Antec 1200 + i7 920 + MSI GTX480 needs some silent liquid cooling

[muskel]

Hello, me and my friend are building watercooling systems for 1st time. I'm going with HAF and hes going for Antec 1200 (he simply don't have writing access to this forum yet, soon he will continue this thread under he's own name "chemic")

theres a shopping card link for both of our pieces from aquacooling.de (https://www.aquatuning.de/shopping_cart.php/showkey/81933cf2e6e48fcdf193a45d90e375d9)

System
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CASE: Antec 1200
CPU: i7 920 (with some decent overcloking)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Socket 1366 GA-X58A-UD5
Video Card: MSI 480GTX (with decent overclocking)

Watercooling
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CPU Block: EK Water Blocks EK-Supreme HF Full Copper universal (775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3/939/XEON)
Videocard WB/WBs: Aquacomputer aquagraFX for GTX 480 (GF100)
Radiators: XSPC RX240 Dual Radiator to the front (place for DVD drives etc) + Phobya Xtreme 200 (top, at default fat-boy fan place, with new Yate Loon D22BL-12H 220mm/750rpm LED fan)
Reservoir: Koolance Reservoir Inline 240mm V2
Tubing & Size: ClearFlex60 tubing 19/13mm (1/2"ID) clear (2m)
Barb/Fitting Size: 13mm (1/2") fitting G1/4 with O-Ring (12 pieces for backup too)
Pump & Quantity: ?? don't know (something good and cheap enough)
Fan Controller: Zalman multifan controller ZM-MFC1

Suggestions and hints for him are more then welcome.. as Antec 1200 is a way trickier case than my HAF to handle :)

[Monkeyface]

Wasn't there a thread warning against that site? o.0

Everything looks good to me, I dont know the quality of Koolance Res's, I have only had experience with IandH and EK, and both are Phenomenal. For pump, my DDC 3.25 is awesome, EK makes some nice pumps now, so maybe look at those, or just go with a good ol' switftech MCP, and you will not need more than one pump.

[Church]

There are different HAFs with different sizes (and probably sizes of rads that fit them). I'm guessing that 200mm rad might be similar to 3x120 in performance? Imho you should go to single loop everything, then one pump should suffice (something like this (http://www.aquatuning.de/product_info.php/info/p5080_Laing-DDC-pump-12V-DDC-1Plus.html)+top (http://www.aquatuning.de/product_info.php/info/p5041_EK-Water-Blocks-EK-DDC-X-Top-Laing-DDC-V2---Acetal-top.html))

[chemic]

Hey, I finally got my own access :) yay.. there's my latest configuration what I came up with... comments please :) Flushed my 200mm fatboy fan + radiator idea, when I measured case inside.. 200mm radiator just doesn't fit there :( its ~185mm wide

Watercooling
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CPU Block: EK Water Blocks EK-Supreme HF Full Copper universal (775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3/939/XEON)
Videocard WB/WBs: Aquacomputer aquagraFX for GTX 480 (GF100)
Radiators: XSPC RX240 Dual Radiator to the front (place for DVD drives etc) + XSPC RS240 BLACK Dual Radiator (to the back.. where are these 2 casefans, don't know it yet if I will mount it inside or outside)
Fans: 4x Akasa Apache 120xmm PWM-Fan ( 120x120x25mm )
Reservoir: Koolance Reservoir Inline 240mm V2
Tubing & Size: ClearFlex60 tubing 19/13mm (1/2"ID) clear (2m)
Barb/Fitting Size: 13mm (1/2") fitting G1/4 with O-Ring (12 pieces for backup too)
Pump & Quantity: Laing DDC-pump 12V DDC-1Plus + EK Water Blocks EK-DDC X-Top Laing DDC V2 - Acetal top
Fan Controller: Zalman multifan controller ZM-MFC1

[chemic]

Parts should arrive today... yay! Probably noob questions inc :)

[aberchonbie]

would love to see a build log. hard to WC in the 1200 (well for full internal anyways) without modding.

used to have a cpu loop in a 1200 and didn't get good temps.

[muskel]

the parts are here. soon the building starts!

[chemic]

building done.. gotta solve a little leak problem and find a solution how to slow my MCP355 pump down, its running on ~4k+ rpm's and making way too much noise. I'm thinking of getting a 12V potentiometer to control the speed.. any better ideas? I have a Zalmann 6 fan controller.. wheres 2 are free, but I read from the box that it gives out only 7W per channel.. but pump requires 17W :S So theres probably no way I can regulate my pump with same fan controller.. or do you guys have some good idea?

I'll make a worklog and put some images there.. link incoming soon

[chemic]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=4579646 and here is the worklog with photos :)

[Toolius]

I use this to control my DDC pumps. And works very well too :)

http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=750

Cheers !!