Some watercooling questions.

[Cookiesowns]

Sup guys,

I'm planning to do a build or possibly two really soon. First build would most likely be in a Case Labs case with two 480 rads and possibly a third or one 240/360 rad. And currently I'm debating on loop/pump and radiator/fan choices.

My preffered choices would be GT AP-15's, but I would like some fans that can push the static pressure needed for a medium FPI rad, 7-15FPI. I would like something that can do 2000rpm, and be quiet at around 1300RPM.

As far as pumps goes, would you do 2x655's or 2xMCP35x's? I'm planning to doing dual loop dual pumps each, Single 480 rad for the LGA2011 CPU by itself, and then the other loop for 4xGPU's + MB, potentially memory blocks as well.

I'm currently looking at the case labs cases for this build.

Second system would be CPU + 2GPU at the most, so I was planning a 480 rad for the Cosmos II, and then a thick 240 rad with push pull fans.

Are there currently any fans that can match or beat the AP-15's?


Thanks

[stren]

Personally I went with 655s because I didn't want to have to worry about the temperature of the 35x's and running air over them. If you're ok with airflow over them then I'd lean towards the 35x's personally.

For fans I haven't heard of anything outclassing the AP15 in terms of noise to airflow through a radiator. Some people claim there are fans with better tones or less bearing noise though if you want to go closer to silent.

[Cookiesowns]

Personally I went with 655s because I didn't want to have to worry about the temperature of the 35x's and running air over them. If you're ok with airflow over them then I'd lean towards the 35x's personally.

For fans I haven't heard of anything outclassing the AP15 in terms of noise to airflow through a radiator. Some people claim there are fans with better tones or less bearing noise though if you want to go closer to silent.

The airflow should be decent. I've had one MCP355 burn out on me, but partly because little to no air was running through them, and it was running at high RPM's. I'm going to have to read up on martin's or skinne's benches on dual pump 655 vs 355/35x's for sure, also, do you happen to know which fans those are?

I've seen some really nice 1500rpm fans, but I'll most likely want to push 1800-2000 when I'm overclocking.

Would you say a single 480 raid with push pull AP-15's for a cpu only loop will be enough? What about dual 480 rads + maybe an additional 240 for 4xgpu and MB block would be good? From what I already know, it's more than enough, but would you guys rather do one big loop with dual pumps, or dual loops with dual pumps? ( I'll have the space for it, and for now the budget is not of concern )

EDIT: Any other comparable choices to the Case labs cases? Also, what about the other Gentle typhoons. The AP-30 looks very tempting, but what about the speed range, and the noise at around 800-1500RPM.