Advice on installing Water/Liquid cooling for my setup

[greeneye]

Hello,

I'm after some educational and helpful advice on a proper liquid cooling setup.

I'm currently using a Corsair H50 and i feel that its not doing enough for me. I hate temperatures over 55*c on my CPU and I really would like to go much higher on the overclock, along with my GPU (Stock fan cooler)


Now im after some information on what I should probably choose for a radiator, pump, tubing and a waterblock. Iv'e already ordered a Swiftech Hi-Flo Acrylic Reservior Rev-2 because I originally wanted to 'Mod' my H50.


I have very little idea on what hardware i need to pick for some decent temperature results. But i have a fairly decent idea on installation.


My case dosent have the best room for a triple-sized radiator + pump. [Fractal Design Define R2], so I saw a MCR220 heat drive exchanger going for a decent price [Intergrated Pump - MCP350, Intergrated Resovior and 2x 120mm fan slots/size]

Or should I go for a complete WC system - Radiator, Pump, Waterblock, Resovior.

This will be the first ive installed a main-proper WC system (H50/H70 is way to simple for my likings.. and isn't changable like a proper WC system).

I can probably run a triple sized radiator on the top of my case wich is fine (MCR320 Heat Drive Exchanger is also available for this size), because i would like to setup CPU, Mobo (if its still efficent enough) and GPU.

Eventually once i get the hang of WC and setting up nicely i will end up going all out and having all bits in the case. But if this MCR220/MCR320 heat drive exchanger isn't exactly a improvement then i will go all out on seperate items.

And im after any other advice that i should be aware of from setting up my first WC setup.

Thanks

 

[Skoobs]

looking at your case, you wont have room for a 240 (120.2) radiator on top, unless you house it outside or half in and half out. figure you need a good 60-100 mm up top for the thickness of a radiator and fans (completely mounted inside) thats a good... oh hell, wheres my ruler... 4 inches. your best bet would be to look at the external koolance shroud to maintain looks:

http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=983

with that thing, i think you could mount the fans outside the case and the radiator inside. the space would still be questionable.

your other option- that i can think of- would be a completely external setup. you can hang the rad off the back of the computer or set it on top. or you could get something like

http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=805

or

http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=1030

but those are expensive. the second one is sweet though, and it looks good next to a computer.