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What would be a good cooling system for this system

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What would be a good cooling system for this system if the user will be overclocking it?

? EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
? Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6700
? Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
? eVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
? Patriot eXtreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
? Leadtek TV2000XP/EXPERT PCI Interface TV/FM Tuner Card w/REMOTE
? LITE-ON Combo Drive Black IDE Model SOHC-5236V
? Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2b 1pk w/Upgrade Coupon for Vista - OEM


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Water cooling? Depends how much the user wants to overclock really, you could quite happily just use a case with a couple of 120mm fans and a decent CPU Cooler.
 
Tuniq Tower 120 for the CPU
If you like big cases with tons of space, try a Thermaltake Armor

Also, from what I hear (since I only have an e6300), you get better results overclocking the e6600 over the e6700, you may wish to look at some of the posts on that.
 
Originally posted by: Syran
Tuniq Tower 120 for the CPU
If you like big cases with tons of space, try a Thermaltake Armor

Also, from what I hear (since I only have an e6300), you get better results overclocking the e6600 over the e6700, you may wish to look at some of the posts on that.
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Thanks. It seems as though that HSF is always out of stock at newegg.com. How about this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118223

 
Originally posted by: VinDSL
Lots of fans... 😉
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ROFLMAO.... i agree with this statement.. if u have no knowledge of watercooling, which im assuming u dont because if u did, u wouldnt be asking this question.

Your gonna need lots and lots of fans because of that rediculously sexy, but majorly overpowered videocard 😛
 
Well, my rig is almost identical to yours, except I'm going with an E6600 and different RAM, but nearly the same rig.

Also, I got the Tuniq Tower. Reviews are quite good on it. It's big though, so that is part of why I got the case that I did get, mentioned below.

That being said, I decided on this case GIGABYTE 3D AURORA . I chose this case for a few reasons...I don't mind a full-tower and it gives plenty of room for airflow. It also has built-in tubing holes if I decide to go water-cooling down the road. It also has 3- 120mm fans (1 in, 2 out). Couple that with a Tuniq Tower (I got mine at xpcgear.com...in stock and 3-day shipping for total of @ $64), and we both should be good.

Hope that helps and good luck! It should be a killer rig.

Oh, one more thing...I also decided to get a PCI slot fan to blow directly onto the 8800GTX. Something like this: Solid fan. IMO, you'll have plenty of room and you can never have enough cooling, right? 🙂

Good luck!
 
I got my Tuniq Towers from FrozenCPU.com.

Owner is a member here, always been great to work with.

I'm actually builing my 2nd system around the TT Armor case, it's huge, heavy, and keeps things fairly cool 🙂
 
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