Custom Water Cooling Advice

[Dilwyn]

Ok so to start this on I have never made a custom water cooling solution before but I have always wanted to.

I have just brought a i7-8086k and at the moment I am using a cosair h110igt. and the cpu has been very toasty under load at 5ghz So im going to attempt a full water cooling system and basically i was hoping you guys can let me know if the bellow list is good and that there isnt anything im missing out on. I will be delidding the cpu as well and using a copper ihs as apposed to the standard ihs on the cpu yes this will probs be overkill but hopefully then i can get a really good overclock on it to any help will be much appreciated also what is a great coolant to use.

Waterblock; EK-Supremacy EVO

Water pump: EK-DDC 3.2 PWM Elite Edition

Reservoir: EK-RES X3 150

Radiator: EKWB CoolStream CE 420

Fans: Noctua nf-a14 x3 industrial with fan controller

Tubing: EK-DuraClear 9,5/12,7mm (3/8'' - 1/2''

Compression fittings: EK-ACF Fitting 13/10mm

 

[W-L]

6 minutes ago, Dilwyn said:

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That's a pretty solid start, I assume you will be integrating your GPU later on with the large rad selection. As for options to improve I'd probably recommend to go with thick walled tubing as it doesn't kink easily as the thin walled stuff. For coolant if you are looking for and opaque look Mayhems Pastel is good, as for transparent fluids, their X1 series or EKWB's Cryofuel are well regarded.

[Dilwyn]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

That's a pretty solid start, I assume you will be integrating your GPU later on with the large rad selection. As for options to improve I'd probably recommend to go with thick walled tubing as it doesn't kink easily as the thin walled stuff. For coolant if you are looking for and opaque look Mayhems Pastel is good, as for transparent fluids, their X1 series or EKWB's Cryofuel are well regarded.

Cool thank you for the advice, I imagine I will be integrating my gpu down the line once all the cooling stuff is installed. I forgot to mention is there much point in using solid tubing or is that more of an aesthetic thing also With the coolants you mentioned do they need to be changed often?

[W-L]

6 minutes ago, Dilwyn said:

Cool thank you for the advice, I imagine I will be integrating my gpu down the line once all the cooling stuff is installed. I forgot to mention is there much point in using solid tubing or is that more of an aesthetic thing also With the coolants you mentioned do they need to be changed often?

Al coolants should be changed every 6-12 months, and the loop should be cleaned out ideally. As for hardline tubing it's mainly aesthetics but also resists staining or gunking if the tubing gets old. 

[Enderman]

The Cryofuel is good, it's rebranded mayhems coolant.

[W-L]

6 minutes ago, Enderman said:

The Cryofuel is good, it's rebranded mayhems coolant.

Cryofuel is their own blend now different than the stuff from Mayhems but the old Evo and pastel series was in partnership with Mayhems which was their X1 and pastel series respectively.

[Daniel644]

"toasty", can you give a number to that? what is "toasty" to you? also what kind of Voltage are you running at? If you are using Auto Voltage that is a large part of your "toasty" temps. you might not even need a custom loop, your single biggest gain will come from a Delid with Liquid Metal, do that first then decide if it's worth the extra costs to go custom loop.

[Enderman]

19 minutes ago, W-L said:

Cryofuel is their own blend now different than the stuff from Mayhems but the old Evo and pastel series was in partnership with Mayhems which was their X1 and pastel series respectively.

My bad, it's the pastel line that is mayhems.

EK said both the cyofuel and the evo is their own.

https://www.overclock.net/forum/25966949-post6.html

[Dilwyn]

Just now, Daniel644 said:

"toasty", can you give a number to that? what is "toasty" to you? also what kind of Voltage are you running at? If you are using Auto Voltage that is a large part of your "toasty" temps. you might not even need a custom loop, your single biggest gain will come from a Delid with Liquid Metal, do that first then decide if it's worth the extra costs to go custom loop.

Well atm it thermal throttles like mad but the current cooler was installed the same way as when it was on my previous cpu a 6700k. Its took roughly 15 seconds to reach those temps. 

https://gyazo.com/937ee53bff50feb30c3dae6d1c484f48

[Daniel644]

2 minutes ago, Dilwyn said:

Well atm it thermal throttles like mad but the current cooler was installed the same way as when it was on my previous cpu a 6700k. Its took roughly 15 seconds to reach those temps. 

https://gyazo.com/937ee53bff50feb30c3dae6d1c484f48

ok so 5.2 Ghz (to extreme for anything not delidding IMHO) hits thermal limit but what voltage? voltage is crucial to temps, you might try dialing back to 5 Ghz till you get delidded, it should take less voltage that way, like on my 6700k to reach 4.6Ghz I had to significantly bump the voltage, like from 1.29V to 1.35V (or something like that), dropping to 4.5Ghz allowed me to drop 10 C off the peak stress test temps. Drop back to 5Ghz even instead of 5.2Ghz and see how low you can take the voltage without it crashing.

[Dilwyn]

7 minutes ago, Daniel644 said:

ok so 5.2 Ghz (to extreme for anything not delidding IMHO) hits thermal limit but what voltage? voltage is crucial to temps, you might try dialing back to 5 Ghz till you get delidded, it should take less voltage that way, like on my 6700k to reach 4.6Ghz I had to significantly bump the voltage, like from 1.29V to 1.35V (or something like that), dropping to 4.5Ghz allowed me to drop 10 C off the peak stress test temps. Drop back to 5Ghz even instead of 5.2Ghz and see how low you can take the voltage without it crashing.

Atm I am using a Asus PRIME Z370-A the cpu voltage is set to 1.328 and the overclock is done with the eztuning tool set to extreme and the 5.2ghz was the turboboost.

[Daniel644]

1 minute ago, Dilwyn said:

Atm I am using a Asus PRIME Z370-A the cpu voltage is set to 1.328 and the overclock is done with the eztuning tool set to extreme and the 5.2ghz was the turboboost.

yeah don't use those auto overclocking tools, they tend to dump to much voltage into the CPU.

 

also FYI "turbo boost" stops existing the moment you overclock, you can't overclock then turbo boost over the overclock, thats just not how it works.

[Dilwyn]

Ok so in the end ive gone with this setup hopefully it should do the job wish me luck.