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Watercooling Decision

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iSkylla

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I have about 150-200 to spend and I decided that my air cooling just isn't doing enough. My room is usually quite warm thus I have to keep the side of my PC off so my case temps dont go above 50C. If I put the panel on, my case temp goes to 51C which is too warm for my taste. So I would like to get water cooling just so I can keep it cool and quiet. A small overclock is fine but not too much because I dont have good OCing RAM. Specs are in sig. Thanks.
 
iSkylla said:
I have about 150-200 to spend and I decided that my air cooling just isn't doing enough. My room is usually quite warm thus I have to keep the side of my PC off so my case temps dont go above 50C. If I put the panel on, my case temp goes to 51C which is too warm for my taste. So I would like to get water cooling just so I can keep it cool and quiet. A small overclock is fine but not too much because I dont have good OCing RAM. Specs are in sig. Thanks.
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so... what exactly are you asking? what kit to get? or are you just stating you have decided to water cool?
 
Spend the extra money and buy the Swiftech Apex kit. The best right now hands down.
 
the apex kit is great, however at better than $250 US, i think that's outside of your price range, especially since you still need to add a GPU block to it. once again, it IS great.

are you okay with getting individual parts, and doing some work yourself? that would most likely let you get better performance in your price range than a pre-fab kit.
 
yeah i'd recommend doing it yourself, get a hydor pump, some kind of 2x120 radiator, and a cpu block and gpu block... i just ordered my cpu block last night, the MCW-6000, was considering bumping up to 1/2" tubing too, but i've already sunk too much money on this build that i decided to stick with 3/8"... next time around i'll go 1/2"...

i bought my radiator from this guy last year, and i'm super impressed by it still, its well worth the money.


http://cgi.ebay.com/WATER-COOLING-R...809637706QQcategoryZ80150QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
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Well I am new at this and I would feel more comfortable with a kit.
 
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