Which water cooling to use? me oh my

alilxmas · Rated PG Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 3

Hello
I want to get away with using fans to cool the chips and maybe also make it a little quieter. The case is one of the large coolermaster stacker ones (11 bays) in this case I want to place 2 of the water cooling units on the bottom - side by side with the controls facing to the left side of the case. I know that I will have to change the direction of most of the coolers listed below, reason being is that the air into my room is from the left side of the case, and I want the controls there. So I would like to have the exhaust blowing out the right sides of the case. Most of the coolers I believe blow air out where the controls are and that simply wont do..

I am pretty handy at modding things and think most will go pretty easily. I kno w from the water cooling kits One is goingt o be used for the CPU and the other for the VGA card, maybe crossfire duel cards.

Hello I am in the process of making a new PC because I dont like my old one much anymore and was wondering if anyone here has used any of the following products for water cooling? I am more interested in the bad points more than the good, but good comments are also welcome.

WATERCOOLING KITS
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TWC-A04

http://www.aocusa.com/pview.php?g=PC%20Cooling&c=CPU%20and%20Chipset%20Coolers&sc=Water%20Cooling%20Solutions&model=EC-TWC-A04

EC-WC-202

http://www.aocusa.com/pview.php?g=PC%20Cooling&c=Water%20Cooling&sc=Water%20Cooling%20Kits&model=EC-WC-202
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Thermaltake A1681 Aquarius III Liquid Cooling Kit

http://www.directron.com/a1681.html
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Koolance EXOS-2 External Water Cooling Kit - Black EX2-750BK

http://www.xoxide.com/koolance-exos-2-black.html
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Kingwin AquaStar AS-3000 Water Cooling Kit
http://www.xoxide.com/kingwin-aquastar-as-3000.html

Kingwin AWC-1 Arctic Computer Liquid Cooling System

http://www.xoxide.com/kwcoolingsys.html
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sbrehm72255 · Posted: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:32:44 Post Subject:

Of all the oes that yu have listed, the only one I would buy is the Koolance, the others will not give you any sort of performance gains. And in some cases depending on the component being cooled, might make things worse.
Is there any reason that you are only selecting self contained kits? There are a lot of other kits out there that will offer you great performance but have to be installed part by part. Swiftech makes some great performance kits that will put those you listed to shame.
Also, the kit that they just reviewed here would also do a pretty good job for you. Get 2, one for the CPU and another for the video cards and you're good to go.
For best performance, go with a DIY system, if you're good at modding, they will work the best for you.

**Jason** · Posted: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:07:58 Post Subject:

Why two systems? I'd get one strong system that could handle all your components.

As for the ones in your list... We have only reviewed the Evercool WC-202: http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/evercoolwc202/index.php?file=1

zachig · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 313

If you do not plan on building your own DIY Water-Cooling system, I say, go with the Koolance EXOS-2.

I think it'll give your the best performance for the money you'll pay for it.

GOOD LUCK... Wave

monkeysauce · Rated PG Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

I know it's not technically a "kit", but dangerden sells bundled components that have pretty excellent performance. Big fan of their DC pump and TDX block
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Mazda 717C

sbrehm72255 · Posted: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:36:25 Post Subject:

This is one of the top performing kit's out right now, it contains everything you need for your CPU, add in a GPU block or 2 and your good to go.

http://www.swiftnets.com/products/H20-220-APEX.asp

GNiessen · Rated PG Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 1

I am leaning toward using the New Gigabyte kit. Though I will probably run two of them. One to do the CPU and RAM. Another to do the BFG 8800 and HDDs.