Water cooling: How?

[Uuplaku]

With the parts for my new system on the way, the shocking realization comes over me.

MY COOLING SUCKS.

So I need to know: How does one go about getting parts for, and buildign a water cooling system?

Also, reccomendations on parts would be excellent.

 

[skrill]

Go to Procooling.com and Overclockers.com and read the relevant articles -- and, more importanly, browse their forums.

I learned all I needed to know about watercooling system in few days. Its actually very easy to do.

As far as parts. Check out my for sale thread -- link -- I put together an awesome setup that fits entirely into my Antec 1040 case.

It is a great system -- and very efficient -- but I have decided to give Peltiers a whirl and would like to upgrade (but I am not dying to -- just and itch). I made my system with all top of the line parts and cost me about $210.

I definately think that Eheim pumps and Danger Den Maze waterblocks are must haves. I personally picked the Black Ice Radiator because I liked its size, efficiency, and ease of mounting (basically if you can mount a 120mm fan you can mount this rad). Other people don't like to spend the $$$ on Black Ice -- and choose to go with larger, less efficient -- but equally effective -- radiators.

Good luck -- let me know if I can help.

 

[FlowerMan]

Get a premade kit from Koolance. It's water cooling for dummies You could check out www.dangerden.com for good parts

Be aware, WC aint cheap

 

[skrill]

No offense to Flowerman,

But I would not recomend using a kit if you want really good stuff (unless you go with say a Danger Den kit). I have seen some pretty harsh reviews of Blizzard and Koolance kits. I saw one review where the Koolance case system simply could not keep an Athlon system cool enough to prevent it from crashing -- now you have to really suck to make a watercooling system that bad.

 

[FlowerMan]

For the most part, Koolance systems are ok. hardocp's reviews are very good. These kinds of kits are good for the newbie, but not good enough for us Hardasses I'd get a kit from dangerden or dtek. Koolance systems come preassembled, all you gotta do is add your computer parts.

 

[Uuplaku]

Ah, thanks