Water cooling Loop Question

[Guttzu]

So I got all my parts in for my water cooling loop but I was wondering if I would be ok with running this EK Waterblocks EK-FB EVGA X58 LE - Nickel Acetal along with the cpu block (HEATKILLER® CPU Rev3.0 1366 - Limited Edition Nickel/Chrome Plated Waterblock) off of one of these HW Labs Black Ice SR1 360 Carbon Black - Triple 120mm

Pump is a : Swiftech MCP355 12v DC Pump

Reservoir: XSPC Acrylic Dual 5.25in. Reservoir for Two Laing DDC's

Fans for the Rad are S-Flex SFF21F Case Fans
Please give suggestions.

 

[Slaymate]

The Mosfets on the X58 LE (E757) are located in a different position than the X58 SLI (E758) so I don't think that chipset block is what you want. This will work
Enzotech EVX-58 Waterblock - for EVGA X58 SLI Products Model: EVX-58 [EVX-58] : Performance-PCs.com, ... sleeve it and they will come

 

[Guttzu]

Thanks for the suggestion Slay... so should I be ok with cooling the CPU and the chipset with the single radiator? I mean run the pump to the CPU first and then the chipset would make the most sense right?

 

[Guttzu]

Well Wtf that sucks that the mosfets are in different positions...

 

[Slaymate]

I think you'll be OK with a single rad, but I'm no expert on watercooling.

I wouldn't go straight from the pump to the cpu. The pump generates a small amount of heat. I would go from the pump to the radiator with the pump pulling the water thru the cpu block.

 

[Burn]

The heat dump from pumps is insignificant when looking at CPU temps. There is MAYBE a .5C difference between going pump -> cpu and rad -> cpu. Just do whatever looks cleanest.

While the SR-1 is a nice rad it's way overpriced... you can get the swiftech MCR320 for half the price and lose hardly nothing performance wise.

I'd say a single rad with all that is pushing it, depending on how good you want your temps to be. On an overclocked i7 I'd estimate a 10C water - air delta

 

[Guttzu]

The main goal right now is to get the CPU cooled and the chipset. The stock chipset cooling sucks pretty bad so If I can get decent temps with a single Rad on the cpu and chipset I would be happy. Adding WC to a new video car will come later and at that point I'll go another pump and another rad. I would then have a single loop on the CPU and then have a loop for the video card/chipset... Lots of space at the bottom of my CM ATCS 840 to cut out some HDD bays and put another 360 pump in...

Edit... thanks Burn for the input! I am going for noise to performance ratio now so I don't really want to go a beasty delta on Megahalems... plus Slay is getting my Megahalems here as soon as I can find a weekend to install the WC loop...

 

[eagle5968]

this is what i use on my evga e758 a1
EK-FB KIT EVGA X58 Full Board Northbridge/Southbridge Water Block- EVGA X58 3SLI -Acetal Products Model: EK-FB KIT EVGA X58-AC [EK-FB KIT EVGA X58-AC] : Performance-PCs.com, ... sleeve it and they will come

 

[Guttzu]

Thanks for the post eagle... I'll keep that in mind when I get that cooling...