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Been searching around on here and havent found what I want.

Looking at getting a water cooling setup, thing is I don't know which.

I want to OC a duo core to 3.2ghz + and I would like to WC my vid card.
I have seen water kits with one tiny radiator and ones with a huge one with 2 120 fans, and seen cases(koolance) that come with everything needed.

For cooling the GPU I have seen the small cooling blocks for just the GPU and I have seen the $150-200 ones that cover 90% of the card, still not sure what I would need.

I am not looking for extreme pushing to the limits OC, but more bang for my buck OC.

I keep thinking Air cool would work, but water might be better.
 
What's your GPU?

Generally you'll want at LEAST a double 120mm radiator to cool any 7800 or higher GPU with a conroe.

An 8800 Card requires a full-cover block IMO, it's just ALOT easier to use.

As for a CPU waterblock, the Dtek Fuzion is the current champ.

Water cooling is most useful for QUIET computing these days, it's not uncommon to have a top-of the line water system perform at noise levels well below a mid-low range air system.
 
Looking into the 8800 gpu, so I am thinking just for easy of setup a Koolance case would be best.
 
The Koolance PC-V1000 kits with a Koolance block would perform alright...

Nothing to really write home about though.
 
Muppet said:
Looking into the 8800 gpu, so I am thinking just for easy of setup a Koolance case would be best.
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The Koolance is a win/lose proposition. It's a win due to the ease of getting into WC for the first time, they just don't get much easier to start with but the lose is the fact that the performance isn't the greatest especially when balanced against the dollars spent. It's very easy to become frustrated with it if you're after really good cooling because it doesn't offer more than midrange performance as far as water is concerned.

You'll soon find yourself lamenting the huge outlay of money spent on the Koolance when you find out just how much high end cooling gear you could've bought for the same money if you shop smart.

My advice is to buy a full on performance kit and get the GPU block you need ala carte to go with it and integrate it into the case of your choosing, in the end you'll be a lot happier. I know I was. I went the Koolance route to begin with.
 
Anything I should look for in a case? Something that will fit a water cooling kit? I know some of the kits have a big radiator, but will that just bolt up to the back?
 
depending on the case some of the larger radiators require some thinking when it comes to how your going to mount them. if you dont know what a dremmel is or have never used one, a koolance case might just be best for you. if you are a little creative or can find a case that expressly fits the radiator you get, its not hard to find a place for it. and the radiator is the largest piece your going to have to deal with. the pump and resevoir are generaly easier to tuck away in the corner. this is what alot of people love about the hobby, gettin to cut up that case you just droped 100+ dollars for to make it even better and so that no one else has the same case as you :p i cant realy tell you what cases are good, the one im using now is built completely custom from 3/4" pressboard :), though i know the company lianli makes just about the best cases around but they arent cheap.
 
You can probably get a little bit more performance than koolance with the frozencpu prebuilts, but it's still a lot of money
 
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