is this kit a waste of money?

[pak]

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Retail-EVERCOOL-WC-202-VGA-CPU-Water-Cooling-Kit_W0QQitemZ280008526176QQihZ018QQcategoryZ80150Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

considering a WC kit, but i dont really wanna spend large amoutns of money on it.


--pak

[ziggo0]

As much as I hate kits, that one is one of the higher up kits. I can't give any real numbers but I heard it isnt 'that bad'.

[fireandice]

no. the kit has a weak pump and i ran a evercool wc-301 on a sempron and it cooled the cpu well but only running 1 rad and 1 block. the vga and the second rad will hurt proformance more since the pump is so weak save up a little more and go for atleast a thermaltake big water the one with the 400lr/hr pump or a swiftech kit. or buld your own kit. its cheaper some times and gives better proformance.

[Arca_ex]

Swiftech and DangerDen kits are the way to go, but building a custom watercooling kit for about $175 can outperform that so much that it makes me cry

[fireandice]

it will cool with only 1 rad since the punp is only 70l/hr with about a 2 inch head lol "its that weak" about 28c to 30c idfle with a 65watt cpu. sempron at 1.4ghz stock clock.

save your money or buy atleast a deacent tt big water kit. but if you get that much go swiftech but i had a tt kit and never had a problem with it and it was a great kit for me but outher report problems but i never had one with mine.

that kit really iseing worth the money. if you dont wanna spend more then just spend $50 get the WC-301 take it out of the case and mount it like as normal kit and the profromance will be about the same as the kit you pointed out and coust less.

[trigger_sad]

Just hang around the classified ads man, I just picked up a D5 pump, apogee block, and a black ice pro II for around $100 total shipped. So keep that in mind.

[rainless]

You can get this Danger Den kit http://www.dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=7&cat=2&page=1 for 52.95. edit: My mistake. That's the base price with nothing in it :)

But I have a TON of info on the WC-202 if you want it:

Here's how to mod it: http://www.3dxtreme.net/index.php?id=evercoolwc201mod2

Here's a review of it: http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/super_cooling/evercool/wc_202/

If you want pricing info for France I got that too :)

[rainless]

it will cool with only 1 rad since the punp is only 70l/hr with about a 2 inch head lol "its that weak" about 28c to 30c idfle with a 65watt cpu. sempron at 1.4ghz stock clock.

save your money or buy atleast a deacent tt big water kit. but if you get that much go swiftech but i had a tt kit and never had a problem with it and it was a great kit for me but outher report problems but i never had one with mine.

that kit really iseing worth the money. if you dont wanna spend more then just spend $50 get the WC-301 take it out of the case and mount it like as normal kit and the profromance will be about the same as the kit you pointed out and coust less.


Well you're still talking about the WC-301. You might as well say "Yeah don't get a Core 2 Duo. I had a Pentium 2 once..."

http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/super_cooling/evercool/wc_202/

Read that.

Personally I'll be picking up the WC-202 because you can't really build anything even CLOSE to that cheap. The WC-301 is like 2 or 3 years old, so of course it sucks. It'd be better to mod the WC-202. You can always change a part here and a part there later. Me I have this ridiculously loud X-blower fan buzzing in my ear that's driving me crazy. Take a look at that review and see EVERYTHING you get with that kit. Mounting blocks for a million different CPUs, the tubing, the this the that... Judging by the way it's set-up I don't think it would be difficult to add a pump later. And at that point you'll already have all the tubing and everything set-up and leak checked. It will only be a matter of changing the pump.