Having seen a lot of instances where people were using all in one water coolers to cool a GPU by the use of custom mounting brackets, or even zip ties in a few situations, I thought it would be a cool idea to mount the Seidon 240M on a card. I opted to mount it on my dead 8800GT, purely for demonstration purposes. Unfortunately this meant I couldn’t test for the temperatures, however I’ll do that on my GTX 580 next time.
“What fans should I use?”, a very common question when water cooling. Even with a full out custom loop, it’s still a huge question in the minds of many. I know personally I was at a loss as to which fans I should use when I first stepped into the realm of custom water cooling. In some cases, it depends on what is the most important to the system builder, or the client of a custom computer with water cooling. So the first question that I have is: what is the most important? Looks? CFM(Cubic Feet per Minute)? Static Pressure(SP)? Loudness?
The Seidon 240M can fit onto pretty much anything, including all current and semi recent AMD and Intel sockets. One of the supported sockets is LGA 2011, used by the Sandy Bridge-E platform. Recently I RMA’d my lovely X58 Classified 4 Way SLI, and I got an X79 Classified back from doing so. Unfortunately, this meant I had to get a new CPU as well. So, I went out to my local TigerDirect store and hand picked a 3820 from 5 different batches.
Joining the numerous all in one watercooling options on the market today, Cooler Master designed the Seidon 240M to join that line up as Cooler Master’s best option. The Seidon 120M and the Seidon 120XL both use a single radiator for 120mm fans, as the name would suggest. The 120M uses a somewhat slimmer radiator than the XL however. On the other hand, the Seidon 240M uses a 240mm radiator, giving it additional cooling performance over the other two.
I know that the HAF-XB isn’t really a case one would choose for absurdly good cable management abilities, but it’s not bad considering the rather open design of the whole case. I didn’t really have any issues running cables for a fairly typical system. I think that the end result actually looked pretty good, and it left me with plenty of room to run additional cables for adding parts. Such as if I was to add more video cards for SLI. Now, if only I had some Titan’s to show that off… (Hint, hint.). But, since I’m not that lucky, I have to make do with what I have on hand. Today, that’s an XFX 9800GX2, Gigabyte X58A-OC, and an ES Xeon CPU of mine that is an extra.
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