Ideal Cost of This Liquid Cooling Loop?

[Loco]

I was wondering how much it could cost to run a custom loop to a CPU and 2 GPUs, preferably using higher-performance cooling parts.

 

Feel free to share your own budgets/experiences. 

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

I'd say 150 to 250 US should do the trick for reasonable mid/high end parts.

 

for the experience part:

Did watercooling, was ok till it needed maintenance, became too much of a hazzle to deal with, not doing it again, sticking with air is good enough for 99% of the human race :-)

[GDRRiley]

70-100$ per block with 300 or so on rads with another 100 on fittings and tubing. 

so like 600-700$

[C_O_K]

41 minutes ago, Loco said:

I was wondering how much it could cost to run a custom loop to a CPU and 2 GPUs, preferably using higher-performance cooling parts.

 

Feel free to share your own budgets/experiences. 

I liquid cooled for a buddy one time, the total cost was over 1000, cause he is kinda odd. As i have been told, keep it affordable but still good quality. Custom loop can be sketchy so make sure its really what you want. There are kits that you can buy to help out, ive seen anywhere from 100 dollar loops (like extra sketchy) all the way to 1000 dollar loops. your personal price depends on the length of tubing you buy, what coolant you use/ how much you need, how big your case is (cause no sense buying alot of tubing and coolant for a small case), it depends on what parts you have, some cooling blocks cost more for a certain cpu/gpu and some cost less.

If you give me some more info about your cpu/gpu you want to use i can probably help find an accurate price.

[ModifiedPhotoGraphics]

45 minutes ago, Loco said:

I was wondering how much it could cost to run a custom loop to a CPU and 2 GPUs, preferably using higher-performance cooling parts.

 

Feel free to share your own budgets/experiences. 

Two GPU's is where it's going to get costly. You may actually need two radiators to effectively dissipate that much heat. And it seems that the GPU plates are the most costly part aside from decent radiators. Even almost 20 years ago water cooling a full system was a $500+ price and it certainly hasn't come down much from that since.

[H3LLSMAN]

On 9/25/2018 at 1:48 AM, GDRRiley said:

70-100$ per block with 300 or so on rads with another 100 on fittings and tubing. 

so like 600-700$

That's more like it, custom cooling is not cheap, rads/blocks/pump or pumps are where you want to focus the cash fittings can be expensive, very expensive actually, but much more options now a days don't have to pay bitspower prices, fans in there too for push pull if you want to go that route, and the end of the day it can cost a shit ton.

 

I don't even feeling like adding up everything but mine for instance in fans/rads alone are 1259.47 USD but in my case these are the end all be all upgrade it just keeps moving from build to build only thing that changes is the blocks really, I have reused most of my fittings for years but they do show wear I keep them hidden in the back.

(14) Noctua NF-A14 3000 fans $391.30

(2) Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta 560mm rads $339.98

(18) Cougar CFD14HBR fans $268.20 USD

(1) Watercool MO-RA3 420 PRO 9 $259.99

 

Oh and distilled water is a must IMO plus some form of a bomb or coil in there this has close to 2 gallons I think flowing around at a dollar a gallon costs f all to change out.

 

[bowrilla]

you can just use the ekwb configurator to find out what an all EKWB custom loop would cost. With 2 GPUs I'd expect something around $600 and above.

[TahoeDust]

It's all expensive and little things like fittings add up fast.  By the time it is said and done, I would expect close to $1k.

[Loco]

On 9/26/2018 at 4:18 AM, H3LLSMAN said:

That's more like it, custom cooling is not cheap, rads/blocks/pump or pumps are where you want to focus the cash fittings can be expensive, very expensive actually, but much more options now a days don't have to pay bitspower prices, fans in there too for push pull if you want to go that route, and the end of the day it can cost a shit ton.

 

I don't even feeling like adding up everything but mine for instance in fans/rads alone are 1259.47 USD but in my case these are the end all be all upgrade it just keeps moving from build to build only thing that changes is the blocks really, I have reused most of my fittings for years but they do show wear I keep them hidden in the back.

(14) Noctua NF-A14 3000 fans $391.30

(2) Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta 560mm rads $339.98

(18) Cougar CFD14HBR fans $268.20 USD

(1) Watercool MO-RA3 420 PRO 9 $259.99

 

Oh and distilled water is a must IMO plus some form of a bomb or coil in there this has close to 2 gallons I think flowing around at a dollar a gallon costs f all to change out.

 

Thanks for your descriptive input!

[Neo-revo]

On 9/24/2018 at 10:43 PM, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

i'd say 150 to 250 US should do the trick for reasonable mid/high end parts.

maybe for a single CPU loop on the low end of perform-ability.

 

@Loco Depending on where you live, and where you order from i would expect a Single GPU loop  with  CPU to be around 1000$ in the end, 

 

it will be more if you want 'cool' looking parts (hopefully you do)   and then ontop of that.   Blocks for GPU can be particularily hard to come across new some times depending on the card unless its all  fresh release and  stock hasn't dwindled/been moved to discontinued.

 

in the end that 1000 cover additional things you might not think of (enough 12V)   better fans, spare tube/fluid.    Look at the Initial Cost as Upfront investment, Keep it in proper upkeep and  it will cost you 'less' per each year you run.

 

i have idk 1-2K in my liquid parts (not all in use atm) and   i would say its only cost me '5-10$ a month to run Liq the last 8/9 years.   Long term investment/  hardware life /stability.   pick your poison   it will cost a lot.  but be worth it if thats what you want, and its done right.