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venur   01-25-2012 at 12:20:20 AM

I've read the sticky about pumps but I'm still confused. Is their anything else to look at beside noise,power usage and assembly quality ?

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wolfram23   01-25-2012 at 12:22:01 AM

There's the important stuff. Like flow rate and head pressure.

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rubix_1011   01-25-2012 at 12:23:34 AM

It gets fairly simple once you start removing poor pumps from the list of considerations. :)

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venur   01-25-2012 at 12:24:55 AM

venur wrote :

I've read the sticky about pumps but I'm still confused. Is their anything else to look at beside noise,power usage and assembly quality ?



k just realised I had missed 1 sticky talking about looppresure etc. I'll take a look at it.

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venur   01-25-2012 at 12:42:43 AM

rubix_1011 wrote :

It gets fairly simple once you start removing poor pumps from the list of considerations. :)



well I was considering the http://www.frozencpu.com/products/ [...] 30c107s153

So far I'm just thinking about using 2 rad, 2GPU and a CPU block I'm not sure that my mobo do realy need any extra cooling am I wrong ?

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rubix_1011   01-25-2012 at 12:53:55 AM

That is an excellent pump- in fact, most (if not all) rebranded Laing pumps (Swiftech/AquaComputer/Koolance) are very, very good. What other cooling for your MB are you talking about? MB blocks? If so, not likely...the only arguable consideration is north bridge, but really only if you plan on pushing moderately high overclocks.

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venur   01-25-2012 at 01:02:07 AM

rubix_1011 wrote :

That is an excellent pump- in fact, most (if not all) rebranded Laing pumps (Swiftech/AquaComputer/Koolance) are very, very good. What other cooling for your MB are you talking about? MB blocks? If so, not likely...the only arguable consideration is north bridge, but really only if you plan on pushing moderately high overclocks.



yeah was talking about the mobo block (was mentioned in the sticky). Since it will mostly be a gaming PC I don't plan to overclock my CPU that much for now. If it ever hapen I can always buy a second pump I guess.

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rubix_1011   01-25-2012 at 01:05:06 AM
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You'd be fine with a single pump even if you added one. That pump is a beast- don't be fooled by the small size.

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venur   01-25-2012 at 01:28:38 AM

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Cheaptrick   01-25-2012 at 07:36:07 AM

venur wrote :

well I was considering the http://www.frozencpu.com/products/ [...] 30c107s153

So far I'm just thinking about using 2 rad, 2GPU and a CPU block I'm not sure that my mobo do realy need any extra cooling am I wrong ?



This pump looks like the rebranded Koolance PMP-400 pump. I used (2) of this pumps connected to my Koolance RP-401x2 drive bay reservoir. The pump is OK I guess. It's running good in my system. My only problem is the pump controller for it made by Koolance (CTR-SPD10). (2) of this pump controllers died after a day of use. I purchased a cheaper alternative (mCubed T-Balancer FanAmp fan controller) & never have problems with pump controller ever since.

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