Best watercooling for £130.00

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Hi guy, I have a budget of £130.00 excluding VAT and want some advice from you pros about the best watercooling I could get on this budget. It can be either a kit or and seperate parts, I just want the best for my budget. Cheers for any help.
 
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Yep just CPU cooling, unless theres GPU cooling in the same kit. I don't know a lot a bout watercooling, it pretty much a newb to this. ;)
 
for 130 youre not going to get much more performance than a decent air cooler.

What kind of size rad do you want? (120.2 will do cpu only fine)

what case do you intend on fitting it in?

its just not as simple as
1.buy parts
2.fit cooling

You may need a larger case to house it in even you see :)
 
I have watercooled my last 3 rigs im not attempting to put him off just telling him the facts.

Your 3 reasons in your argument are all BS.

all you really get from watercooling is...
D, better temperatures for less noise

unless you really get satisfaction from pushing tubing over barbs and filling them with water........ ?

So back to my original question what case are you planning on putting it in?
 
s1ick said:
I have watercooled my last 3 rigs im not attempting to put him off just telling him the facts.

Your 3 reasons in your argument are all BS.

all you really get from watercooling is...
D, better temperatures for less noise

unless you really get satisfaction from pushing tubing over barbs and filling them with water........ ?

So back to my original question what case are you planning on putting it in?
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Its all about looks :cool:
 
Actually on a second thought, I'm getting an Q9450, How much could I overclock it with a Tuniq Tower 120 on it? And I'm getting the Antec Twelve Hundred case.
 
dunno If you could fit a 120.2 behind the front fans in that chassis? maybe it can be done, I'm not sure, not the ideal case for it though.

Theres not a figure you could get to with that particular cooler, there are 1,037 different variables to consider aside from the CPU and the cooler.

do a search for that proc, in this section to see what other users are running.

like this guy - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17891479&highlight=Q9450

Lol - way to put the man off, guys!
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no ones putting him off just trying to establish if he has a need to watercool his machine.
 
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Actually I didn't really want to thave to watercool it, I havn't really done my research. Mind answering a few questions? I'm not bothered at all about noise level, but does watercooling make it a lot more cooler than a good air cooling? If it does make a lot of difference than I'll watercool it, but if the only difference between that and air cooling is noise then I won't bother, I'd rather not watercool to be honest, I'd rather spend the money on something better.
 
Well its both Kinda,

once you get into air cooling you start adding more fans and faster fans to get higher clocks and benchmark scores making your system pretty cool, but excruciatingly noisey.
(too noisey to use 24/7)

with water you can have the same if not better cooling performance than a big hs with 2 fast 120mm's on it, but at no where near the noise output.

If this is your first build then I'd stay clear of water for the time being and get it up and running and do some small overclocks on air for the time being. then when you discover that you can no longer put any more volts through your CPU because your worried about temperatures then consider adding water.

Hope this helps :)
 
Yep it helps a lot mate, thank you very much. Ok, so I'm gonna scrap the water cooling and get an air cooler. Is the Tuniq Tower the best one? Also, I know there 2 different ones which are here and here.

Is the only difference between the two that one has a blue LED light and the other don't? Or is there and difference in performace? Because they both look different to me. Lol, anyway thanks for all the help people! :)
 
s1ick said:
for 130 youre not going to get much more performance than a decent air cooler.

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Err not true especially if you use MM on here and do some selective buying.

My water cool rigs consists of

Swiftech D5 Vario pump
Swiftech mini res
Swiftech rad mount
Danger Den cpu block
Tyron 7/16" tubing
4 x 120mm xilence fans
Swiftech 120.2 rad

Total cost £90 inc VAT and postage

Throw in fuzion gpu block for £25 and I have cpu and gpu cooled for £115.

For £130+ vat you can build a decent kit new as follows:

XSPC X2O Delta £21.99 or d-tek fuzion v2 £34.99
Laing DDC-1 £39.99
Alphacool double rad £24.99
Swiftech Micro res £8.99
2m Masterkeer 7/16" tubing £2.58
4 x Yate Loons £15.96

Total cost under £130+ VAT even with the d-tek fuzion.

You could spend another £20 and get the Thermochill PA120.2 And still be around budget.

It bugs me when people say you can't do decent watercooling unless you spend hundreds.

Yes, you could spend another £100 and have your cpu temps drop another one or two degrees but would you notice the difference?

That would be a very, very good watercooling setup.
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Yes I was going to suggest MM but being as tho the OP clearly doesnt have enough posts to access it there wasnt a lot of point. (same as me :))
 
I think I'll stick with air for now, maybe watercool later but thanks for the advice. But could you please answer my question in my previous post, I just want to make sure. Thanks a lot mate.
 
Yes the only diffence between the 2 is the led fan.

You could drop the cpu down to a q6600 and then you get build a very good watercooling system.
 
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