I'm a total novice at anything to do with liquid cooling but I am interested in the benefits that it offers. I'm planning a system build towards the end of the year which will consist of the following components:
-Asus Sabertooth X58
-Intel Core i7 960 (stock speed)
-6x Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 1600
-Western Digital VelociRaptor 450GB 10k RPM SATA HDD
-6x Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7200 RPM SATA HDD
-EVGA GTX 560 2GB GDDR5
-Kingwin Lazer 1000 Watt Modular PSU
-Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Case
The main problem I have is that I'm torn over which way I should cool it. Typical air cooling would probably heat up the room that it would be in and drone from all the fans would be uncomfortable as well. So how could a water or liquid cooling system help out? Would it help the overall ambient temperature in the room and would it be a quieter system overall?
If water or liquid cooling is the way to go in this example, what kind of system would be recommended? I want to specifically cool the CPU and GPU obviously, but also the main boot drive (the VelociRaptor) and the main storage drives (all 6 of the Hitachis). From what I understand, one large loop of the coolant going to every component before returning to the radiator/reservoir would result in less effective cooling towards the last connected devices. Should I split it into two systems (i.e. one for CPU/GPU, one for HDDs, or one for CPU and half the HDDs and the other for the GPU and the other half of the HDDs).
Since I'm a complete novice at building liquid cooling systems, I would really appreciate some input and help into my idea. Thanks in advance for all the replies and help.
-Asus Sabertooth X58
-Intel Core i7 960 (stock speed)
-6x Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 1600
-Western Digital VelociRaptor 450GB 10k RPM SATA HDD
-6x Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7200 RPM SATA HDD
-EVGA GTX 560 2GB GDDR5
-Kingwin Lazer 1000 Watt Modular PSU
-Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Case
The main problem I have is that I'm torn over which way I should cool it. Typical air cooling would probably heat up the room that it would be in and drone from all the fans would be uncomfortable as well. So how could a water or liquid cooling system help out? Would it help the overall ambient temperature in the room and would it be a quieter system overall?
If water or liquid cooling is the way to go in this example, what kind of system would be recommended? I want to specifically cool the CPU and GPU obviously, but also the main boot drive (the VelociRaptor) and the main storage drives (all 6 of the Hitachis). From what I understand, one large loop of the coolant going to every component before returning to the radiator/reservoir would result in less effective cooling towards the last connected devices. Should I split it into two systems (i.e. one for CPU/GPU, one for HDDs, or one for CPU and half the HDDs and the other for the GPU and the other half of the HDDs).
Since I'm a complete novice at building liquid cooling systems, I would really appreciate some input and help into my idea. Thanks in advance for all the replies and help.
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