Watercooling dual GPU and CPU components

[Hoodys]

I am brand new to the whole watercooling part of PC's, and it is frankly overwhelming! sorry if I don't make a ton of sense! I'm trying to go for a red/black color scheme, pretty generic for amd I know but I love it.

Anyway I own an FX 8350 and want to overclock it to 5ghz on the Asus Crosshair V formula Z motherboard and would crossfire R9 290's and was hoping someone could recommend me parts to make a water cooled loop for the whole thing, from the ages of research I have done it seems I would need around 600mm of rads but I don't know how strong of a pump or what res I would need.

I was thinking about the swiftech komodo waterblocks for the GPU and EK-Supremacy Universal EVO - Acetal for the cpu waterblock, would I need a waterblock for the MOBO? was also looking at putting all this in the corsair 750D case

 

[Barney6262]

Although I am not overly experience in custom water cooling loops, you won't need a mobo water block unless you are doing Extreme over volting (which you are not,,,, hopefully)

For pumps, the only one I see being reccomended time and time again is the D5 pump :
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/alphacool-laing-vpp655-d5-pump-t12-%281-2-barbed-connectors%29

for the Res Just a bay mounted or tube res would be more than enough. As long as it is mounted ABOVE and hooked directly to the pump it should be fine. This prevents the pump running dry.

Finally, you need to consider what water cooling is actually going to do. For all the money which could be spent on better GPU's it will just make things a bit cooler. Unless you are just saying 'stuff it' and know that the money could be used in a more effective way to yield better performance that is fine.

 

[Zerk2012]

Depending on the thickness of the rads 480 would do fine and for the pump get a duel D5 setup that way if one pump burns out you can still use the PC till the replacement comes in.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

First stop is the watercooling sticky mate, this will give you a good groundbase to work from and allow us to help you more effectively 🙂 but as mentioned, a good 480 worth of rad is plenty, and youll learn about dual pump setups and be able to decide for yourself if its what you want/need there 🙂
Moto