need Help!!! about Water Cooling

[halutzparilla]

i'm starting to save money on my undecided rig, and one of my big question mark is the liquid water cooling...

which one to take:

Evercool Silver Knight

Swiftech H2-220

KINGWIN Aquastar AS-3000

Titan NIKITA TWC-A04

Thermaltake CL-W0075

Thermaltake Bigwater 745

VANTEC STG-100

CORSAIR Nautilus 500

[Capper]

I've used the Swiftech kit, and wasn't too impressed...its an extremely hard to work with kit with horrible instruction. The Big Water is a terrible kit, performance-wise. I liked the Nautilus 500 for its easy set up and quiet performance, but I've honestly seen almost as good performance out of high end air cooled solutions like the CNPS9500 and Thermalright coolers...the others I've never really used.
I personally think that a good air cooled solution is all anyone needs. The energy efficiency of these new processors really makes water uneccessary...IMO.
I think that a well thought out system with current current components, all air cooled is all you need.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Capper

I personally think that a good air cooled solution is all anyone needs. The energy efficiency of these new processors really makes water uneccessary...IMO.
I think that a well thought out system with current current components, all air cooled is all you need.

I beg to differ, at least a bit. The noise generated sometime is unbearable, but "kits" aren't the best thing to buy. You're better off buying parts there and there from a few companies than buying a premade kit by only one company.

[halutzparilla]

hmmmmp....
i wonder...

if water cooling will be giving me trouble with the installation and possibility of leakage and damage to the cpu and MoBo, i might reconsider big typhoon from thermaltake...

btw the way i saw reviews of hybrid evercool silver knight, i'm not to impressed...

its big and gigantic puts big stress on MoBo, unlike big typhoon, its a bit unstable grip on the back of the MoBo... i saw my friend with it...

[Capper]

by, kit I was speaking generic. Go back through this thread and I recommend against most kits. I highly recommend parts from both PolarFLO and Danger Den.....
However, I stand by my contention that no one, save the guys wanting to push their systems to the very limit, needs a $250-300 water cooling kit...the scaling in performance to cost just isn't worth it in my opinion. Grab a good cooler from Scythe, Thermalright, or Thermaltake (The Big Typhoon is a great Cooler) and I think you'll be very happy

[Lead Head]

If your going conroe a big typhoon cooler will be all you need to hit 3+ GHz easy.

If you start cranking the volts (1.5+) you will need water cooling

the Big Typhoon is good enough for the whole range of A64s unless you crank the volts easy

[Capper]

If you are an extreme overclocker just looking for great benchmarking scores...water is the way to go. If you are looking for a stable and safe 24/7 OC that boosts your performance (Like, say, if you bought an E6400 to save money,, but wanted E6600 performance)....LH is exactly correct...go with the Thermaltake Big Typhoon, the Zalman CNPS9500, or anything from Thermalright

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Capper

I highly recommend parts from both PolarFLO and Danger Den.....

What do you think about Swiftech, Koolance, AquaComputer, or Alphacool?

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

What do you think about Swiftech, Koolance, AquaComputer, or Alphacool?

Swiftech is very good (water blocks), not sure about the others

[Capper]

Swiftech blocks are good....to be honest with you I see little difference in performance between them and other high end blocks. Swiftech kits are decent, but as I said hard to work with.
Koolance is eh....expensive...the EXOS-2 is a great kit, but not worth the price. The other two I have no experience with.
I honestly don't use water, except for the test bench.