any liquid cooling kits?

just a noob

just a noob

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im looking for liquid cooling kits for an upcoming build possibly. if im going to cool a graphics card how do i go about that, should i just buy one that comes with the liquid cooling attached? should i buy something and put that on myself?
 
well, alot of that depends of your system.

how much money your willing to spend.

how much space you have in your case (even if you want an internal system).

what do you want to cool? just your GPU and CPU?

check out places like xoxide, forzen cpu, and new egg to look at some items, like complete kits or peice by peice purchases.
 
LCS/drummer said:
well, alot of that depends of your system.

how much money your willing to spend.

how much space you have in your case (even if you want an internal system).

what do you want to cool? just your GPU and CPU?

check out places like xoxide, forzen cpu, and new egg to look at some items, like complete kits or peice by peice purchases.
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xoxide and frozen cpu are quite expensive

go to petra's shop

like LCS said, budget, space and what you're going to cool are all needed for us to help you.
 
depends if its going to be internal it gunna probably be stuffed into a 5.25 inch bay or whatever they are looking for both cpu gpu intel 775 set $500 or below would be decent, edit: what else could i cool?
 
just a noob said:
what else could i cool?
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haha......it starts. welcome to the club! lol

RAM, northbridge, southbridge, voltage regulator, hard drive, psychics card, VGA RAM (only certain models are available for that), multiple GPU's.... yea, its pretty insane, but CPU and GPU are the most popular.

$500.....well thats pretty good, not a bad setup can be bought for that money, but for that money i think it would be kind of a waste to put the system in a 5 1/4 bay IMO, because of accessibility issues but thats just my opinion.

so if it wasn't a bay-system, what space are we looking at? full tower? mid tower? laptop? hehe JP

ill shop around though.
 
umm is antec nine hundred full tower? what kind of a pump? im thinking hardware labs for the radiator probably happen towards the beginning of '09 because i somehow accumulated almost 1000 dollars in a 3 months strech between my birthday and christmas edit: whats a good hard drive cooler? i dont feel like water cooling my ram, id probably break a stick of ram if i tried taking the heat sink off. what exactly does a physics card do? whats a good block for the north bridge on the 780i? thats a lot of questions lol
 
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just a noob said:
umm is antec nine hundred full tower? what kind of a pump? im thinking hardware labs for the radiator probably happen towards the beginning of '09 because i somehow accumulated almost 1000 dollars in a 3 months strech between my birthday and christmas edit: whats a good hard drive cooler? i dont feel like water cooling my ram, id probably break a stick of ram if i tried taking the heat sink off. what exactly does a physics card do? whats a good block for the north bridge on the 780i? thats a lot of questions lol
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1. No it isn't
2. D5
3. Water or air for the HDD cooling
4. Don't get a physics card, only 2-3 games can use it
5. ??? I'd have to look
 
The_Beast is correct, theres really no point in watercooling the hard drive, or even the chipset on most motherboards. As long as you still have fans in your case, that will be plenty to cool the hard drive and RAM. Having blocks for those components in your setup will reduce the flow because of the longer tubing and increased restriction of all the additional waterblocks, not to mention it will raise the temperature of the CPU and/or video card because the liquid is cooling other components as well.
 
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The_Beast is correct, theres really no point in watercooling the hard drive, or even the chipset on most motherboards. As long as you still have fans in your case, that will be plenty to cool the hard drive and RAM. Having blocks for those components in your setup will reduce the flow because of the longer tubing and increased restriction of all the additional waterblocks, not to mention it will raise the temperature of the CPU and/or video card because the liquid is cooling other components as well.
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Ohh I forgot about the ram

water cooling the ram is also useless in most peoples eyes, again like the HDD WC it is just another restriction and doesn't really do much for the system

Any other question, I'll be glad to answer them :)
 
if you're thinking of just getting a full prebuilt kit, then i would just get some nice air cooling instead. if you actually want good water cooled system, then you should always build a custom one to fit the comp's needs. water cooling your HD and all the memory sticks is a waste. there aren't many selection for those blocks and it just adds more restrictions to your loop.
 
here's a setup i'll have in mine, and you modify and change out any of the parts you don't want:


pump- liang ddc2 with petra top
rad- PA120.2
res- EK-RES150
cpu- fuzion
gpu- MCW60
NB- MCW30
tubes- 7/16"
fans- 4x yate loons push/pull
 
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