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sponrad

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Which is better Water cooling or Air cooling? I know right off water is better but it is probably more expensive, and I need to know HOW much better it is to cope with the price.

I just bought a new motherboard to oc my Athlon xp 2100+. I have just the fan that came with the cpu and it is not very good so I need to get better cooling before I can oc and I don't know that much at all about any of it.
 
Originally posted by sponrad
Which is better Water cooling or Air cooling? I know right off water is better but it is probably more expensive, and I need to know HOW much better it is to cope with the price.

I just bought a new motherboard to oc my Athlon xp 2100+. I have just the fan that came with the cpu and it is not very good so I need to get better cooling before I can oc and I don't know that much at all about any of it.
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If you don´t care about noise you are fine with air cooling ;)
 
I forgot to mention that, I do want it quiet. Maybe I just need a better fan but mine is really loud and annoying.
 
if u can fit a zalman 7000A-CU on it get that, its SILETN and cools great, if not get a thermalright sp97, water is nice if ur rich and want a silent computer overclocked AS MUCH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN WITH OUT PHASE CAHNGE!!! but i doubt you do, so go with air, it's just aobut as good, and WAY CHEAPER!a nd way less work, and way less maintainence, and yes, i have watercooled... i doubbt i ever will again, unless i do pelts
 
Originally posted by boardsportsrule
if u can fit a zalman 7000A-CU on it get that, its SILETN and cools great, if not get a thermalright sp97, water is nice if ur rich and want a silent computer overclocked AS MUCH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN WITH OUT PHASE CAHNGE!!! but i doubt you do, so go with air, it's just aobut as good, and WAY CHEAPER!a nd way less work, and way less maintainence, and yes, i have watercooled... i doubbt i ever will again, unless i do pelts
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Just looked at the two you mentioned and the Zalman impressed me a lot. Not only does it look good it is cheap too. A quick search and I got it for 34.00 shipped from directron.com. Can't wait to oc with this thing. Thanks
 
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