good watercooling....

[INemtsev]

I saw a cool Swiftech water kit the other day...I thought of getting it but....damn....those pipes are soooo thick......they take up half the cases space, and I have a window in my case.....with those pipes I wont see a thing.....I am looking for a kit that has good lookling components and fairly big water radiator....any suggestions?

 

[drewdogg808]

pick your own components. its pretty straightforward.

check out:
cooltechnica
dangerden
dtekcustoms

good luck.

 

[EXOSsted]

Originally posted by: INemtsev
I saw a cool Swiftech water kit the other day...I thought of getting it but....damn....those pipes are soooo thick......they take up half the cases space, and I have a window in my case.....with those pipes I wont see a thing.....I am looking for a kit that has good lookling components and fairly big water radiator....any suggestions?

I just bought the Koolance EXOS and I am absolutely blown away at how awesome this thing is. Remember this about WATER-COOLING, everybody who DOESN'T have WC seems to be "real experts" and they all like to pass around false information based on speculation or second hand knowledge. Here is what I am seeing...

I have an ATHLON XP 2400+ THOROUGHBRED CPU that I WC'd with my Koolance EXOS kit. I went out and bought the GOLD/COPPER GPU cooler and WC'd my RADEON 9200 128mb DDR. As you can already tell, my hardware is good, but not great...WC'd, its great! Yes I am still limited by architecture, but I can tell you this. I am running at 27 Celsius/roughly 81 degrees Fahrenheit at IDLE. This chip normally runs in the 112-116 Fahrenheit neighborhood at IDLE!! Under load I have never gone over 32 degrees Celsius/roughly 91 degrees Fahrenheit!! Granted my CPU is not OC'd do to my crappy ECS board, and why bother with voltages with a 2400+? Considering the 2400+ usually runs around 125 degrees Fahrenheit under load, you do the math, totally insane cooling! So even at "Stock" speeds, my CPU works way less harder and I can see a noticable difference in how consistant I am under load(ie...Games). Your talking nearly 40 degrees cooler give or take, I even have a photo to prove it with my rig...

RADEON 9200 128mb DDR, this is where it gets insane, I can SAFELY OC this thing from the 250Mhz stock Clock to over 300Mhz without a problem. I can OC the Vid memory with no problem from 200Mhz to 230Mhz as well. Now this may seem modest to you, you might be thinking, "I would expect way more". Well consider this, this is for as long as I want, pushing the card as hard as I want, no turning it down like I use to have to do when I AIR cooled. Water-Cooling simply makes you super consistant, my results will of course very GIVE or TAKE, but I think this is really unreal considering I simply bolted this equipment up to my PC. This, combined with HARDWARE/SOFTWARE OCing is really very analogous to adding a good Vortech Supercharger/Greddy Turbo to your ride. Serious gains can be had with proper tuning...

My kit cost me all of about $275 with taxes and I bought the stuff at FRY's, could have got it cheaper online...


KOOLANCE WATER COOLING

Here is my rig...

Photo's of my Water-Cooled Rig with Koolance Exos...

Good luck guys on your choice of coolers, I am never going back!

 

[drewdogg808]

Originally posted by: EXOSsted

Originally posted by: INemtsev
I saw a cool Swiftech water kit the other day...I thought of getting it but....damn....those pipes are soooo thick......they take up half the cases space, and I have a window in my case.....with those pipes I wont see a thing.....I am looking for a kit that has good lookling components and fairly big water radiator....any suggestions?

I just bought the Koolance EXOS and I am absolutely blown away at how awesome this thing is. Remember this about WATER-COOLING, everybody who DOESN'T have WC seems to be "real experts" and they all like to pass around false information based on speculation or second hand knowledge. Here is what I am seeing...

I have an ATHLON XP 2400+ THOROUGHBRED CPU that I WC'd with my Koolance EXOS kit. I went out and bought the GOLD/COPPER GPU cooler and WC'd my RADEON 9200 128mb DDR. As you can already tell, my hardware is good, but not great...WC'd, its great! Yes I am still limited by architecture, but I can tell you this. I am running at 27 Celsius/roughly 81 degrees Fahrenheit at IDLE. This chip normally runs in the 112-116 Fahrenheit neighborhood at IDLE!! Under load I have never gone over 32 degrees Celsius/roughly 91 degrees Fahrenheit!! Granted my CPU is not OC'd do to my crappy ECS board, and why bother with voltages with a 2400+? Considering the 2400+ usually runs around 125 degrees Fahrenheit under load, you do the math, totally insane cooling! So even at "Stock" speeds, my CPU works way less harder and I can see a noticable difference in how consistant I am under load(ie...Games). Your talking nearly 40 degrees cooler give or take, I even have a photo to prove it with my rig...

RADEON 9200 128mb DDR, this is where it gets insane, I can SAFELY OC this thing from the 250Mhz stock Clock to over 300Mhz without a problem. I can OC the Vid memory with no problem from 200Mhz to 230Mhz as well. Now this may seem modest to you, you might be thinking, "I would expect way more". Well consider this, this is for as long as I want, pushing the card as hard as I want, no turning it down like I use to have to do when I AIR cooled. Water-Cooling simply makes you super consistant, my results will of course very GIVE or TAKE, but I think this is really unreal considering I simply bolted this equipment up to my PC. This, combined with HARDWARE/SOFTWARE OCing is really very analogous to adding a good Vortech Supercharger/Greddy Turbo to your ride. Serious gains can be had with proper tuning...

My kit cost me all of about $275 with taxes and I bought the stuff at FRY's, could have got it cheaper online...


KOOLANCE WATER COOLING

Here is my rig...

Photo's of my Water-Cooled Rig with Koolance Exos...

Good luck guys on your choice of coolers, I am never going back!

i hope your first paragraph wasn't implying that i have second hand knowledge.
my setup

nice website btw.....although a little cable management could be in order. i thought mine was a little messy.