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Originally Posted by 1life2live4
Guys
I would love to get some water cooling put on my system but am a little unsure about what I should get. Iv built a sweet system and would hate to put something that would harm it in.
MoBo - Asus camando
evga - 8800 GTS
Coseair - XMS 2G
Win XP Pro
Intel - core 2 extream 2.6
I was looking at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835128015
but I get the feeling that its cheep. do I need to put one together peace by peace. and if so could you guys give me some newegg links of some nice ones . Looking to spend about 300
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$300 bucks will get you cheap watercooling. You have to answer the following questions for yourself though:
How much do I want to overclock? You can overclock with large aftermarket air cooled heatsinks and keep things relatively safe for your components and relatively inexpensive
Can I afford to replace whatever a water spill might destroy? How fat is your wallet?
Do I want watercooling to quiet things down? If so, ou will need to spend more than $300 to do so. Because you will need waterblocks for your CPU, waterblocks for your graphics card(s) and any waterblocks for any noisy little fans on the motherboard. You may also need to replace your PSU with a quieter one and possibly more powerful one, because now you will also be hearing the PSU plus it will be powering your waterpump. $cha-ching$
Is "extreme" overclocking versus not so extreme overclocking worth the difference in price between watercooling and heavy duty air cooling? The difference can be significant depending on how much heat removal capacity you want.
Those are all things you need to consider first.