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Since I still haven't figured a (eye-pleasing) way to mount a raditor on my P182 (WITHOUT CUTTING!), I'm moving my watercooling to another project... SFF and MicroATX! It should be fun. This will be cooling the PROCESSOR ONLY.
I'm planning on a custom-built case, as small as possible. For that reason, I'll need nothing bigger than a 120mm radiator (yeah, I know, huge performance drop there). The question is, which should I get?
The Black Ice GTX is a bit thicker, and seems like it should perform better (I'll need all the performance I can get). It's twice the price ($74) of the Swiftech, though.
The MCR120 is cheap ($33), but how's the performance? The smaller size may help as well.
Other than that, there's also ThemoChill for $93, but it's a bit more than what I'd like to pay. The GTX is pushing it, but I can probably deal with it. If the ThermoChill's performance is literally double or triple the GTX, I would consider it.
So, thoughts, suggestions, comments? Is 120mm single too small to even bother with water cooling?
Thanks.
I'm planning on a custom-built case, as small as possible. For that reason, I'll need nothing bigger than a 120mm radiator (yeah, I know, huge performance drop there). The question is, which should I get?
The Black Ice GTX is a bit thicker, and seems like it should perform better (I'll need all the performance I can get). It's twice the price ($74) of the Swiftech, though.
The MCR120 is cheap ($33), but how's the performance? The smaller size may help as well.
Other than that, there's also ThemoChill for $93, but it's a bit more than what I'd like to pay. The GTX is pushing it, but I can probably deal with it. If the ThermoChill's performance is literally double or triple the GTX, I would consider it.
So, thoughts, suggestions, comments? Is 120mm single too small to even bother with water cooling?
Thanks.