Value water cooling?

[Shaorinor]

Planning on OC'ing my CPU when I buy it...hoping to get a 2500 or 2600+. Was wondering what options I have out there without breaking my pockets. Want to at least have a chipset, cpu and video card cooler.

 

[dmw16]

While I am no expert. I dont know that you really need watercooling to overclock most AMDs. I guess it depends on how fast you wanna go. But a lot of times the chip holds you back. You may wanna try to buy a pre-tested chip. Or atleast one where you can confirm the markings.
-doug

 

[0roo0roo]

the question is whether the watercooling will cost the same as the faster chip in the end.

 

[beatle]

Cooling all of those components will require a good sized radiator and pump, in addition to a few decent fans. I've not yet seen a powerful watercooling setup on the cheap. Air cooling keeps getting better, and it's always easier than watercooling.

 

[ROJAS]

Koolance sells water cooling kits. Reasonable for water cooling.

ROJAS

 

[Dragontail]

in my experience water cooling are not needed. overclocking with a athlonXP is much harder than with a p4. if u want wate serious overclocking try p4 with water cooling. an fan+good heatsink sould do the job.

 

[Gunjin22]

Well actually I have a watercooling set. If you are interested, email me and I can show you the pics of everything and then work out a price for all the parts. All top copper blocks, rad,pump, etc..
Any questions let me know.
gunjin22@yahoo.com

 

[soja]

First of all, unaclocker wrote a great budget watercooling article at procooling. but here is something similar to my own budget watercooling setup (accept waterblock):

Without Shipping prices:

Via Aqua 1300 pump - 20$
86 Chevette heatercore @ autozone.com - 16.99$
X Aqua AMD waterblock - 19.99$

Homebrew:

Sheet metal shroud
Tupperware Shroud
Junction box reservoir

As for the chipset & gpu waterblock I haven't found any that are cheap enough for me to consider. Both aren't worth the price IMO. But there a wide variety for you to choose from, all you need is google 🙂. And of course you need at least 1 fan, tubing, fan shroud, misc clamps & water additives but the prices on that may vary.

 

[papaschtroumpf]

Don't OC an XP 2500+ or 2600+, you won't be able to get much higher than 2800+ performance or so for a stable system, which you can get out of a 2100+ Throuroughbred B cooled on air.

I'm running my 2100+ at 2700+ speeds (simply changed FSB to 333) using zalman flower with fan at 2000rpm and it works great and quiet, temps are 48 degrees C after 2 hours of UT2003.
I also have a Zalman GPU cooler on my GF4 Ti4800 so total cooling solution set me back about $50 for a really quiet rig (except for that %$#! CD-ROM drive, but I use Virtual-CD most of the time anyway)

Don't get me worng, I'd love to "play" with water cooling, but the prices are not low enough yet to justify it on an Athlon XP (ans since I'm an AMD fna I can;t comment on usefulness with P4s).

 

[Shaorinor]

I know it isn't needed, but I'm one of those guys that likes to play with these things, hehe. I currently have an AX-7 for the CPU, it just doesn't really fit well on my board at the moment, plus I need to find some good Panaflo fans that are already tailed.