Hello to you XS Long time reader, new poster.

Me and a friend plan on making our own low-budget(very low!) watercooling, getting parts in the cheapest way possible, while still having some performance, and very low noise.

While this is the first time eigher of us try watercooling, i have okay basic-knowledge of it. My friend has access to an CNC machine, so it is pretty obvious where we get our waterblock We only plan on cooling the CPU for starters.

Anyhow, here is the idea I had.


Blue is water-in, and red is water-out. Dont mind the weird pins, just me being a bit too lazy there .

I hope that it is not too restrictive. Maybe we should make the block smaller in heigh, thus increasing the flow a bit(right?)

Since this is a low-budget DIY watercooling, the pump we will use might be a cheap Eheim-1000 moddet to be inline. But i just dont know if the waterblock will require a stronger pump.

We do not need extreme low temperatures, just something in the leauge of high-end air or something, but the noise must be kept at a minimum.

I hope i am not asking very stupid questions or something.. But what do you think of the block-design?