I am planning on building a new rig for myself in the next 6 months or so and I was wondering if I could get some input regarding the cost/performance of water cooling an overclocked system with decent components in comparison to an air cooled system, costing the same but with slightly higher end components (mainly GPU/CPU) I plan to spend around $1,800 total for my system. (not including the monitor, keyboard, mouse, OS..) Before I bother to do a bunch of research regarding benchmark tests of water cooled OC'd PC's and their stock air cooled counterparts, I was wondering if I could please get some advice before I start looking. Basically I'm willing to put in the time to learn how to and actually construct a loop if it ends up that I can get similar performance on a water cooled system than a comparably priced air cooled one since I'd then have all the water cooling parts necessary to just upgrade my PC components when I feel it necessary. I guess you could say that I'm looking to save some money down the road if I can because I do eventually want to go to water cooling, just not sure if it's the right time yet.
Thanks!
th3wood
Thanks!
th3wood
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