Watercooling setup..

[madmax30d]

I dont wanna build one myself.

Rather just buy a watercool case with everything..

$ isnt an object.

What do you recommend?

 

[oneil]

I dont wanna build one myself.

Rather just buy a watercool case with everything..

$ isnt an object.

What do you recommend?

What are you looking to watercool, CPU? GPU? NB?
System specs, please.

You dont want to build it yourself, as in gather all the parts or assemble it?
Petra's tech makes some awesome kits, but you'll have to assemble them yourself. www.shoppts.com

If you take the time to read around the similar threads in the water cooling forum, you might pick up a thing or two.

 

[Dan_D]

Water cooling setup assembly isn't that difficult. If you take your time and select the right case you will be able to do it with minimal effort. Especially now that more and more cases are providing provisions for making it easier. Most of the Koolance cases and other integrated water cooling cases that you can buy off the shelves aren't the best and are rediculously priced.

 

[madmax30d]

what do you guys think about the THERMALTAKE KANDALF LCS LIQUID COOLED black

ill be running these specs

wd raptor hdisk -
intel core 2 dueo e6600
NVIDIA 8800 GTX -
corsair dominator - 2gb -
eVGA NVidia nforce 680i SLI OR ASUS P5k

 

[Dan_D]

what do you guys think about the THERMALTAKE KANDALF LCS LIQUID COOLED black

ill be running these specs

wd raptor hdisk -
intel core 2 dueo e6600
NVIDIA 8800 GTX -
corsair dominator - 2gb -
eVGA NVidia nforce 680i SLI OR ASUS P5k

Thermaltake watercooling products are generally condemed by those of this forum as being crap. Generally speaking there are a number of reasons to believe this is so, and as for my own opinion, Thermaltake cases are a poor choice everytime.

Doesn't the Kandalf have those stupid flaps on the front that the Armor cases have?

 

[madmax30d]

Well basically for a newbie with lets say $300-400 to spend ..

What do you recommend?

As you see, my specs are pretty good. Im trying to build a super pc basically. My old pc i built 4yrs ago isnt cutting it anymore.

 

[Dan_D]

Well basically for a newbie with lets say $300-400 to spend ..

What do you recommend?

As you see, my specs are pretty good. Im trying to build a super pc basically. My old pc i built 4yrs ago isnt cutting it anymore.

That depends. If you are going with an Internal or externally mounted radiator (Not talking about external units like the Nautilus or Koolance Exos 2) then you will probably find yourself needing to drill or cut on most cases in order to water cool them. There are few exceptions to this rule I've found, but as I said it's heavily dependent on the equipment you choose for your water cooling. The reservior and radiator of course making most of the difference in mounting requirements, and the pump might take some doing to get installed as well. Most cases are just not designed with water cooling in mind. Many of those Koolance cases are nothing more than bodies with integrated Exos units in them. Many people will tell you that you can get far better performance if you assemble your own cooling solution.

In any case, bigger is generally better for water cooling. In some smaller cases you can get good results, but you might have to do some more cutting. Are you good with a Dremel?

 

[madmax30d]

dont even know what a dremel is. Ive assembled air cooled cases never even messed with a water cooled one.

Maybe ill stick to air cooling for now.

 

[Dan_D]

dont even know what a dremel is. Ive assembled air cooled cases never even messed with a water cooled one.

Maybe ill stick to air cooling for now.

http://www.dremel.com/ Simply it is one of the finest tools you can own and not that expensive either. It's a jack of all trades. I've even seen a drill press-adapter for them allowing you to use it as the afore mentioned device.

As for the second part, maybe.

 

[madmax30d]

whats the easiest way to get a watercooled system..

buy a case?

 

[Dan_D]

whats the easiest way to get a watercooled system..

buy a case?

The easiest thing to do is go for an external setup I think. The Corsair Nautilus 500 and Koolance Exos 2 are two such examples of external water cooling units. I think those might even be easier to setup than the case would be. Not sure though.

 

[Arcygenical]

Easiest way to get a WC system is to READ about it first, and assemble the parts required seperately.

Seriously OP, no offence meant to you, but you have a LOT of reading to do before I'd recommend you go through with this..

We can't give you all the answers.

Self-built kits are much MUCH better than a prebought sollution.

You don't have to do any cutting... a triple radiator can be mounted outside the back of the case.

 

[madmax30d]

For now ill go aircooled
Perfomance PC-s Lian-Li G70 "Goliath" case
+
Tuniq Tower

Ill give watercool one more year and see whats out there..

 

[Dan_D]

You don't have to do any cutting... a triple radiator can be mounted outside the back of the case.

I think that statement would be more accurate if it read "You don't necessarily have to cut anything, it is possible to mount some tripple radiators on the back of the case, if the case is tall enough". We all know that every installation and combination of parts works out a little differently each time. The Internal configuration of the case and what's needed to mount particular components can mean drilling or cutting to make those parts work in some cases.

 

[Dark Prodigy]

OP, you could always simply buy a prebuilt from a respected boutique builder which would happily install watercooling with the system specs of your choice. For a premium of course.

Voodoo PC
AVA Direct
Revenant PC
Overdrive PC
Hypersonic PC
Puget


Just to name a few. You could also buy 'pre-watercooled' cases from places such as Performance-PCs.com and Frozencpu.com, that have all watercooling components preinstalled.

 

[madmax30d]

thats why i mentioned THERMALTAKE KANDALF LCS but nobody likes it here