jdave420

Hey i have another water cooling question. I was wondering if a 350 pump (This) is enough to have cpu, vga, chipset, and dual 5 1/4" reservoir? My initial thought was no and i was going to buy another 355 pump from swiftech but if i can save myself almost 80 dollars if i don't need one i will. Any help would be appreciated Thanks



Edit: another question. Does anybody have the swiftech universal chipset cooler (MCW30) if so does anybody use it with the P5N-E SLI? I was just wondering if it would be compatible with my board. Thanks

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SergeRY

Are you familiar with Martin's Flow Rate Estimator? Plug in your components and it will give you a pretty good estimate of your flow. It has a handy reference for what type of flow is adequate, good, excellent, etc. Depending on your blocks and rad, you can probably do fine with 1 pump.

if you are still having trouble with this, post up you components so far and we can give some recommendations.
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-serge

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ira-k

It would be marginal for it, use free flowing blocks like a Fuzion for CPU and the Swifty 60 for GPU, that Swifty NB block is really free flowing...Don't get a rad like the GTS, its pretty restrictive..

What I would do is just try it first, if you get crap temps I'd just get another 10W DDC/350 and run it in series with the one you already have, its a little cheaper then a 18W DDC/355 to, 2 of them in series will double your head and give you another 20-30% more flow...

Is that 10W DDC the one that came with your kit? Are you able to use an after market top with it? If its like a normal one a top will pump your flow on up a little also..EK-DDC X-TOP

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jdave420

ok first i don't think i can put the aftermarket top on my 350 pump. ok the components i have so far are as follows: Swiftech H20-220 Compact (rad, cpu), MCW60-R vga block, MCW30 (maybe?) chipset, dual 5 1/4 bay reservoir (maybe?). Those are the components that i hope to run with the single 350 pump (3/8" ID). I don't have excel so i couldn't use that program.

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You can get "Open Office" for free, it will open it, thats what I did...I didn't look, but you'll probably get around 1-1.25gpm with all that in your loop..I like keeping my flow well above 1.5gpm for performance..But like i was saying before, just try what you have first, its not going to run so hot as to hurt your rig, at least not at stock..

That rad is not going to do to well temp wise, later on I'm pretty sure you'll want to upgrade it also...Your going to need some decent cfm fans on it to with CPU,GPU and NB...Something at least this size.86cfm Pana ..You can add 2 more in a push also and get a little better cooling...Shrouds will help a little to, a shroud is the cheapest few C you can get in WC'ing..

..How To: Make any Sized shroud in 2 minutes

..How To: Build A Performance Shroud

So really I think you might be better off getting another rad now, then either cut in another 10W DDC later or a 18W if you prefer it..

I'd just get a 360 GTX, they are on sale here..360 GTX ..If thats to much right now at least grab a 320 Swifty, but I think you would be $$$ ahead getting a GTX, its just a lot more high performance rad...

..360 GTX Beats PA.3 w/47cfm Fans

..HWlabs 480GTX thermals-Martin

..Part-1-480 GTX-Temps W & W/O Shrouds

If noise isn't a problem the old BIX is still a real good rad..360 BIX .You could get by with those 86cfm Pana on it and get decent temp's, 115cfm Pana would bring it to life though..115cfm Pana

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rpm666

lol dude you don't have office? I'll zip it up for you tonight lol.

EDIT: So Emily calls me a minute ago and asks me "What's this box from newegg for?"

Yeeahhhh about that mineral rights check....we need to talk.

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you can always solder a point on the pump and mod it into a 355

SergeRY

I am not sure what parts you have. The H2O-220 compact uses the combo cpu block/pump and swiftech 220 rad. But you will use a second pump, the 350? and want to add a gpu and chipset block? if that is not the case could you clarify which parts you already have.

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