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Haf 932 with cpu loop for now

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So I'm about to build my first watercooling ever and currently thinking where to place all the parts.

The reason why I considered watercooling is because of noise from GPU, I find that even the best air coolers are not silent enough for GPU's.

For now I'll build CPU loop and hopefuly I can easily add a 7970, I think it might be enough with just a 360 rad.

In future I propable will have crossfire 7970 and then my thin 360 rad is propably not enough any longer so I need to add more radiators.

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Reply to grandpatzer
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I hope you've been reading up on the stickies and whatnot.

As for adding a GPU, I don't think you'd have enough rad space to cool it quietly. A thicker 360 with high speed (i.e. high noise) fans could most likely do the job, but if you're looking for a near-silent solution, you should be looking at much more space.

Take a look at some of the Martin Liquid Labs radiator round ups. From there you can get an idea of how much heat the rads will dissipate with specific fan speeds. Then you just need to match the heat dissipation to the heat production (generally the TDP of the CPU + GPU) in order to find the minimum cooling you need.

Reply to boiler1990

@grandpatzer-

Please realize that watercooling doesn't automatically mean 'silence'. In fact, my watercooled loop is more noisy than most people's air-cooled rigs I know. When you add radiators, you have your normal case fans IN ADDITION to fans needed for radiator cooling. Simple math = you have several more fans that create noise.

Also, noise level is highly subjective. Silence means many, many different things to many people.

What kind of 'silence' are you inferring?


+1 on boiler's response.

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