Striker II watercooling ordeal: CPU/chipset/GPU single/multiple loop - ideas anyone?

[polar bear]

woah woah woah. well, ok, not that bad, but i have a few suggestions..

Appreciate your input!

ur probably gona need a 120.3 for ur 3 GTX's and a PA say 160 or 120.2 would do just fine to cool the chipset. The Thermochill's are worth it especially if noise matters to u at all, which with a wife i'm assuming it would.

Granted, I may take the plunge for the thermochills - why be skimpy on those when I'm going all the way with everything else? Although I guess it all also depends on which fans I choose. So far I've been using these for my 2x120mm rad - they're supposed to move 100 m³/hr running at 1700 rpm/28 dB.

If you already have those VGA blocks then stick with them and try not to mix metals. the zalmans are aluminum if i remember correctly. 3 MCW 60's will give you better temps with less flow restriction as well.

Allright, well I think I'd be very hestitant to replace the GPU blocks now; after all I just got them up and running.

Pumps, all 3 are great choices. the D5 is the fav. around here for its reliability and good pump specs. the DDC's tend to have a bit more head presure than the D5 but there was a slew of failures in the DDC line. They seem to have been fixed though.

Well, I will be running the D5 in the CPU 1/2" ID circuit, but for the other two loops I'm looking for 3/8 pumps as I dont want to use any hose adapters. Any info on the eheim/aquacomputer? The flow rate is like the E1046; 300LPH but it has been modified to push 0,42 bar / 4.2m H2O.

**EDIT** Tubing runs for GPU blocks could be much much shorter.

Ahem yes it was a bit of a nightmare setting this up as I got into all sorts of problems running 3/8" tubing with kinking no matter how hard I tried to avoid it, so I had to extend the tubing until the kinks disappeared... although for the revised setup I was considering something like this:



Alternatively, I see that this solves this without T-pieces as the tubes can run straight into the fittings with no need for bending:


EK-FC8800 GTX/Ultra

As I said I'd probably try not to replace the current Zalman blocks as they were quite expensive so I will try to modify the tubing a bit instead.

All opinions, take all of them worth a grain of salt

Well, as I said any advice is good as obviously I'm going to cash out lots on this rig.

1 more question, y that EK block for a quad SLI rig? thats for an ATI HD3870 x2 card. maybe i just read it wrong.

Allright, so what I meant here is that I am planning to upgrade my Maximus Extreme rig at the same time with 2x 3870X2s running watercooled in CrossfireX, although the ATI drivers are not ready... yet.