Can anyone rate the primochill Typhoon III?

[BoxGods]

I want to get the Typhoon III but have a question.

Since I have a faceplate covering my drive bays, can I move the reservoir towards the inside of the case more? I know I won't be able to see it from the front, but I can still see it through the case side window.

I also understand I may have to drill some holes to mount in the drive bays to seat it further back?

Thanks.

Yes you can slide it back behind a face plate. There are custom machined aluminum face plates for the T3 also that will be available in a few weeks. You can check back a page or two for some pictures.

Planning on taking the 240 from the video card loop and adding it to the CPU/NB loop and getting another 360 for the VC loop. So a total of 3 rads.

When I aded the VREG/NB blocks I saw a 1 - 2 degree increase at idle temps, so thought is adding a 240 there will help bring them down.

Run at 4Ghz 24/7 and am looking at 47 degrees at idle on CPU loop. Same on VC but it goes up to around 60 with anythng much of a load. Only OC the VC's when I am benching.

If I do go with the T3, will I need one or 2 units with this set-up?

I do believe one would be enough if you laid out the loops optimally. What that lay out would be for your particular set up might take a bit of experimenting--which it does not sound like you are shy about doing.

Utnorris replaced a two pump dual loop system with a single pump T3 and his temperatures held at what they were previously, without the second pump. He added another rad when he switched out to the single D5 T3 which no doubt helped, but he still ended up with less total radiator then your looking at.

From a total possible cost perspective (does not seem like cost is something your shy about either but it IS a consideration) I think it breaks down best depending on what pumps you have now.

one T3 and one D5 or the worst case 2 T3's and 2 D5's

vs

one XSPC Dual and 2 DDC's or worst case 2 XSPC Duals and 4 DDC's

Go with what you have "in stock"