Liquid Cooling really worth it?

[Barrybear]

im wanting to get a full system towards september and have pretty much wanted Liquid cooling since my friend got it had a look around and found this http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=273 to me its perfect but looking for opinions. is it really worth that extra £100-£300 to get higher overclocks.
Also any opinions on tube size was looking into 10mm but as it has custom choise nozzles i can change the pipes at a later date if needed different ones for another reason.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Apparently you would be better off getting a custom setup than a koolance setup, it doesnt even say what radiator it uses that i can see.

Thermochill PA 120.x are the best rads for using lower noise fans and cooling more efficiently.

Laing DDC 12v is the best pump etc.

 

[mrthingyx]

It depends what you want.

Watercooling provides two solutions in two different ways: silence, by being able to use passive radiators to achieve a noiseless cooling solution... and higher overclocks, due to the water being able to shift more heat than air.

If you want the highest possible overclock without going to phase (google Prometia/Vapochill LS) cooling, go for water. If yo uwant to silence your PC for good, go water.

These are two of the uses for watercooling, but only if you think through the design properly and take your time over component selection and building. Koolance is generally rubbish as watercooling goes: it does the job to a similar standard to very high-end air-cooling, but that's about it. They're better than they used to be, but there are much, much better kits out there.

I'm a traditional (old?) watercooler, so I'd always go custom and do it all myself without touching kits. But that's my choice and it may not suit others.

 

[Barrybear]

as it stands the current set up im looking at would be a q9450 and a 9800gx2 using asus striker 2 790i, cooling the cpu and gfx card atm maybe get a 2nd card but want to keep options open as new hardware is rumoured for end of summer which is why im waiting until then. The current CPU blocks from koolance are getting very good reviews, as for the system im new to the WC approach so im looknig for something simple that will give me that extra boost. going for quiet but a little noise doesnt bother me as i have been sitting next to a load gfx cards for a long time, but ofc i had to silence them with 3rd party HS/FAN.
TY for the input so far.

 

[mrthingyx]

The block is only a third of the watercooling setup. Whilst the CPU-340 is pretty good by today's standards (pretty difficult to get a rubbish block in this day and age... unless it's made by Thermaltake. , it's seriously overpriced when compared to the Dtek Fuzion.

Then you have the radiator. Thermochill rads are the gold standard at the moment (when haven't they been?): Koolance stuff will work, but there just isn't much comparison. The Swiftech radiator series gets close, but it's still trailing (it is much cheaper than Thermochill hardware, though).

Koolance once provided an almost-acceptable alternative to custom watercooling back when users had to choose between aquarium pumps and decide whether to make their own waterblocks, but the rise of kits from Swiftech, Alphacool, etc. have rendered them almost completely redundant on the performance/ease of use front.

And anyway, doing it yourself would be a much more effective and beneficial learning experience than just slapping a kit into your case. What I'm getting at is that you won't be straight back on here wondering if something has gone wrong when little bubbles form, etc.