my 1st water cooling build

[nitrofan]

Please give comments about parts listed or how the loop should flow.
I have been reading these posts for a while and read numerous reviews but this is my first attempt at building with water cooling hardware.
I already have decided to use the black Lian PC-A71F full tower case and know the Black Ice GTX-360 radiator will fit under the top panel after removing the top hard drive cage.
Air will be pushed through the gtx-360 radiator by three Akasa 120mm 600-1800rpm PWM Fans.

I plan to use the Swiftech Maelstrom 5.25" Dual Bay Reservoir w/ Single MCP35X Pump to push XSPC EC6 High Performance Premix fluid through Tygon R-3603 3/8" - 5/8" tubing and will drop an IandH antimicrobial .999 silver kill coil strip in the reservoir.
I don’t know if there will be room to mount the Swiftech MCP35X-HS pump heatsink.

Water Blocks:
cpu: XSPC RayStorm high performance acetal special edition copper,
video: EK GeForce 660 GTX VGA full coverage,
ram: EK X4 acetal-nickel coated copper Monarch series,
hd: Koolance HD-57 Hydra-Pak Dual Hard Drive block
I haven’t completely decided on the ram and hard drive blocks.

fittings/nozzles: Koolance QD3 Quick Disconnect 10mm x 16mm G 1/4 & compressions
filter: Koolance INS-FLTR04 Inline Coolant Filter

Electronics:
Power: Cool Power 875W modular dual rail power supply
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G41 Intel Z77 Socket H2 ATX Motherboard
CPU: Intel i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core processor
Ram: Corsair Dominator 16 or 32GB DDR3 1600MHz CL10 1.5V
O/S drive: Crucial M4 64 or 128GB SSD
Data drive: Western Digital WD20EARX 2TB 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
Video: eVGA GeForce GTX660 2GB PCIE 3.0x16

Thought 1:
The loop will flow from the radiator to the pump/reservoir,
Pump/reservoir to the cpu block then the video block,
Video block to a filter then back to the radiator.

Thought 2:
The loop will flow from the radiator to the pump/reservoir,
Dual Pump/reservoir outlets:
Out1 to the cpu block then the video block,
Video block to a t-block,
Out2 to the ram block then the hard drive block,
Hard drive block to the t-block,
t-block to a filter then back to the radiator.

 

[Alpha3031]

If it's your first time maybe try a closed loop

 

[nitrofan]

If it's your first time maybe try a closed loop

1 i have the ability to assemble the parts,
2 i want to do it myself,
3 i already have the black ice gtx-360 radiator.
thanks.

 

[Alpha3031]

If it's your first time maybe try a closed loop

1 i have the ability to assemble the parts,
2 i want to do it myself,
3 i already have the black ice gtx-360 radiator.
thanks.

In that case, try experimenting with the second one and if it doesn't work just use the first layout

 

[toolmaker_03]

Here is how I would do a single radiator parallel setup, and this one worked out great.

 

[nitrofan]

sorry i haven't been able to get on here for a while.
i can't see pics, what do you think of thought #2 with the t-block toolmaker?

 

[toolmaker_03]

My communication skills are really bad so not being able to see my pics hurts me and my ability to explain things, but yes a parallel setup on that much hardware would be beneficial.