Koolance or DangerDen

Hey,
I've decided to go with W/C for my new system. I was looking for a WC system and I came across the Koolance PC2-650BK. As you can see it comes with everything (liquid, extra tubing, etc) except the blocks. The reason why I chose this was for the price and what you get out of it. Me being not one rolling in cash, I needed something like this.

My question to you is: Which blocks should I go with? The Koolance CPU-300-H06 WB and the DangerDen TDX Athlon 64 WB are around the same price. What I want is more performance for my money. If I get the Koolance, I will need to buy an adaptor for my A64 CPU for it to fit on (more money). If I go with the TDX I won't have to.

Thanks in advance,
Swatdog

Go to criticool and assemble a real kit. Koolance is like a kia cheap and cheap.


CPU Block RBX AMD Lucite top $ 41.00
GPU Block Maze4 Black $ 38.00
Fans Sunon Fan x2 $ 16.00
Pumps Eheim 1250 $ 58.00
7ft 1/2" tube $10
10 hose clamps $4.00
T $1
autozone 2-342 heater core $ 26.00

$194 and you have a "mercedes" for CPU and graphics card.

One of the reasons I wanted that was because of the case as well...

Thanks for your suggestions though man, much appreciated.

The case is like any antec/chieftec SX1040
just get the same case (which will easily house a rad or Core), and go with the High performance setup from Dangerden!!

Here's your case
http://www.xoxide.com/chenming6022.html

http://www.xoxide.com/chieftec.html

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewprodu...ption=11-125-438&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&ATT=Cases

http://www.directron.com/mx01bld.html

http://www.directron.com/dragon3.html

But I'm sure you can find better prices...

Swatdog, several months ago, I was going to get the same case since I wanted to go into wc. I spent time here reading, learning and finally decided on a DIY system instead. I'm quite happy with my decision and my system has great performance as well as significant reduction of noise.

If you do get the koolance I recommend this block..only $40 and good.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=371010

Here's a good place to buy koolance
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=361791

Nothing actually wrong with the Koolance that I know of, its just that most of us here stress the PERFORMANCE part of water cooling in one way or another.

Performance being measured ultimately in one of two ways:
Silence
Low temps.

Koolance products fall short in either of those categories when compared to doing it yourself.
I won't necessarily say that they fall FAR short- but for the money you can definitely get a quieter system and/or lower temps.

On the other hand- Koolance stuff does make it easy to water cool- you get a fancy, pre-modded case, adequate but not stellar cooling and a system that is anywhere from pretty quiet (low settings) to mildly noisy (high settings.)

I do have a Koolance Exos that I bought used, although I don't have a Koolance case....
The Exos does the job, but out of 5 water cooled systems I have, it is definitely the lowest performance system.

well said rogerdugans