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Getting a water cooling system

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I decided recently to make the switch to water cooling as my PC is a screetching demon with about 10 fans in it and I'm looking to cut down on fans and also to get much better OCs. I've done a little research and I think I am going with a Koolance exos for ease of installation with good peformance to get me accustomed to water cooling.

I plan on cooling just my CPU and video card unless they have blocks for the MSI K8N Neo2 chipset. I'm also considering water cooling my hard drive, is it worth the investment?

I am going to run through the parts I plan on getting, let me know if I am missing anything:

Koolance Exos system
Koolance CPU-300-H06 (CPU)
Koolance VID-NV2-L06 (Vid)
Koolance AMD 64 Adapter

Does the Exos come with tubing and the appropiate adapters I need for CPU and Vid card cooling?

EDIT: It seems that Koolance is coming out with the Exos 2 with 10mm tubing, I think I might wait for that...
 
Yeah it comes with everything you need. Except it comes with crappy tubing. The clear stuff is way too flexible and kinks real easy. The blue stuff it comes with is really oooogly. My recomendation is waiting for the EXOS 2 is a waste of time.

From what ive seen on the new larger diameter systems koolance is putting out. The radiator is a modified 1/8" rad. Same as the old one but with larger fitting brazed on. I was not able to compare the pumps from the old system as opposed to the new but the old pumps are about the size of your thumb. Yes you read me right. Tiny. If they are using these pumps on the larger diameter systems watch out because they wont put out anywhere near the flow needed to make it effective. The current systems work very good and are very reliable. You really cant compare it with other brands that are more DIY but you pay for what you get.
 
Thanks, I guess I'll go with the current gen Koolance Exos.

Is there a difference between the black Exos and aluminum Exos? The Al model seems to be $30-50 more.

Also once I get my GPU and CPU water cooled would it be possible to run a fanless setup and still get very high overclocks?
 
I'm runnin just the cpu cooler. I was hoping to get better results then my delta, but...
It is real easy to install, works like a champ and is real quite. So I basically have the same rig but quite.
 
no difference between the black and Al, just different housing. Dont worry about watercooling the k8n neo2, Athlon64 chipsets DO NOT need active cooling on the chipset. The memory controller is what gets hot on northbridge chipsets, but in Athlon64 that is integrated into the chip, therefore a heatsink can passively cool it.
 
Hmm I had a discussion with some of my guildmates in World of Warcraft.(not people I really trust alot with hardware)

They said that the Koolance gets crappy temps due to small tubing and it is noisy. Are either of those statements true?
 
Why would you take the advice of a WOW guy?
Get on these forums, procooling.com, overclockers.com, and do some research.
 
Bop said:
Hmm I had a discussion with some of my guildmates in World of Warcraft.(not people I really trust alot with hardware)

They said that the Koolance gets crappy temps due to small tubing and it is noisy. Are either of those statements true?
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STRESSTEST is running 2 pc's with exos units......PM him and ask him what he thinks
 
I would be reluctant to bad mouth the new EXOS 2 system because no one has seen one. The old system was reportedly loud with the fan on highest setting. The tubing was only 1/4" ID.

I have to think the folks at Koolance read the reviews too. The new system is reportedly ~ $100 more and has a 10 step fan controler with 3/8" tubing.

I plan on trying one.
 
smaller diameter tubes does not necessarily mean lower cooling. That has been clearly exhibited by a number of the european watercooling outfits that have excellent cooling on very small diameter tubing.
 
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