Do I need a water cooling kit?

[hunter117]

For my new PC I am confused in how I am going to to cool it.
I am aware that a good air cooler is sufficient enough and a water cooler may only be needed for really high specs.
However, in the future I will undoubtedly upgrade my PC with better hardware which will, in turn, produce more heat.
So is it worth it to buy a water cooling kit?

So far, these are my chosen specs:
Nvidi GTX 680
Intel i7 3770k (over-clocked)
Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866MHz
Asus P8Z77-V PRO Intel Z77 Motherboard
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard
OCZ ZX Series 850W PSU
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB
64GB SSD
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

 

[Justintime]

Better hardware does not necessarily equate to more heat, sometimes the opposite is true. Also, is it a guarantee that the kit you buy now will be compatiable with future sockets etc? I think you're overthinking it a bit.

 

[kalvindeane]

Probably not.

As Justintime has said, newer hardware does not always run at higher temperatures than older hardware.
Case in point: My i7 920 (think they came out in 2008) operates 15-20 degrees hotter than the newer i7 2600k
in the same case with the same cooling measures in place.

Air cooling and a well-ventilated case will handle that hardware fine, unless of course you are trying to
overclock your hardware by a very large amount. I'd buy a good case along with some decent fans
and a good air CPU cooler. You can always add a watercooling loop to your computer in the future if
you really wanted to.

 

[j.col]

Probably not.

As Justintime has said, newer hardware does not always run at higher temperatures than older hardware.
Case in point: My i7 920 (think they came out in 2008) operates 15-20 degrees hotter than the newer i7 2600k
in the same case with the same cooling measures in place.

Air cooling and a well-ventilated case will handle that hardware fine, unless of course you are trying to
overclock your hardware by a very large amount. I'd buy a good case along with some decent fans
and a good air CPU cooler. You can always add a watercooling loop to your computer in the future if
you really wanted to.

this.
also by kit do you mean an all in one kit like a kuhler 920 or a corsair h100?
high end air coolers will be quieter and roughly the same performance as the h100 but at a cheaper price.
if you mean a proper kit like a EK-KIT H3O 240 LTX, this will be better, but a lot more expensive, and then the fitting/maintenance can be time consuming.
if you are going for a heavy overclock, then go for the watercooling.
if you are going for an everyday overclock, then i would go for high end air, but thats just my opinion.
also high end air, will require you to get low profile ram.