Liquid cooling help.

Hey guys. I have about $300-$400 for a liquid cooling setup. Was hoping somebody would help me pickout a few parts. I'd like to cool my CPU, my dual GPUs and possibly my mobo. Everything else will be air cooled. I have a i7 4790k, dual 290xs, and an Asus Z97 WS mobo. Case is a Coolermaster Cosmos 2.

You can watercool your motherboard?

Anyways. There's some great tutorials on YouTube about how to go about watercooling your GPU. I recommend you check it out as you might have a different idea about rigging a water cooler up or buying and attachment.

I'm pretty sure you could get a custom loop built, but the nicest (coolest) water cooler to use is the Cooler Master Nepton 280. Apparently it's pretty loud coming in at 58.8dB.

Haha, was talking about the North/South bridge
after some reading it seems like its not really worth it. My buddy can get some deals on Zalman water cooling components but I want to run a custom loop to cool my dual GPUs and CPU all from the same radiator. Was looking on Frozen CPU but there are ALOT of options to go with.

You think its a better idea to run something like that nepton instead of a custom setup? I can see how having its fans and radiator separate from the GPUs fan and radiator may be better but it also seems like it'd waste more power running 2 separate radiators not to mention the ammount of space it would take up. I guess it won't be that big of an issues since I'm getting the Cooler master Cosmos 2 but I'd rather get some more inputs before making a decision.

Corsair do a h110i gt 280mm which is a great cooler. A custom cooler is good but is much more expensive for the temperature difference, looks is the main thing people go for . With regards Gpu cooling is a good idea if you plan to overclock far enough. Although a 290x is very hot a good idea is to replace the TIM with better stuff as the stuff it comes with is bad and that will reduce temps by 10 or so degrees if your having throttling issues.

You would ideally need 2 radiators. 1 for GPUs and 1 for the cpu. Those gpu's put out a lot of heat so having a single radiator for both will reduce performance quite a bit.

That makes sense. Everybody continues to suggest CPU coolers though. Any Dual GPU coolers out there? Or will they each need there own setup?

$300-$400 won't get you much for a custom setup. the water blocks alone for CPU and dual GPU will likely be over $300 alone.

You might be able to get away with a high FPI thick 280mm radiator for both 290x (no CPU) but that is probably pushing it. I would probably look at a thick 360 rad if I were in your shoes. Probably still over the budget when you add it all up.

I am no means an expert. I just did a bunch of reading before deciding against WC for myself.

For GPU cooling, you need a pump, tubing, screwy things, water blocks for the GPU, maybe backplates, a reservoir, and a 360 rad preferably.

I would suggest a more liquid cooling oriented forum like overclock.net or the like

2 good gpu blocks and a cpu block will be ~$380 by themselves, a ddc pump and top is ~$90 or ~$120 for a d5 pump and top. A reservoir will probably run $50, and with the cosmos 2 you can only run 2 120.2 radiators internally a decent pair of those will run ~$140. Fittings will be anywhere from $2.50 a piece for barbs to $8.00 a piece for big compressions, and plan on about $2.00 a foot for tubing. Distilled water is only $.96 at walmart for a gallon though. Don't forget your biocide that's about $5.00 a bottle last I checked.

So you're probably looking at around $700 for a good custom loop.