help for a first time water cooler

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I have a Athlon 3200+ on a GA-7N400 pro2 mother board with a Radon 9800 graphics card and I am looking to get water-cooling to cover CPU, GPU and front side chips. All of the kit is running at standard speeds and I just want to get a quite pc.

My questions are:
Will all the be able to be cooled with one 120mm radiator?
Is it best to buy a kit or seperate componants?
I am looking to do this cheep as is possible so what kits/componants would people recommend and where to buy from?
How hard is it to put together and bleed a system?

Thank you, James
 
Will all the be able to be cooled with one 120mm radiator?
at a push... you would be a lot better with a 120.2 ( thats a double 120mm fan rad)your talking 3 blocks there including a chipset which a single rad would struggle with.
if your chipset is passivly cooled i wouldnt bother WCing it tbh. just more flow restriction to deal with

Is it best to buy a kit or seperate componants?
build your own rig ! the kits are good but offer little scope for upgrading. you will get more bang for buck buying seperate parts. PLUS its more fun and better foer learnimg

I am looking to do this cheep as is possible so what kits/componants would people recommend and where to buy from?

thats a risky question... my answer will stick as OCUK and the MM ( members market), and doing it *cheap* will result in probobly worse cooling. for the sae of an extra few quid here and there you can build an excelent rig !
my advice is resaerch it first ( like your doing now :P ) and buy a componnent every couple of weeks to spread the cost out ;)
How hard is it to put together and bleed a system?

as long as you take your time its fairly easy.

read the watercooling sticky and LOOK AT THE GALLERY ! theres tons of inspiration / discussion in there
what case do you have ?
 
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oblique said:
what / where is the members market?
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its a part of tjhe forum where members can post FOR SALE and WANTED ads... im not sure if you will have access to it being new to the forum though... just realised that was your first post.
 
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