Yay! BTW I would like the most cores on the CPU and the most and fastest RAM for my money keeping the watercooling!
Ideas, anyone...?
CPU - AMD or Intel?
Nvidia or AMD video card? (overclocking? GPU)
Required screen resolution from video cards?
Purpose of build - gaming?
Also do you have a case in mind? or at least a style/size.
Is the loop CPU only, GPU only, including the motherboard, RAM, what?
Do you want/need a GPU, or are you just doing heavy CPU stuff?
I'm definitely doing CPU + GPU but I'll only do RAM and mobo if it doesn't compromise the quality of the components. I'll be using this for a gaming machine but I will also be doing video editing and photoshop and composing on it so a sound card, 12GB/16GB of RAM and a card with lots of cuda cores. I will overclock anything I have watercooled :)
Even putting the CPU and GPU will pretty harshely compromise power.
Processor: AMD 8350 OR Intel 3770K {if it comes to it Haswell - if it's cheaper or better for the money}
GPU: whichever type is better for video editing and photoshop etc. (I think it's nVidia but I'm not sure)
Screen resolution: 1920 x 1080 on a 23'' monitor (may get two or an extra one in the future)
Case: not too huge (e.g. Corsair 900D) but fits sufficient radiators etc. I could mod a 200R to hold a 360mm radiator. I won't do ITX as I'll probably do something wrong but MATX looks sufficient for my needs
What do you mean?
Any more ideas? No?
i was thinking about something like this:http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1j0zs
on this you have some money left, to spend on the full loop LC cooling. i dont know if that is enough, if not, then you can pickup a 2GB GTX770 version. to save some extra money.
Thanks, will (might) do.
Hold on, I'll find some stuff for you.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1j1rL
There we go.
That is all you need for a loop, not including tubing or coolant. For coolant, I highly recommend just using deionized, distilled water; it performs the best thermally. Otherwise, you will spend even more money. For tubing, make sure it is 3/8" by 5/8" to fit with the compression fittings. I recommend Primochill Advanced LRT, in clear (other colors work just as well), just because it is incredibly high quality tubing, but most any tubing will work. Look out for plasticisers, and such. Get about 3 meters of it, maybe 4 to protect yourself from any mistakes you (will) make.
EDIT: I'm an idiot. That case can't hold a 360mm radiator; I assumed we were working with a full ATX case, but I was really just adapting for Mistery's build. Instead, you can get dual 240mm radiators, and just two more fittings.
Thanks again to the forum, will (probably{might}) do
I don't believe that chassis fits the radiator that you've chosen. I would pick a 240mm radiator with about 35mm of depth, just to be certain it will give enough clearance.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1jI0C
That's closer to what I would get. You'll probably need a little extra tubing, coolant, and some fittings. There's a good £300 to play around with, judging by your last PCpartpicker entry. The XSPC kits give you much of what you need, a good place to start.
Some of the changes I made include reducing the RAM from 4 modules to 2 modules. If you go beyond dual channel memory, you'll start to hurt your own performance.
Little things like a faster drive. There's no reason to look at 5200RPM drives.
At leas pick a chassis with a window, dude. Unless, you want to mod that too.
In fact, I was wrong to suggest the RS240 kit earlier. You'll probably want a bigger chassis altogether, with space for a couple of rads, if you're going to do GPU and CPU in a loop.
At least 480mm of rad space would be my rule of thumb. You can certainly get away with 360mm, but I prefer 2x 120m fan spaces per component.
I can't add it now, but I will add more radiators or/and fans in the future.