Hi
To start with, we don't get heatercores/rads/pumps easily around these parts. Machining is primitive, and tools are expensive specially for high quality, imported tools.
Plus hardware is costly, a 6800 Ultra is nearly as much as my monthly pay. So, we've been on air only, and stock air most of the time. Thermaltake products are available at a little over the SRP prices in the US (a lot more than the actual street prices or newegg prices).
Plus I'm having a heat problem, the PC is heating up my room a lot. Then the case becomes hot, then the PC becomes hotter. By the end of it my CPU sits at about 60 degrees load, case temp 40 degrees and ambient about 33 degrees. Sweaty. On stock speeds/voltages, my air is actually doing well (load about 54 degrees, case temps around 38 degrees), but it can't handle the OC'ed CPU too well.
So I was considering watercooling to reduce the heat load inside the case and keep the CPU a little cooler, so the case and PS exhaust could focus on the rest of the PC.
But, we don't get custom parts. Even motorcycles sold here are air-cooled with smallish engines, so no rads from there. Cars have huge radiators, not useful. I could scrounge around and use a car fuel pump or an aquarium pump, but that would take a lot of time and money.
We get one watercooling kit here, the Thermaltake Big Water.
(ducks to avoid missiles)
TT products are really the only ones available. And not cheaply, really, the above kit is just north of $200. As far as air goes, TT are again the only ones available at all. Coolermaster may be available but not easily.
Is it worth it or should I stick with what I have and lump it? I live in a short-term rented apartment so I was not thinking of getting AC. A new AC is about $250-300. AC rental is all the rage ($10-$15/mo) but rental AC machines are like having a small car with its engine running parked in your living room.
To start with, we don't get heatercores/rads/pumps easily around these parts. Machining is primitive, and tools are expensive specially for high quality, imported tools.
Plus hardware is costly, a 6800 Ultra is nearly as much as my monthly pay. So, we've been on air only, and stock air most of the time. Thermaltake products are available at a little over the SRP prices in the US (a lot more than the actual street prices or newegg prices).
Plus I'm having a heat problem, the PC is heating up my room a lot. Then the case becomes hot, then the PC becomes hotter. By the end of it my CPU sits at about 60 degrees load, case temp 40 degrees and ambient about 33 degrees. Sweaty. On stock speeds/voltages, my air is actually doing well (load about 54 degrees, case temps around 38 degrees), but it can't handle the OC'ed CPU too well.
So I was considering watercooling to reduce the heat load inside the case and keep the CPU a little cooler, so the case and PS exhaust could focus on the rest of the PC.
But, we don't get custom parts. Even motorcycles sold here are air-cooled with smallish engines, so no rads from there. Cars have huge radiators, not useful. I could scrounge around and use a car fuel pump or an aquarium pump, but that would take a lot of time and money.
We get one watercooling kit here, the Thermaltake Big Water.
(ducks to avoid missiles)
TT products are really the only ones available. And not cheaply, really, the above kit is just north of $200. As far as air goes, TT are again the only ones available at all. Coolermaster may be available but not easily.
Is it worth it or should I stick with what I have and lump it? I live in a short-term rented apartment so I was not thinking of getting AC. A new AC is about $250-300. AC rental is all the rage ($10-$15/mo) but rental AC machines are like having a small car with its engine running parked in your living room.