Cheap watercooling effective?

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hey guys. pay day soon :)

Want to cool down my cpu, currently idling at 44, can go up to 58 on load. Using an AF7 pr0, thinking about watercooling, but is it possible to get a drop of 10 ish degrees with a cheapo watercooling setup like the swiftech? Or is it more advisable to just wack a quality heatsink like the thermalright or tuniq and save 40 quid?

thanks
 
Dou you mean This? Diddn't Swiftech do something wrong with mixing aluminium and copper causing a battery-like acid being produced... It was in a thread a while back. Tbh I wouldnt trust them BUT that is cheap. Hmmmmmmmm... I would still go for high end air though. If you increased your budget though and went custom of course it would be WAY better than that.

Edit: Found it HERE
 
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Cheap water is not much better than good air and way more inconvenient. Water makes working on the system a royal PITA but good water allows lower temps and quieter cooling.
 
Id either buy a good air cooler such as the new Xig or TRUE or go the whole way with watercooling.
Personally wouldnt bother with a cheap WC kit
 
If you are only watercooling for the performance gain - you may be better served getting a better processor / video card. If however, you want a challenge the dive in :)
 
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If you are only watercooling for the performance gain - you may be better served getting a better processor / video card. If however, you want a challenge the dive in :)
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A better cpu than the E8400? Which would that be then? lol

I think you guys have answered my question here... Unless I spend 120+ on a custom setup I'm not gonna see a massive decrease in temps compared with say a tuniq tower.
 
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A better cpu than the E8400? Which would that be then? lol
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any 45nm intel quad core or IMO even the Q6600 is better. gaming bla bla bla these high end processors have little to no difference in gaming and quads have far more uses.. unless you want to clock it really high and then post benches of how cool its running, which IMO is just a bit over the top..

dont change your cpu though its fast enough

but about watercooling, i think people are using it really ineffective even the high end systems which is one of the reasons i chose against it, ie no-one tells me the temperature of the water, and ive seen no-one that has a small cheap cooler which keeps the water at let say 20 degrees. on top of that people have small res instead of as big as possible.

id like to have a water cooling but to replace the rad with a fridge type cooler to keep it below 25 or so, therefore regardless of external temp its allways the exact same...
 
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there's only so much water can do for you, as the ambient gets up to the high 20s you idle is going to be in the mid to high 30s no mater what you do. Load temps are what you want to be watching.
 
I have that watercooler and I can say I DO NOT RECCOMEND IT.

I've since switched back to my Arctic freezer 7 pro. The watercooler was very noisy, the pump generated a continual drone that I could not dampen any way, I couldnt bare it, I could ALWAYS hear it. Its better to have a nice air cooler spinning slower, with good case airflow to back it up, now I can SLEEP
 
Swiftech H20 120 had it since it came out. Installed it, filled it up and left it in the loft. Its hot up there, haven't touched it since.

Runs my G0 Q6600 at 100% CPU @ 3.4Ghz 24/7

This is it now, with the ambient temp probably close to 30 in the loft.

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