Originally posted by: Raider1284
Originally posted by: manimal
Originally posted by: Raider1284
man for $100 you might as well go watercooling. That is a rediculous price for that heatsink. Lapping gives you at most 3 degrees difference if the original cooler was even slightly good, and to pay an additional $20 for at most 3 degrees?
You can get a pretty nice watercooling setup for ~150
Show a decent watercooling parts list that costs 150 bucks? Thermalpuke does not count.
easy
pump:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835108081 $57
cpu block:
http://www.petrastechshop.com/swapexpeunwa.html $48
radiator:
http://www.petrastechshop.com/swmcqposerab.html $ 45
misc stuff: tubes/clamps/etc 20
this is using a dual fan radiator, it cools better but costs more. A single fan radiator only sets ya back ~30.
You could reduce the price even more by picking up an pond style inline pump for ~20. It uses normal wall jack power cable but should perform just as well.
uhhh you need to redue your math here. This doesnt add up to 150. Infact you go over it quite a bit.
What you didnt note is you need to buy the 2 fans, also its highly recomend you buy metal barbs to replace the plastic ones on the block and radiator. Also, you dont list a T-line or a reservoir, and if he's a newbie, i wouldnt recomend him customing his kit, when he can buy a fully packaged one with excellent manuals over at petras.
So no, this wouldnt work on a newbie. No collant included. And yes i know distilled is cheap, but you need to regularly flush a loop that has no coolant addatives.
The cheapest i was able to pull off a compelte h2o kit was 200 /w shipping. Thats the cheapest, but i wouldnt want a newbie to install it without any good manuals.
