Water Cooling Suggestions?

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: PuffDaMagicSamus
If you're gonna go cheap on a watercooling kit you are wasting your money. You might as well get a good air cooler instead, because they can outperform cheap watercooling kits.

If you're gonna go WC you should not buy an already put together kit. You should order a pump, resevoir/t-line, radiator, and waterblocks seperately. You will save a little bit of money and you get much better results. I spent about $225 total on my setup and it works amazingly well.

Wrong:
http://www.petrastechshop.com/pecoel.html

Its a custom kit, but it pwns any thing you can probably piece together. However, the only upgrade on that kit would be a Thermochill PA120.2 or higher. That rad costs 100+ alone. It may cost a little bit more, but thanks to the owner ALEX, and his favorate employee QUOC, They composed a very well illustrated manual /w LOTS and LOTS of pictures. Definite must to a newbie who has never installed anything that has water.

Originally posted by: FireChicken
Just been reading this thread and I might be interesting in water cooling. My box sounds like a jet plane right now.

What are some good kits for beginner watercoolers that will cool cpu and vid card?
I'd be willing to spend $200-300

Internal would be best but external is fine also

Thanks

Read my link above. Much better then the swiftech Apex kit.

Just add a swiftech micro reservoir, if your new. Reservoirs are much more newbie friendly to work with. And bleeding is about 100x faster. NO JOKE.


Read my sticky linked at the bottom to get a raw idea of how it works. Then ask questions on things i missed. Or PM me.

 

[FireChicken]

Thanks for the link. I just discovered that petra tech is in san jose my home town. Wooohooo. Nice to not have to pay shipping for once. SVC is near by also.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: FireChicken
Thanks for the link. I just discovered that petra tech is in san jose my home town. Wooohooo. Nice to not have to pay shipping for once. SVC is near by also.

when you go pick up. Say hello to the people there.

Alex = owner
Qouc = VIP employee

ASK FOR A FREE PEN!!


They are seriously the best. If you have time, sit with them and talk to them. If you have questions, ASK THEM There. They LOVE and i mean seriously LOVE helping people out. EVery time i call them, i get stuck on the phone talking to quoc for 15 min. There great guys. i highly recomend them A+++


Tell them your a noob to watercooling when you pick up, and tell them neh kuh < naekuh> from xs forums recomended you to them.

Blah enough glorifying petras tho. :T

 

[PuffDaMagicSamus]

First of all, you said it your self. That is a custom kit put together. Yes that kit is very good but the pump on that is not the greatest. Considering the setup I have outperforms that kit and I spent less on it pretty much backs up what I was saying. Not to mention my main point was that if you're gonna go cheap you shouldn't go water. That kit is $250 so it's far from cheap.