i am currently working on building a very custom setup, i will (hopefully) end with an i7 980x on a gigabyte UD9 with 24gb corsiar ram kit, 3 gtx 580 in sli and a gtx 285 as physX (all with EK waterblocks, may have gone with aquacomp blocks but too late to change now) (will end up running 3 monitior 3Dvision surround setup)

anyways my questions are.

1. what more than 1 aquaero 5 and 2 aquastream xt pump ultras would i need to run /control 10-14 temp sensors, 8-10 water temp sensors, 2 flow meters, maybe 2 "tubemeters" and 16 120mm fans (hopefully all independently controllable)(or 3x3 linked (for 3 360rads) + 7 independent) **led connectors will be used for led connections**

2. how difficult would it be for me to setup software to recognize that there is 2 seperate independent water loops?

3. if i needed to run sensors from one case to the seperate water cooling case how would cutting wires of sensors and adding extra connectors ( possiblely extra wire length) effect readings? what other way could i achieve sending signals from sensors?

4. been trying to find description or pictures but can't, how does the poweradjust units connect to an aquaero?

thanks for the replies , has given me much to think on....

always assumed it was going to be expensive, my build is already around $AUS 7000 (5000 euro) and i still have to get at least another $AUS 2000 worth of parts, not including the aquacomputer components.


will keep the revised tubemeter in mind, but that was the least important component as the levels in my custom res' will be visible (as it is the centre piece of my entire build)

follow up questions

1. in regards to calibrating temp sensors, can i actually recalibrate them (ie adapt wires and then put wire adapted sensor right after (couple of cm away) a known and calibrated temp sensor (ie the aquastream pump ultra) and then "recalibrate" readings for adapted sensor based on "true" readings, or would i have to establish the individual variance on the adapted sensor and then just treat the data provided accordingly (ie allowing for the variance (showing the wrong readings but me knowing how they reflect "true" reading.)

2. could i possiblely use a lesser version of the aquaero 5 or even an earlier aquaero in the main case purely for reading temp sensors in that case, and all the data just end up in aquasuite, with the better version of aquaero 5 (with remote) still being used and connected from cooling case , running / controlling the pumps and fans on radiators possiblely using temp data from the lesser version aquaero (and yes i realise this will be even more expensive)

3. according to page 5 of the english pdf for the aquaero 5 in the "temperature sensors - digital, real, virtual or by software", it states, "altogether up to 40 temperature sensors can be used" how many of this 40 are real? (and just to double check, with an aquaero 5 connected to 2 aquatream xt ultra pumps, can i still connect up 6 poweradjusts, and if i can this would allow me 16 temp sensors wouldn't it)