Water Cooling Advice *Noob*

[thobel]

System
I7 980x @ 4.5ish
Corsair 800D
3x GTX 480

Dual Pump/Res

120.4 worth of rad's...

With no OC on the Video cards do you think its enough Rads for "Safe Temps" under Load as in say Under 60-65

I don't want to mod the case so I was looking at maybe
http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=1030

or even

http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=372

as a solution.

*yes I know crazy expensive and I could do some external case for my WC setup I'm very new to WC'ing and just don't feel confident enough to get crazy yet :)

So ooking for advice feed back along the lines of
Yes 120.4 should be fine as long as you..
or NO way in hell those 3 cards will burn down your house without 120.x more :)

[century child]

I would stick with air cooling before going with either of those two solutions. For that kind of cash you could easily get a case capable of housing the necessary watercooling components to provide more than adequate cooling (think mountain mods or a TJ07) in addition to purchasing all everything you need and still come out ahead.

[thobel]

I would stick with air cooling before going with either of those two solutions. For that kind of cash you could easily get a case capable of housing the necessary watercooling components to provide more than adequate cooling (think mountain mods or a TJ07) in addition to purchasing all everything you need and still come out ahead.

The system already has what I laid out. I'm looking to expand on it without using any power tools on my case :)
http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad236/thobel/IMG_4388.jpg

[Utnorris]

System
I7 980x @ 4.5ish
Corsair 800D
3x GTX 480

Dual Pump/Res

120.4 worth of rad's...

With no OC on the Video cards do you think its enough Rads for "Safe Temps" under Load as in say Under 60-65

A quad rad should be able to cool the 3 x GTX480's, however I am not sure if the cards will be at or lower than your "60-65" load range that you have listed since I have read they are very hot cards.


I don't want to mod the case so I was looking at maybe
http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=1030

Should be able to work for your system.

or even

http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=372

Aluminum rad, so no.

as a solution.

*yes I know crazy expensive and I could do some external case for my WC setup I'm very new to WC'ing and just don't feel confident enough to get crazy yet :)

So ooking for advice feed back along the lines of
Yes 120.4 should be fine as long as you..
or NO way in hell those 3 cards will burn down your house without 120.x more :)

See above bolded statements.

[century child]

Out of curiosity, what are your temps like right now?

[thobel]

See above bolded statements.

So would you use the
http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=1030
for the Video Cards and dedicate the 120.4 to CPU only? or the reverse?

[Church]

If you don't want to mod case, why not buy premoded one? I recall seeing in pricelists of few watercooling shops prefit with rads and alike ..