Hey everyone,
I am going to be putting together a new gaming machine soon and want to go with water cooling. I am not much of an overclocker so i don't expect it to be much of a concern, but I am looking at a Core i7 processor and an ATI 5970 graphics card or 2 5870s in crossfire.
What i'm going for mainly is quiet.
Are there any of the external cooling systems that would work for this? I like the look of the Zalman Reserator XT or the Reserator 1 v2 but from what i am reading, these might not have the kind of heat dissipation necessary for this hardware.
Secondly, is there any issues with mixing and matching heating blocks from one manufacturer (like koolance) with a cooling system like i mentioned above (a zalman)? I wouldn't think so but I am just really starting my research into this so i want to make sure i'm not doing anything too preposterous.
i am a pretty experienced system builder but i want to make a water setup that looks good (not really a fan of the water cooled all in one cases i've seen so far, would rather use the case i have and add water cooling onto that), hence why the stand alone solutions by zalman appeal to me. I'm not much of a fabricator to be honest. Hell, cable management alone has taken me years to do passably.
The Zalman solutions are the only options i have seen and they are a bit older, do you guys know of any other solutions that i might not have seen. I have looked at the Koolance external cooling systems as well, but I don't really like how they would go with my case.
Thanks for any info you might feel like enlightening me with!
I am going to be putting together a new gaming machine soon and want to go with water cooling. I am not much of an overclocker so i don't expect it to be much of a concern, but I am looking at a Core i7 processor and an ATI 5970 graphics card or 2 5870s in crossfire.
What i'm going for mainly is quiet.
Are there any of the external cooling systems that would work for this? I like the look of the Zalman Reserator XT or the Reserator 1 v2 but from what i am reading, these might not have the kind of heat dissipation necessary for this hardware.
Secondly, is there any issues with mixing and matching heating blocks from one manufacturer (like koolance) with a cooling system like i mentioned above (a zalman)? I wouldn't think so but I am just really starting my research into this so i want to make sure i'm not doing anything too preposterous.
i am a pretty experienced system builder but i want to make a water setup that looks good (not really a fan of the water cooled all in one cases i've seen so far, would rather use the case i have and add water cooling onto that), hence why the stand alone solutions by zalman appeal to me. I'm not much of a fabricator to be honest. Hell, cable management alone has taken me years to do passably.
The Zalman solutions are the only options i have seen and they are a bit older, do you guys know of any other solutions that i might not have seen. I have looked at the Koolance external cooling systems as well, but I don't really like how they would go with my case.
Thanks for any info you might feel like enlightening me with!
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