New to water cooling, can you need

[cfuk]

Hi all, i'm starting work on my PC which could take up to three months as i'm saving up the cash for the mods i want. I was thinking about turning to water cooling, as i want a XP 3200+. I was wondering which is the best way to go about starting as i have never used water cooling before. Which would be a good rig for cooling the CPU and which is easy to setup.

Thanks :)

[Contra]

this is a nice setup
i have it just decided to also get a VGA block


http://www.dtekcustoms.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=102&HS=1

[Voodoo Rufus]

Welcome to the Forums.

That Dtek kit is pretty nice, and here's some info that should prove helpful:
http://www.ocforums.com/vb/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=229013

[cfuk]

are any of these any good:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Water_Cooling.html

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/Products.ASP?CatID=10&Category=Coolers

It's real hard to find the one you said as i live in the UK :(

[Voodoo Rufus]

Yeah, those kits are alright. Should do fine.

[cfuk]

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/aquarius/a1604.htm - £69

or

http://productsen.terratec.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=188&menu=1702 - £176

The Thermaltake one looks good to me but i don't know anything about water cooling so which would you pick :)

[Voodoo Rufus]

I would stay away from the TT one. You'd be better off with an air cooled system than that thing.

[cfuk]

is the Terratec one ok?

[trdsw20]

If your gonna go the road for WC maybe you should reduce the 3200 to something else cheaper. In the states you could save about 100$ bucks if you go for the 2500 barton instead. That way you have cash for either better RAM or for WC products. You can also try to hit 3200 performance with the 2500.

Also DTEK does ship international and they can save you 10% of your order right now.

[cfuk]

i don't really need rram as i have x2 512mb Corsair XMS DDR 400MHz PC3200 :), can you overclock a Barton XP2800+ as i hear that AMD had locked them

[pauldenton]

Originally posted by cfuk
i don't really need rram as i have x2 512mb Corsair XMS DDR 400MHz PC3200 :), can you overclock a Barton XP2800+ as i hear that AMD had locked them

if you're going to overclock a locked barton you want a 2500+ - that's because it has the same multiplier as a 3200+ (11) whereas the 2800+ has 12.5 - so you'd end up with a lower FSB...

[cfuk]

how fair could you take a XP2500?

[Voodoo Rufus]

http://www.cpudatabase.com/CPUdb/

Pick your CPU there. Average OC is about 2.3GHz. Not bad....

[trdsw20]

check this page out
http://www.cpudatabase.com/CPUdb/Showamd.cfm
gives you the speeds achieved by others and which motherboards they used. Ill tell you right now my experience with the NF7s and the a7n8x are definately pointing and advising you toward either of the 2. especially the nf7s rev 2.

[Voodoo Rufus]

Trd your link doesn't work because you don't have a CPU selected to show. My link just brings up the regular menu for the database.

[cfuk]

it says Intel chips :(

[trdsw20]

the selection for AMD chips is right underneath that
and your looking for the barton 2500 they receive some decent to exceptional overclocks. In my opinion AMD is a great band for the buck chip and theres no sense in spend 230 on a chip. if