air or water...

johnno

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stuck between these two..

Alphacool Cool Answer II 120 Watercooling Kit (WC-001-AC)

or

Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY)
with
YS-TECH FD1238 120mm Fan - 4 Pin (FG-004-YS) .

which would give the better coolling option for my amd athlon 3800+x2 clocked @ 2.5ghz
 
Not the greatest water-cooling kit - poor pump, small-bore tubing - but cheap. It will almost certainly cool better than the Scythe and much more quietly if you're planning on using that YS-TECH fan with the Scythe.

I would recommend spending more though on a better water-cooling kit with the Swiftech H20-120 Premium Watercooling Kit (Socket 462/478/LGA775/754/939/940) (WC-015-SW) being much better than either of your options.
 
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yeah good enough for me. thats scythe cooled.
 
There really wouldnt be much in it, Ninja is top performing air cooler, Alphacools answer II is a so so performing water setup.
I'd say go custom h20, works out cheaper than you think.
 
but the main question is would it cool better. it seems to be 50/50 can anyone who has got this kit or knows someone with the alphacool w/c setup tell me if its gd cooling....
 
It all depends on case airflow, if your case has loads of 120mm fans and great airflow get a ninja, if its the opposite get the alphacool wc setup.

a watercooling setup would add more noise to your system as most pumps emit more noise than a low rpm 120mm fan.

In my htpc I use the xp lite block, same rad and small id pipe work, but a ddc pump running at 8volts, also converted it to t-line which made little diff to the temps. so its similar to that alphacool setup. it cant cool as well as my ninja did in my lain li case with all its 120mm case fans.

you cant underestimate the efficiency of modern air cooling solutions.
 
Tetras said:
If it works fine on air you might as well save the pennies and the hassle :)
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I agree with Tetras, air cooling is very effective these days, I would only say go water cooled if you are going for big overclocks.
 
Hesky82 said:
It all depends on case airflow, if your case has loads of 120mm fans and great airflow get a ninja, if its the opposite get the alphacool wc setup.
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i only have two low speed case fans. i dont think airflow is a reason to choose one over the other. indeed the only real reason youd have poor airflow is if you were restricted for space, in which case water cooling probably wouldnt fit in in the first place lol
 
james.miller said:
i only have two low speed case fans. i dont think airflow is a reason to choose one over the other. indeed the only real reason youd have poor airflow is if you were restricted for space, in which case water cooling probably wouldnt fit in in the first place lol
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Yes and no, from my experience the better case airflow you get the more effectively a decent cpu cooler can cool.
in the case of my htpc system my silverstone lc03v case wouldn’t accept large heat pipe coolers such as the ninja, zalman 9500, thermalright 120 and I doubt I would have got decent results even if I managed to fit one in anyway, its single 80mm case fan simply gave near zero airflow. Even though the case had no space I managed to fit a t-line wc set-up in there no problem. Thanks to modern tiny high flow pumps and flexible small id pipe work it’s pretty damn easy to fit one in, externally mount the rad and you can get great results.
 
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