First Water Kit Need Advice/Help!

[Tyreal]

Originally Posted by screwballl

nah it goes up to 12,000 rpm top speed.. but anything over 8000 is just too noisy... it is a Thermaltake Volcano of some sort

thats ok my next build will be using the giant Scythe Ninja+ RevB (aka SCNJ-1100P)...going to check temps (on E6300) to see if I need the 120mm fan on it or not...

Wow... The scythe is on sale for 39.99, thats a great price for a cooler like that. Do you know what they changed in this new revision.

[screwballl]

ok found more specs on it for your guys, it is this one: Newegg.com - Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 80mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler - Retail

for some reason the specs say 2000-5500rpm but every single fan monitor in my system (except Asus Probe2) all say up to 12,000 RPM at full speed...
The Asus Probe2 shows the speed at half of what speedfan and other programs do...

the new Scythe revision has updated clips for the AM2 and 775 sockets plus a better heatpipe setup for better heat transfer...
I wont have my build started until end of next week or so, I don't know for sure myself

[Tyreal]

Back when I was on socket A I was considering to buy either that TT Volcano or the Thermalright SI-97. The Volcano was way too loud for my tastes so I went for the SI-97 and an Ultra High speed 92mm Panaflo.

[Quakindude]

I'll be reviewing the Thermaltake Bigwater 745 in the coming two weeks. It's a kit that has been getting some fairly decent reviews by other sites. However, since I've only water-cooled one computer, and that was over 4 years ago, I'll be able to objectively rate this on the ease of use for the beginner water-cooling enthusiast, which these forums are geared towards anyway.

[Tyreal]

Cool. I look forward to the review.

Try and run the system for a prolonged period of time. I'm talking several months. Let me know if you experience any problems. Like leaks, stuff breaking, or anything like that. I don't have much experience with TT products but I've seen people complain about stuff the kits breaking on them.

[Quakindude]

Any thing in the kit that even remotely looks cheesy will be replaced prior to my using it long term. I'll do the review based on what they give the consumer, but if anything in it worries me, I know where the local hardware store is and I'm not afraid to use it!

[Tyreal]

Thats a good idea. You don't want to take any chances.

[Bigedmond]

I have ran a original TT big water system on my prescott for almost a year. I only cool the CPU, but i havent had 1 problem with it.

I actually just installed one of those system that you will be reviewing onto a friends computer. He said that he has had no problems, but he has no installed a temp monitoring program. Actually not sure which to use with the C2D.

[Quakindude]

I like using TAT for my temp monitoring.