cooler keeps a CPU cool regardless of what its doing. 

 

a good aircooler is on par or better than AIOs

 

 

is she getting a new PC?

what kind of work is she doing?

what kind of budget is she working with?

what software is involved?

 

the 8700 is a nice CPU, but not the most optimal for core heavy workloads

is she getting a new PC?

A- yes

what kind of work is she doing?

A- high quality of architecture rendering

what kind of budget is she working with?

A- about 2k$

what software is involved?

A- 3ds max, lumion and sketchup

[GoldenLag]

24 minutes ago, kyrios01 said:

is she getting a new PC?

A- yes

what kind of work is she doing?

A- high quality of architecture rendering

what kind of budget is she working with?

A- about 2k$

what software is involved?

A- 3ds max, lumion and sketchup

she should probably consider lloking at the 1920x as it currently on sale and as a lot of the work she does involves rendering the threadripper will help shorten the render times tremendously.

 

something along the lines of this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Threadripper 1920X 3.5GHz 12-Core Processor  ($474.33 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U12S TR4-SP3 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($69.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - X399 Taichi ATX TR4 Motherboard  ($323.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($144.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($144.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($94.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.49 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB D5X Video Card  ($429.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($104.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1942.64
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-04 12:37 EDT-0400

 

this will suit her rendering needs for a long time. and if she needs an upgrade it is just to slot in a new CPU or more Ram without needing to change core components

[kyrios01]

3 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

she should probably consider lloking at the 1920x as it currently on sale and as a lot of the work she does involves rendering the threadripper will help shorten the render times tremendously.

 

something along the lines of this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Threadripper 1920X 3.5GHz 12-Core Processor  ($474.33 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U12S TR4-SP3 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($69.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - X399 Taichi ATX TR4 Motherboard  ($323.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($144.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($144.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($94.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.49 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB D5X Video Card  ($429.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($104.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1942.64
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-04 12:37 EDT-0400

 

this will suit her rendering needs for a long time. and if she needs an upgrade it is just to slot in a new CPU or more Ram without needing to change core components

ooh thank you, this is very nice combo, 

[kyrios01]

I choose his answer because i can use it as a reference for a good combo system.

 

and following all the recomendations, a final veredict is, that air cooling is more safe for everyone, while wáter cooling should only be used for overclocking and only if you have experience with hardware. 

 

 

thanks everyone