To watercool or not?

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So, my birthday is coming up (one month away :D) and I feel like I've bought enough new hardware for one year, my with the top part of my desk partially blocking both of my rear fans, my system gets loud and toasty after a short while, which in turn heats up my room.

So I feel I need some better cooling, but air cooling is getting boring. I want to try watercooling but I have no idea where to start. I'm reading the watercooling sticky now.

If I do go watercooling it will only be for the CPU, I'm not expecting a whole lot of money, and I've seen how expensive components can be.

So is it worth switching over to watercooling? How much maintenance do they require? Is there anything I should know that isn't in the sticky? Can anything catastrophically fail and ruin my system? Would it be better just to get something like a H50/H70 or a better air cooler?

Thanks guys.
 
It's not worth going to water cooling if you're on a low budget. Those all in one coolers have been shown to underperform compared to high end coolers. Unless you're ready to drop a good chunk of money on assembling your own loop, I would just stick to air cooling.
 
I have a couple of WC setpus. One on a PC that just has the CPU cooled. I put a 120mmx2 rad on it with a reservoir built in and 1 pump and a cpu block. cost about 60 for the WB 60 for the RAD and 60 for the pump and 10 dollars for tubing. and 10 dollars for 2 fans. So you are looking around 200 CDN dollars. Or you can get a really good air cooler for for a quarter of the price. Also, I had no idea what I was doing when I first started, but it really is not rocket science. You could figure it out no problem, filling the loop takes a bit to figure out how to get all the air pockets out when it gets stuck but besides that it's pretty darn easy.

Also, I had bought one of those self contained water units before. They are not very good at all, a really good air cooler is better than those water coolers.
 
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Leopold Butters said:
I have a couple of WC setpus. One on a PC that just has the CPU cooled. I put a 120mmx2 rad on it with a reservoir built in and 1 pump and a cpu block. cost about 60 for the WB 60 for the RAD and 60 for the pump and 10 dollars for tubing. and 10 dollars for 2 fans. So you are looking around 200 CDN dollars. Or you can get a really good air cooler for for a quarter of the price. Also, I had no idea what I was doing when I first started, but it really is not rocket science. You could figure it out no problem, filling the loop takes a bit to figure out how to get all the air pockets out when it gets stuck but besides that it's pretty darn easy.

Also, I had bought one of those self contained water units before. They are not very good at all, a really good air cooler is better than those water coolers.
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Agreed, I would take the Thermaltake Frio over one of those cheap Corsair water-coolers any day.
 
I guess you've convinced me into getting a better air cooler. Altough yestersay i remounted my cooler vertically so the fan isn't sucking in warm air from my GPU anymore, temps have gone down a bit.
 
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