Koolance liquid water cooling, Core i7 980x, Radeon HD 5970

[jdcrispe95]

Dust vacuum :) 

[bradaussiebloke]

Must be really Noisy Anybody suggestion on a quiet water cooling kit please reply thanks.

[GamingForLife96]

@mak0t0san

got black ops or bc2 or something on steam or EA pm me and tell me plz ??

[SEO122]

Your Exos 2 appears blocked via furniture on the right side grille from pulling in more cooling air. Also, it doesn't look like there's a lot of room on top for the exhaust fans to do their thing. You could probably throttle back the Exos radiator fan speeds with better airflow to the unit. (Exos 2 owner here, water-cooling IBM 9228 Dual dual-core Xeon 5160 workstation)

[Zurginator]

I see you've got what looks like 6 DIMMs, and was wondering if you could give me the run down on your OC info. I have the same board/chip/6 DIMMs and am having fits.

Thanks.

[alexrevega]

bad case. bad wire management...

[mak0t0san]

@alexrevega Agreed. Eyeing the Corsair Obsidian 800D, but can't justify the cost simply for aesthetic reasons when my current case is functional.

[alexrevega]

@mak0t0san you can try cooler master HAF-X or simply one bigger case where the wire management would be better.

[cfcreative1]

I don't get why people who water cool use tons of fans. To me the whole purpose of water cooling is to have a near silent pc. My pc is almost silent with my water cooling setup. If I get a SSD drive it will be basically silent.

[mak0t0san]

@cfcreative1 To supplement the cooling. The heat fins on the motherboard look like they're designed to be cooled from the CPU fan... however, being watercooled, I'm supplementing that. Also, the 10K RPM Velociraptor hard drives, and WD Caviar Black hard drives tend to get warm so I'm also air cooling those.

[hansdegebruiker]

Do you chill your gpu & cpu with the koolance exos 2?

I'm building a x58 system with a 990X and looking for a powerful good looking water cooling system

Had my eye on the Zalman Reserator XT but this koolance is also very hot.

With do you think would be better?

[mak0t0san]

@hansdegebruiker Yes, I am currently just cooling my GPU and CPU. At one point, I was liquid cooling my hard drives and chipset, but then I realized that might have been a little too much.

Personally, I like the Koolance because of it's slim profile, which allows it to sit on top of my case. The Zalman looks nice, but also looks like it would take a lot more space. Also, Koolance makes some well built water blocks, although a bit pricey. They really feel like top quality products.