Water Cooling

Impr3ssiv3

Impr3ssiv3

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i need some good cheapish water coold kits for a new pc im building


its a ATX, AMD 64 X2,Nforce4 soon to be computer
 
Cheap + Water Cooling = Bad idea || Dead computer.

How much can you spend on water cooling? And are you going to do any major overclocking?
 
You can't get a 'cheap' watercooling kit. It's common knowledge that you get what you pay for, so if you pay for a crappy water cooling kit, it's going to leak all over your computer and unless you have response times under 1ms, your computer will short and you'll lose everything.

water cooling is only for really serious overclockers. like 1.5ghz+
 
Impr3ssiv3 said:
well let me rephrase cheap

Inexpensive watercooling


i will probably overclock but not sure
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You have to be sure if you want to get watercooling. Water cooling is only usefull when you overclock alot. If your not sure your going to overclock, or if you are but only a little, than water cooling is a waist of money. Air cooling is efficient enough.

So only get water cooling either if:

1. You will do some extreme overcloking
2. You have lots of money to burn
3. You know the risks

If you fit one of those, the thermaltake Bigwater (linked by fade2green514 above) is propably a good one since thermaltake have a nice rep for excellent cooling products.
 
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computermaineack said:
You can't get a 'cheap' watercooling kit. It's common knowledge that you get what you pay for, so if you pay for a crappy water cooling kit, it's going to leak all over your computer and unless you have response times under 1ms, your computer will short and you'll lose everything.

water cooling is only for really serious overclockers. like 1.5ghz+
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tell me, who's overclocked 1.5ghz?
the most i've ever seen was i believe an opteron 2ghz (single core) to 3.44ghz... and that was with vapochill, not water.
the next most i've seen was an fx-55 from 2.6ghz to 3.75ghz... and even then its not a 1.5ghz o/c, and he was on vapochill as well.
also, you leak test it 24hours so that it doesnt leak all over your computer when you put it in.

personally, i can o/c my computer to 2.6ghz but i dont like the temps so im getting water cooling.
so in this case, water cooling was healthier for my computer :)
in other words, the bigger the risk, the better the outcome i guess... in this case.
 
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