ASUS Striker II Extreme

[skinnee]

Ok, I know this is a little off topic but I need some recomendations
I dont know which one should I set up, both have advantages.
Prototype 1 will bring all the cold water straight to the CPU then NB
Prototype 2 will bring all cold water and store it on the reservoir (basically), I heard this is the most common and most used?

Here is prototype 1


Which one do you think would work better? I want the best performance.

By having the loop order Res > Pump > Rad > Blocks > Res you remove all of the heat dump from the pump and have the liquid going from Rad to blocks, all the "heated coolant" will go to the res, heat dump of the pump to rad again. I have my all three of my loops running that way.

Will get shrouds, thats something I forgot to add to my list hehe.
About the SB, I dont know. I dont want to have a 3x120 rad for everything since my main concern is the CPU and the NB.
If I decide to wc the SB, that means either cut the heatpipe or buy Thermalright mosfet coolers and a SB block. Plus I would have to find a block that is super-low profile in case someday I decide to buy GTX 280 or something that big for SLI.

If you WC the NB, you have to get coolers for the Mosfets and SB as well. The Asus Heat pipe is one unit.

Evercool makes a block that fits on the SB and allows Tri-SLI, no WC for the SB, but you atleast get some fan over cooler relief for the SB.

If you WC the SB, you cannot run Tri-SLI, you will need a very short PCIE card to fit in PCIEX16-3. I added an EK Asus 5 to my SB, so the 9600GT I had for my second display is no go. Will only be able to do SLI and a single display.

Why do you say wc the SB? Because the SB itself gets hot or because SLI makes it get hot? (Remember 8800GT are 1 slo, I can clearly see my SB from my window). Adding the Spotcool to the SB I think would be good dont you think?

If you don't WC the SB, run the Evercool.