Best Watercooling System for under $200?

[TheGeek]

I currently have the following componets in my system and they're all really loud and hot. My 6800 is 64 C idle. Which is the best water cooling system that will let me overclock my CPU and GPU for under $200?

AMD Ahlon 64 3400+
ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
1GB PC3200 RAM
BFG 6800 GT OC

 

[pirred908]

Check out Swiftech's products. www.swiftnets.com. I highly recommend them, unless you want to put together a custom system.

 

[gotensan01]

I don't mean to drop a turd on your thread here but I don't know if you can buy a good water cooling setup for under $200. Have you considered building a custom one? If you look in the FS/FT thread, you can occassionally find used water cooling items.

I built my first setup like that. Granted I had to do a good deal of research and it took about 1 month to actually find all the parts, I was able to build a really good setup for around $250.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

check out toms review of 7 water cooling systems they are all under 200 except for 1


water cooling test

 

[willfreund]

I like my Reserator. It cools better than a thermalTake3. Its not that powerful But it makes a excellent coffie maker in the morning and is totaly silent

 

[willfreund]

Some good kits are A Swiftech, A koolance Exos.If your skilled get a danger den.These with waterblocks are all under 220$

 

[stardust]

dtek custom

 

[prometheusxls]

Originally posted by: willfreund
Some good kits are A Swiftech, A koolance Exos.If your skilled get a danger den.These with waterblocks are all under 220$

I was watchign this thread becauseI too am intereste din getting into WC, if I can do it on the cheap. I found info about Exos and DD kits and both seem like nice options. For me its only worth it to go water if I can cool the vid card was well. And possibly the HDD too. Do many of these kits have the "head room" to cool off all that? The danger den looked best to me becuase I want to get into it a bit.

 

[pirred908]

Originally posted by: prometheusxls

Originally posted by: willfreund
Some good kits are A Swiftech, A koolance Exos.If your skilled get a danger den.These with waterblocks are all under 220$

I was watchign this thread becauseI too am intereste din getting into WC, if I can do it on the cheap. I found info about Exos and DD kits and both seem like nice options. For me its only worth it to go water if I can cool the vid card was well. And possibly the HDD too. Do many of these kits have the "head room" to cool off all that? The danger den looked best to me becuase I want to get into it a bit.

Yes, there's plenty of head room to cool your video card aswell. Don't cool your HDD with water, thats lame. Just get a nice air cooling solution for your HDD. Adding more components to a loop than necessary just slows down the flow. I don't even suggest cooling your chipset with water. a nice passive or active cooler is more than good enough. Water cooling your CPU and GPU is all thats necessary. IMO.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: pirred908

Originally posted by: prometheusxls

Originally posted by: willfreund
Some good kits are A Swiftech, A koolance Exos.If your skilled get a danger den.These with waterblocks are all under 220$

I was watchign this thread becauseI too am intereste din getting into WC, if I can do it on the cheap. I found info about Exos and DD kits and both seem like nice options. For me its only worth it to go water if I can cool the vid card was well. And possibly the HDD too. Do many of these kits have the "head room" to cool off all that? The danger den looked best to me becuase I want to get into it a bit.

Yes, there's plenty of head room to cool your video card aswell. Don't cool your HDD with water, thats lame. Just get a nice air cooling solution for your HDD. Adding more components to a loop than necessary just slows down the flow. I don't even suggest cooling your chipset with water. a nice passive or active cooler is more than good enough. Water cooling your CPU and GPU is all thats necessary. IMO.

It isn't "lame" if that's what you want to do, AND a good forced-air solution is just as expensive as a HD block. Also, a forced-air HD solution won't remove ambient heat from your case, which is also a valid reason for using water. Adding blocks doesn't mean that you have to settle for less flow. Two of those tiny S-sytem pumps, at $35 a pop, hooked up in parallel will easily drive multiple blocks quite well.

Yoda: The choice is, of course, yours. But I'd suggest waiting until you have another $150. That way you won't have to skimp on quality parts. If you REALLY want to go water, do it right. That way you won't be taking much of a chance on being dissapointed later, like so many who tried to meatball it. Also, there are MANY non-biased sources of data on the web covering this topic. Avail yourself of them before you take the jump.