re: Water Cooling: My First Loop

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1. What is your goal with this loop? (e.g., you want to really push your hardware, you just like the aesthetics, you want something quiet, you only want to OC CPU, etc. etc.)

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Honestly a little bit of all of that. I love building computers and I decided to finally go with water. Just something to mess around with.

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2. How much 5.25" bay space do you have? This will determine selection on reservoir, pump, and possibly fan controller.

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5 total bays. 3 are occupied BUT I removed the brackets for the 3.5" bays so I have a good bit of room under the 5.25"s.

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3. Unrelated, but why 3 SSDs? RAID?

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Bought a 60GB a few years ago and use it for my OS and a couple programs. Then I bought a 128 last summer. Then I got a 250 at microcenter because it was an insane deal

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4. Are you water cooling only GPU and CPU? (i.e., not RAM, Mobo chipset, etc. -- which is not recommended anyway).

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CPU, GPU, and maybe RAM. I just like the look of RAM under water but it isn't necessary

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5. How important is PC silence? There are three desirable features: Compact, quiet, and better cooling performance. And in general, you can only pick two, and compromise on the third.

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Performance, Quietnes, and Compact in that order.

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6. What about aesthetics?

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I want it to look nice but I don't care about it being all custom spec'ed out and what not. As long as it doesn't look like crap I'm good.

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7. Rough estimate of your total watercooling budget?

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I don't wanna drop $1000 on it but really anything that is quality and within reason I'm good with.