To Water cool or not to water cool...

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I recently bought a new desktop from scratch and I was hoping if I could get some suggestions on if I will need to water cool it or not. I plan to primarily use it for gaming. Also, I plan to overclock it somewhat so that the 2.4 will go to around 3.0 and maybe the video card too, not sure yet. Here are the specs to my PC:

-Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz
-680i SLI Motherboard
-Corsair XMS2 2 GB DDR 800 RAM
-Geforce 8800GTX Video Card
-OCZ GameXStream 700W Power Supply
-WD Raptor 74 GB 10,000 RPM Hard Drive
-Seagate 320 7,200 RPM Hard Drive
-X-Fi Fatal1ty Sound Card
-Samsung DVD Burner Drive
-Antec Nine Hundred Mid-Tower ATX case
-Thermaltake Blue Orb II CPU Cooler

So will I need to water cool it or will sufficient air cooling be enough?

 

[magicman]

This should have been posted in "Computer Cases, Power Supplies and Cooling", rather than here.

In answer to your question, it depends how much you are prepared to spend on your cooling setup. I'm of the opinion that good after market air cooling is as good as cheap water cooling setups, and a lot less tricky to set up. If you want the best of the best, and are prepared to risk the inherrent problems that water cooling can pose, then by all means. But water cooling isn't nessecary. Good air cooling would be sufficient.