auroraXP

is this loop excesively good? check it out..

triple loop

1 - cpu, nbrige, sbridge, mosfet
2 - tri sli
3 - ram, hdd

or should i air cool ram and hdd and make nbride/sbridge and mosfet 3rd loop or keep it with the cpu..

Spectre21

Welcome to the forum

you dont need to do the ram and hdd, unless you want to? Northbridge and southbridge dont need watercooling, just stick some decent fans on them and just loop the gpu and cpu

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Ecstasis

There really isn't a point to water cool your RAM, or your hard drives. It's a waste of money. Air cooling/heatsinking is more than enough for those components.

Furthermore, waterblocks on your mosfet, and southbridge are also a waste of time and money. Putting a fan on the southbridge is enough, and heatsinks on the mosfet is more than adequate, even with excessively overclocked systems.

Cooling your CPU and GPU's is great, as well as the nb (if you plan on overclocking), but I'd see no legitimate purpose for the hundreds of dollars you're going to waste on the other parts.

I run one loop from my CPU, to my NB, to my two GPU's, and then back. My temps run around 34C on maximum tilt (Playing Crysis or Company of Heroes).

auroraXP

Yea, I know about the Hdd and Ram is a stupid idea but I am going to cool the N/S Bridge and Mosfet so.. Should I do triple loop or dual?

Ecstasis

Again, you're wasting your time/money with the southbridge and mosfet.

The performance difference, even with watercooling is going to be next to nothing because these components generate negligible heat to begin with. They're low-level functioning parts that only do basic voltage regulations and routing routines.

But I have a feeling you're going more for looks than functionality, so just dual loop it. You're spending hundreds on aesthetics, and it's going to be a gigantic pain in the arse for you, but that's the way to go if you're going to do it.

RyGuy

A budget would be nice to know. I still think SB/MOSFET WC is a waste, and would make your CPU/GPU temps higher if they were in the same loop. If you are going to do it I would put the CPU, NB and FETs on one loop and the GPUs and SB on the other. Either way you are going to be dropping insane cash if you are going to be doing all that. If I were you I would make a CPU/NB loop and a loop with the 3 cards.

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nategr8ns

yeah, SB and mosfet is pointless unless you just want bragging rights. If I were you I would have a CPU>NB loop and a 3xGFX loop.

Thats just what I would do

EDIT: @ ryguy, didn't see your post when I was posting

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RyGuy

No worries. Also, about the bragging rights, you won't get much response here, most people will call you dumb if you say you water-cooled your RAM/HDD/SB or FETs unless it looked really good, which is near impossible.

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auroraXP

marcus000 enigma project is where i got the idea from.. it's hotttt. it makes me wanna do sb nb fet hdd and ram.. what are good ram and hdd, nb, sb, and fet blocks?