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Waterblock for a 965BE

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smokinAMD

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I'm trying to find a good waterblock for my PII 965BE, curious to see what people have used. Seems like everything on Newegg is for Intel setups. I'd prefer to purchase from newegg, as I have customer credit there and kinda want to use it up.

This is my first attempt at piecing together a watercooling setup. As of right now, I think I'm going to be going with a Swiftech MCP655 pump and a Swiftech MCR320-QP radiator. As far as a reservoir, I'm kinda digging the Danger Den RAD-Reservoir. I'm probably not going to be cooling my 5770 yet, as I bought it as a temporary card until the 6000 series cards come out, but who knows, maybe I wont upgrade it, as I am happy with its performance for the most part, so maybe there is a good block for it as well.

I've got all of this going into a Corsair 700D case, the radiator will be going in at the top to fill up the 3 120mm fan holes. Only question I have is, should I have the fans mounted highest blowing cool air down onto the radiator, or the radiator at the highest with fans pulling cool air down, or pushing the air from inside the case out.
 
Although not at NewEgg, I can recommend the CPU-360 from Koolance. They've received a lot of flack for their cooling systems with regard to price but, I have never seen cooling blocks with better fit and finish.
 
I'm guessing everything out there will work with socket AM3 for the most part? It would be nice if some companies out there would actually get off Intel's cock and say "Hey, our shit works on AMD too."
 
Some blocks need adapter hardware for particular boards so, do your research before getting ready to assemble.
 
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do right now, but it seems like most of them out there don't list supporting the socket or saying "hardware included to support it". Instead I'm reading a lot of "certified for core i7" BS. The few that I do see, are from brands that I've never heard of, and have some questionable reviews.

Ideally, I was hoping for about 30 people to reply to this thread, and of those 30, 15 or so recommending one particular block. A 50% recommendation wouldn't be so hard for me go off of.
 
smokinAMD said:
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do right now, but it seems like most of them out there don't list supporting the socket or saying "hardware included to support it". Instead I'm reading a lot of "certified for core i7" BS. The few that I do see, are from brands that I've never heard of, and have some questionable reviews.

Ideally, I was hoping for about 30 people to reply to this thread, and of those 30, 15 or so recommending one particular block. A 50% recommendation wouldn't be so hard for me go off of.
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Folks tend to be fairly 'rabid' about their water cooling setups so, I wouldn't expect there to be much consensus. You can ether select an entire cooling system from one company or, you can do the research on specific components for fit, materials used and, performance.

I list performance last which might seem heretical on these boards but, the truth is that, within a given cooling range, most systems cool to within 4 or 5 degrees of each other. If that matters to you, then have fun but, I see WC as a more stable, with greater capacity for change than air cooling.
 
+1 for the Koolance 360 block. just upgraded mine from the 350 to a 360 and load temp dropped 3c.
 
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