[Solved] XSPC Rasa dual rad single loop a good idea?

I know there are quite a few threads about novices to water cooling asking these types of questions but mine is a little more specific so I thought I'd start my own.

I am looking to water cool my rig and I was wondering if the budget setup I'm looking at is adequate for what I want to do.

I am running a i5 2500K and an HD 6970 reference in a Cooler Master Haf X Case.

What I want to do is run a dual radiator single loop setup with the XSPC Rasa 240 kit and then an additional 140mm rad (Loop would run res-pump-240 rad(mounted on top)-cpu-140 rad(mounted on back)-gpu-res) with the CPU OC'd to around 5ghz.

I want to go with the 240mm rad instead of the 360 because for the 360 to fit I believe I would have to leave the top 5.25'' bay open and I am planning to have all my bays filled (Fan controller, DVD Drive, Dual Bay Res/Pump Combo, the the two hot swap bays), but if the 360 would cool a significant amount more I could forgo the fan controller.

My questions are as follows:
Would the pump that comes with the combo be sufficient to run a decent flow through this loop?
If so would I be able to add another 6970 in the future and still get a decent flow?
Should I go with the 360mm rad instead of the 240mm? (The 240mm rad would have 2 120mm fans pushing through it and then 2 200mm fans pulling.)

Thanks in advance for the response and I know this horse is being beaten to death but I want to get as much information as possible before starting on this project,

If you are truly looking at at CPU + dual GPU loop right now, you might want to consider just building a custom loop and skipping a Rasa kit altogether.

What is your budget for watercooling? This might help determine the best route to go.

My new brackets for 560 Ti were only $5.99 each, I think. Hole pattern for 460/560 must be different than that for 580 since there are different brackets depending on which card you have.

The brackets are a piece of cake to interchange- 4 allen screws is all it takes to swap the brackets and they come with new mount hardware.

You could do it with a single radiator, it really depends on your overclocking plans and the radiator and fans being used. At stock speeds it's very doable. Even if you overclock, your delta will suffer, but it would be better than normal air cooling on GPUs.

I'd say probably not without an additional rad. I'm not exactly sure why people think the extra few hundred mhz gives them at the expense of faster chip degradation and very minimal differences in real-life tasks.

I switched from a 2500K to an i3-2120 and it plays all of my games the same as my 2500K. I need a second GPU to really push my system any further.

That said the guy that I traded my 2500K to got it to 4.4 GHz on 0.1V over stock, so you could be able to get a large frequency jump with marginal added heat.

Really the weakest part of the kits is the pump. If XSPC sold Rasa/Raystorm + RX block/rad combos, I'd be all over them the next time I build. Although it chugs along, you always worry about that pump...

I'm wondering if they are simply piecing out the pump to resell as a stand-alone to offer the kit as an upgraded package deal with an agreement with XSPC.

That's ~$150 more than the Rasa RX240 kit, although you do get a better pump, fittings, and some custom aesthetics that are somewhat of a time-consumer to do yourself.

A kit like that is a direct competitor with Swiftech Ultima kits.

And for the record, Moto's signature line came from one of my responses...I gave him full permission to adopt and use as he saw fit.

Yeah, I don't really care...he and I just joke about who 'owns' them.

Most Swiftech kits are pretty good. The only place they might lack is that they use common Swiftech MCR rads which are decent performing, but compare to XSPC RS rads.

I have the HAF X.

When I was researching watercooling, I found this post about conflicts introduced by the size of XSPC's RX rads:

http://www.overclock.net/t/910545/ [...] ts-of-pics

Because I was worried about the mobo's heatsinks interfering with the rad fans, I went with the EX360.

On that note, the rad does occupy plenty of space of the first drive bay. I use the Scythe Kaza Master Pro fan controller and I could probably make it work in the first drive bay but I wouldn't.

On choosing between a kit or custom loop, I'd also suggest a custom loop. I was very much in the same position as you (didn't want to buy things that'll be suffice for now and then look to upgrade later) - went with the MCP655.

^ apart from having to choose between amd/intel mounting bracket, that entire deal on Frozen cpu is kick@$$!

better idea - have a build log , i'll get the RX240+D5 kit as well...but not now

would want to see how this turns out - keep us posted!