watercooling question

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efx2003

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Does anybody know of a good watercooling kit that is pretty much plug n play. Please help if you can.

Thank You
 
Watercooling is a waste of money. You can get air cooling that is just as good. I would highly suggest you not go to water cooling
 
Actually Gopher, Water Cooling kits are drip free, and have built in systems that stop anything going wrong.

As for water cooling:

If you send £200 ($450) or less on a water cooling kit, you'll get reasonable cooling (however they are very noisy these kits due to still needing fans).

If you spend £200-£350 ($450-$600) you'll get a nice water cooling kit, that's very quiet, and provides good cooling :)

Now, my opinion is that Water Cooling isn't worth it, unless you intend on spending on a high end water cooling kit, your not going to be getting good cooling for your money.

If you spent $500 on a good water cooling kit, you could get the same cooling on Air, with $50 :) (however that would be VERY loud cheap fans).

However, if you spent $100 on air cooling / acoustic matting / silent hard drive casing you could get an almost SILENT PC, for ALOT less - with equal cooling (perhaps 2-4C CPU temperature difference).
 
From what I've read, the Koolance Exos is probably the way to go. The only downside to it is that you have to purchase the waterblocks separately from the system. That's probably the best external watercooling system from the reviews I've read.
 
Dx/Dy X~0 X=Temp Gradient, X=DeltaW*T. W=density of water. Should solve your problem. Please mail me if this information is useful
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I used watercooling on my old athlon xp 2800+, it was pretty good cooling, but you could probably reach the same temperatures with air cooling. even though it was a decent setup, it sure "wow"'d everyone that saw my pc :)
 
Yeah. Just because it's a watercooling system doesn't mean it's going to trump aircooling. If there's not enough waterflow or poor heat disappation with the system, you're not going to be getting very good results.
 
For the same or less amount of money than a high end water kit you can make a water/ refridgerator combo. Get a cheap assed water kit and a small but good refrigerator. Now drill 2 holes in the fridge and run the plumbing. Take out the radiator and put the 2 ends back together with tube connectors (not the right name but I can't figure out the real :swear: name). Make a new reservior out of something large, but small enough to fit in the fridge. Set the temp to the minimum and away you go. Wait for the water to chill and start the pump.
NOTE: you can expect to be getting a new fridge after a few years but its all in the name of cooling.
 
when you use antifreeze in a liquid cooled sytem 50%water 50%antifreeze,
you would want to have a cooling device for your liquid resevoir.
keeping the liquid at a temperature of -30 degrees is very good because the antifreeze can handle that temp.

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ninja fetus said:
Watercooling is a waste of money. You can get air cooling that is just as good. I would highly suggest you not go to water cooling
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Watercooling is no longer the way to go. Thermoelectric systems are much better. Only problem I see with them is condensation. To everybody saying that water + electronics = bad; they sell non-conductive liquid coolants for that exact reason.
 
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