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    Liquid cooling parts list help

    I'm building a custom computer with the following parts:

    Intl core i7 980x CPU
    Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 GPU
    Silverstone Strider ST1500 PSU
    Intel X25-M 160GB G2 SSD
    Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black
    Panasonic Blu-Ray burner
    Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard
    12GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz
    Corsair Obsidian 800D
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

    I have $500-$900 left in my budget for cooling, sleeving, sound card, etc. I'm wanting to go with water cooling for the system. I'm thinking roughly the following:

    Swiftech Apogee XT cpu block: $70

    http://www.petrastechshop.com/swapxtcpuwa1.html

    EK FC 5970 gpu block with 3/8" barb: $154

    http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...dfd3629f10acc1

    EK FB Kit GA-X58 (UD7) chipset blocks: $140

    http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...b4ff524c53a3c4

    Swiftech MCR-320 QP radiator: $48

    http://www.petrastechshop.com/swmcqposerab1.html

    Laing DDC 3.2 / Swiftech MCP355 pump: $75

    http://www.petrastechshop.com/ladd1mcin12p.html

    XSPC Reservoir (custom top) for Liang DDC: $40

    http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...d78e49a73c2a79

    10 feet Primoflex Pro LRT UV Blue tubing, 3/8" ID x 5/8" OD: $20

    http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=23366

    All of this would leave me with $241 left in my budget. Enough to get either a sound card, some MDCP-X sleeving, or another pump, reservoir top, and radiator for a second loop. Assuming I could figure out how to mount that stuff in the Corsair case.

    What else would I want or need to cool this stuff? I plan to overclock the cpu and memory but probably not overclock the gpu.

    I'm thinking that I like the Bitspower compression fittings and that those are tempting. What about a fill port or something like that? I'm pretty new to water cooling (this is my first) and could use all the help I could get.

    Should I consider a bay mounted pump and/or reservoir instead of the ones I have listed above? Should I consider the "stackable" versions of the radiators in order that I can have one triple for my cpu and one for my gpu?

    What do you guys recommend?
    Last edited by Bolas; 03-30-2010 at 06:48 AM.

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