Hello,

I'm planning to do a water cooled build including the line of EK products, specifically the EK-XRES 140 DDC 3.2 PWM Elite pump (details here) and an Aquareo 6 controller. After scanning the forums I've been led to believe that the pump can be controlled via the pwm fan headers on the Aquaero unit. Is this assumption true? Apart from this setup I plan on including a flow meter, a tube temperature sensor and some case temperature sensors. The Aquaero unit should also control the fans of the radiator (4 pcs) and case fans (4pcs). Is there something I should consider other than making sure the total number of W per channel for the fans does not exceed the 30W limit?

Any help will surely be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Thank you Bartdude, that's very helpful! Any other advice on the setup, some issues perhaps that you might have encountered? And just out of curiosity, on what case did you do the install?

I see, that's a good overview on the system, I completely forgot about extending the USB for all the sensors, thanks for bringing that up. I'm planning to have it installed on a Thermaltake The Tower 900 case but because they don't offer install support for something other than their products I'll need to figure out the mounting options. Worst case scenario is to drill some holes at the bottom to make a mount...something similar to http://www.overclock.net/t/1621450/build…tower-900-asus8. The other way of setting things up (which actually I've come up after posting my question) is to use an aquastream pump, then have a separate reservoir which is more at the back of the case (depending on how you orient the pump) and then a flowsensor on the tubing. For rads and fittings I was still thinking of using the EK ones. This will look something like http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/attach…0304_213904.jpg . (Full thread: http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/wakue-…4790k-vega.html) In the end both of them require some adjustments to be made to the case in order to fit them, but the aquastream might take precedence because of possibly better integration at the expense of well...higher price than the EK option.

Thanks for the insight on the DDC and D5 pumps, I'll follow that advice.