Price is not an issue. What cooling system(s) should I get?

undeclared

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Case: Yeong Yang YY-0221 slightly modded
http://www.yeongyang.com/products/yy0221.htm

Two pictures of side with mounted motherboard (Not the same board or setup):
http://www.yeongyang.com/images/yy-0221_3.jpg
http://www.modthebox.com/reviews/yeongyang/yy0221b/yycube35.jpg

Keep in mind one thing (and look at above pic): Inside this case, motherboard basicly has its OWN side, meaning I have a LOT of room (way above average) for fans, cooling, etc..

Price is not an issue. I want the best of the best.

Right now I am thinking: liquid cooling + a lot of air cooling (preferably silent though)

Board is ASUS a8n-sli platinum, CPU is Amd Athlon 64 x2 3800 (I want to OC this to 2.8 hopefully)

Dual 7800 GTX cards SLI (cooling this as well would be good..)

Give me your thoughts!
 

Cheesetogo

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If price is not a issue, I would look into phase-change cooling. This company makes vapo-chill, which is probably the most popular phase change cooler. Asetek You should note that you probably wouldn't have much of a selection with cases because their systems are all built into cases.

Here's their top-end cooler.

(go to cpu coolers, then lightspeed)
 

mrkun

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Seriously, I would forget about phase change cooling. Just get a nice watercooling setup and use the extra money for an SLI-rig.
 

undeclared

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I've decided to get phase cooling, but not asetek (too loud).. there was another company, I forgot the maker.. but its apparently more silent than the asetek.

Furthermore, I'm getting water cooling for my video card GPUs..

and I'm going to be adding a lot of case fans..

I am changing my case from Yeong Yang to a Lian-Li case, though.. because it has room specifically for the phase changing thing (and that also means I can try and soundproof that part)..

Second decision: ASAP - buying x2 4400 (for 1mb cache per die / 2mb total)..

However, I will keep the x2 3800 and see how far I can get it with phase cooling (with screenshots of course), once I receive the phase cooling thing..
 

Dragoon42

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are you going with a prometeia? If you're looking into phase change, I'd recomment you visit xtreme system forums