Custom Liquid Cooling Kit

[MustardTart24]

I recently purchased a new PC from my cousin. I will say he builds killer PC's but it's not what I want or need. For the main 2 components, I currently have an overclocked FX-8350 and a R9 290x. I want to swap to an overclocked 8-core 5960x Intel i7. This because of high resolution recording of game audio and video, vocal audio, and video and audio editing. I also was looking at the GeForce GTX 980tiThis leads to my two questions.

1. I was looking at a custom water cooling kit. I was wondering if it'd be an issue if I custom water looped a single loop with multiple rads. It seems weird to me that loops go straight from cooling the CPU's to the GPU. You're feeding hot water from the CPU straight to cooling the GPU. From what I see, that's just hot water going in there. So I was curious if you could go from: pump to the CPU, to a rad, then to the GPU'S, then a second rad, then back to the tank.

2. Would it be safer and or more logical to have a closed water loop prenade by EVGA for the GPU instead of custom water looping.

Extra detail of what I'll have inside the mod.

- MSI Gaming Motherboard
- (MSI, EVGA) 980ti...brand undecided and eventually want 2
- 500gb Samsung 850 pro
- 2x WD Black Series 6tb Hard Drive
- Blue Ray/CD/DVD ROM
- 32/64gb Corsair Dominator RAM
- Corsair AX1200i
- Corsair AX1200i power wiring
- Corsair 750D airflow edition (maybe 900D...I'm starting a Youtube channel and hope to expand it)
- Intel i7 5960x
- LED red strip
- Creative Labs ZxR soundcard
- Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro

 

[Karsten75]

You'd be better off selling your "Killer" system and starting from scratch.

 

[hdmark]

i maybe wrong, but from what i understand, the water doesnt actually heat up that much between the CPU and the GPU. The water stays a pretty constant temperature through the entire loop. So throwing an extra radiator in there would most likely help remove heat from the system, but i dont think it matters where the radiator is

 

[MustardTart24]

I am uneducated when it comes to water temp, hdmark...thank you for that...and Karsten75, I am returning the PC for a $1200 full refund. I will be raising money so budget is not a concern.

 

[hdmark]

I am uneducated when it comes to water temp, hdmark...thank you for that...and Karsten75, I am returning the PC for a $1200 full refund. I will be raising money so budget is not a concern.

i would do some research into it to make sure. but pretty sure thats why you see alot of custom loops go straight from the CPU to the GPU. also probably has to do with shorter distances making the pump work less

although if youre going that crazy with the OC maybe it would make sense to do 2 loops? one for each?
not sure honestly... definitely need more research lol


updated - this guy did a radiator after (or before, not sure) each http://pcpartpicker.com/b/MQpbt6
so maybe it does help?

 

[Karsten75]

It would be my strongest possible recommendation to NOT put a custom cooling loop into your first build You have enough to learn and it's eye-candy mostly over closed-loop off-the shelf coolers.

 

[MustardTart24]

Karsten75, my concern is a closed loop won't be capable of cooling an overclock i7 I stated. I want it to go from 3.0 to at least 4.2ghz. That's a big jump amd my fear is a 360mm radiator ( example: thermaltake) won't be enough.

 

[USAFRet]

Karsten75, my concern is a closed loop won't be capable of cooling an overclock i7 I stated. I want it to go from 3.0 to at least 4.2ghz. That's a big jump amd my fear is a 360mm radiator ( example: thermaltake) won't be enough.

Without empirical evidence, you do not know this to be true.
After a short google search

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http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/aio-cooling-i7-6700k.216342/
AIO cooling I7 6700k
"I have a Kraken 61X with 2x Noctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm on my i7 5820K. im running it on push mode, overclocked to 4.2 Ghz on 1.220 V. fans at 60% (1020 rpm) almost dead silent ..under full load on Prime95 it sits still on 63°"

https://gaming.msi.com/article/skylake-z170-overclocking-experience-247-air-water-and-sub-zero-cooling-oc-results
Skylake Z170 overclocking experience: 24/7 air, water and sub-zero cooling OC results
"The Corsair Hydro Series H100i closed loop water cooling solution...."
"Pretty sure we could reach a stable 4800MHz we immediately skipped to 4900MHz. This proved to be stable...."

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462563-best-cooling-solution-for-i7-5820k-air-or-water/
Best cooling solution for i7 5820k air or water
"I have a h100I on my 5820k overclocked to 4.2 ghz with vcore at 1.2v I could push for more as the max load temp is only 68-69 celcius."

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