Sorry for the lengthy post!!!
Hello all,
For a little while now I've been looking into water cooling.... I'm willing to spend into the $200-$250 range and would like your recommendations on what to get. I've never setup water cooling before, but I don't want to fork over approx $200 for an Koolance or Corsair cooler when I can customize and get better performance for roughly the same price. I want to cool my CPU and mobo chipset. I get around 43C CPU (Thermalright SLK800U) and 35C chipset IDLE on a COOL DAY. Hot days scare me now...
I really like the DangerDen stuff and heres what i'm lookin at:
Danger Den Maze 4 or Dtek TC-4... seemed pretty equal from what I've heard?
Z-Chipset waterblock
BayRes
Hydor L30
For radiator I don't really know... is the Black ICE Extreme good? The Extreme 2 looks pretty big and I don't know where I'd put it in my case... I've also looked at DTek Pro Radiator, (was recommonded to someone on forums)
Any info/advice is greatly appreciated, oh, and I have a Chenming 601 case, aka Antec1080 i think. I'd like to fit everything into it without much modding if possible.
System Specs:
Barton 2500+ @ 2.2Ghz (11x200)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe2.0
2x 512 Mushkin HighPerf RAM
Ati Radeon 9500Pro (360/290)
Leadtek TV Tuner
Onboard Sound/NIC
550W Antec TruPower PS
120GB WD1200JB HD (storage)
2x 36GB WD Raptor HDs RAID 0 (system)
Plextor 48x CDRW
Sony DRU510A DVDRW
Hello all,
For a little while now I've been looking into water cooling.... I'm willing to spend into the $200-$250 range and would like your recommendations on what to get. I've never setup water cooling before, but I don't want to fork over approx $200 for an Koolance or Corsair cooler when I can customize and get better performance for roughly the same price. I want to cool my CPU and mobo chipset. I get around 43C CPU (Thermalright SLK800U) and 35C chipset IDLE on a COOL DAY. Hot days scare me now...
I really like the DangerDen stuff and heres what i'm lookin at:
Danger Den Maze 4 or Dtek TC-4... seemed pretty equal from what I've heard?
Z-Chipset waterblock
BayRes
Hydor L30
For radiator I don't really know... is the Black ICE Extreme good? The Extreme 2 looks pretty big and I don't know where I'd put it in my case... I've also looked at DTek Pro Radiator, (was recommonded to someone on forums)
Any info/advice is greatly appreciated, oh, and I have a Chenming 601 case, aka Antec1080 i think. I'd like to fit everything into it without much modding if possible.
System Specs:
Barton 2500+ @ 2.2Ghz (11x200)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe2.0
2x 512 Mushkin HighPerf RAM
Ati Radeon 9500Pro (360/290)
Leadtek TV Tuner
Onboard Sound/NIC
550W Antec TruPower PS
120GB WD1200JB HD (storage)
2x 36GB WD Raptor HDs RAID 0 (system)
Plextor 48x CDRW
Sony DRU510A DVDRW
