Raven0215

Do you have to use ICUE for this or will it work without. Also if I don't use ICUE what features would I be losing out on

Thanks thought that might be the way to go but figured i would ask

any idea of this will be available in white?

Just another question. On the XD5 Pump/res combo it looks like I can plug in the pump PWN directly to the motherboard and control it that way if I wanted. What about the temperature sensor?, there is a plug on the motherboard for temperature sensors will it read that or will I have to buy the corsair units to see that. I don't really care about any of the lighting stuff so would prefer not to have to deal with ICUE.

Thanks that is good to know about the XD3 and the size along with the filling issues. Thinking of putting a Y adapter on the bottom radiator with a valve that will be hidden so it will be easy to drain when I need to. I think I will have the room for the XD5 so I may go that direction since there is no difference in cost really. I am half tempted to mount a 420mm rad up front 280mm on the roof and 140mm radiator on the back. I believe I would have the room and I sketched out running the tubes(soft tubing). Maybe a bit of overkill but the cost didn't really seem to increase much adding that extra Rad. Go big or go home I guess, lots of overkill but should allow me to run the fans fairly low to keep noise to a minimum.

So I have been looking into this a little more and am considering building a custom loop as I don't believe it would be that difficult. I am looking at installing a 280mm radiator up top and a 420mm radiator on the front of the case as I prefer the low sound of 140mm fans over 120mm fans. I'm debating between the XD3 or XD5 pump/reservoir. If I got the XD3 I could always mount it on the rear 140mm exhaust. The XD5 would need to be mounted on the front of the case behind the 420mm radiator. The Question I had about this is, I was thinking of including the Valved fitting at some point in the loop to make it easy to drain. I'm not sure the best point to put it. Maybe put the 420mm Radiator with the barbs in the bottom of the case and put the valved fitting on the output of that so it is always at the lowest point? Also I would plan to integrate this into a graphics card once some models with integrated water blocks come out.

Thanks all of your info was very helpful and really helped me to understand all this quite a bit better.

Ah I didn't even realize the system specs are still posted. I am probably not going to overclock much I have done it in the past and generally don't care for the headache that much. As far as what the build I am thinking of. It will be a Phanteks P500A case with a 420mm Radiator on the CPU mounted in the front an AMD 5900x and either and AMD or Nvidia GPU around the 3080 class, would probably wait for the 3080ti or look more at the AMD gpu. Currently Running a 980TI That case could fit a 280mm Radiator in the roof and a 140mm fan on the back. I prefer the 140mm Fans as they tend to really cut down on noise. I was thinking of running both Radiators as intake and running the rear 140mm as the only exhaust. I am interested in keeping noise down for sure and like the clean look of a water cooled system. I also think it would be kind of fun to get into the water cooling a little bit.

Hello, I've never water cooled before but have used AIO's for about 10 years or so and have really enjoyed the benefits of them(specifically Corsair Units). I am currently waiting for the Nvidia AMD Graphics cards to sort themselves out and will probably be picking up one flavor of those in the future not sure which yet. I saw that several manufacturers are coming out with versions that will have an AIO built in but also some with water blocks where you can build your own cooling for them. Since Corsair has the Hydro X now I figured well maybe I will look into that. I have been researching a lot and basically everything I have been seeing is whole systems where it is the CPU and graphics card etc in the Loop. Well I was thinking of just buying parts and water cooling one of the Graphics Cards that comes with the water block on it by itself since I already have an AIO on the CPU that I like. Lets just use the 3080 or 6800XT Cards as an example. Originally I was thinking a 140mm Radiator but I see a lot of the AIO graphics card manufactuers are using 240mm Rads so I have space for a 280mm Radiator in my case so figured I would just use that along with the XD3 Pump/Reservoir and whatever tubing fittings etc I need. I don't really care about RGB Effects to be honest and I am not sure if using the XD5 would be of any benefit. I believe I would have room for it in my case if needed. I Guess my main question is does this sound stupid, is it a waste of money, am I missing something? I would just like to get some opinions since my Water cooling knowledge is limited to only AIO at this point.

Hello, I have the titled power supply and it has worked well. I got it back in the day when the corsair link software was very bad and got so tired of messing with it I just unhooked the cable and stashed it away. I don't seem to be able to find it anymore and I was wondering if corsair sells replacements? I am building a new pc and wanted to mess around with icue as I think it says it is compatible.