Water Cooling Parts Recommendations

GearShift3r

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• Oct 21, 2005

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Hey guys,

After browing through the Water Cooling section for a few weeks, it's dawned on me that maybe it should be my next project. I've never done anything water-cooling related yet. I'm looking to do it around Christmas but I would like some recommendation on high and middle-end parts and some "do's and don'ts" of water-cooling.

All input would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!
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• Oct 21, 2005

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Do you want to put a block on your VC or chipset too? As for good parts this thread has good parts, but they are gonna be mostly high end too.

 

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Going along with what 5|*42 posted, please read these threads and then please feel free to post back with any questions you have.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=369636
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=356038

 

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I've been looking at the Black Ice Pro and the Thermochill, which one has better performance?

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well it depends personally just for the price factor I would stay away from the Thermochill unless its the PA160 in which case its recommended. Besides that the BIP series rads are for fans that move under 80CFM (each) while the BIX series rads are for fans that move over 80CFM (each). It all depends on what you want so please read what I linked in my first post.

 

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I'm looking to water-cool because air cooling just isn't cool enough for me. Money here is not the issue. I'm looking for the highest performance parts that are available.

 

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Ok since you want high performance the BIXIII is the rad for you. Besides that read the sticky linked to you by 5|*42 and take the top suggestions. Also what do you want to WC?

 

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I'm looking into cooling only my CPU(LGA775) for now, since I do not have a high-end graphic card that requires water-cooling. BIXIII would be the Black Ice Extreme 3? What's the difference between that and the Thermochill?

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ok so a BIXII would really be enough for that but a BIXIII would not cause harm. There is no real difference between the Thermochill and BIX rads except price.

 

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If money were not an issue, which one would you go with?

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GearShift3r said:

If money were not an issue, which one would you go with?

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BIXIII because if you have the fans (3x 120mm that move 80cfm each or more) its the best out there.

 

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What rersevoir is good out there? I'm looking for something external.
Oh, and some coolant!

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Last edited: Oct 22, 2005