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none, 100 pounds is a bit of a grey area
Yup, If you were really tight with the budget you could perhaps stretch ~£130, the XSPC RASA RX120 kit isn't too bad for £120.
Personally I'd save up £200+ to start a loop, if you cheap out in the beginning you're only going to end up spending more money replacing parts as you expand the loop.
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When you say loop we're thinking of custom loop, which can only be done for £100 if you go second hand tbh.
h100 is an all-in-one 'water' cooler. Basically just a fancy heatsink. Temps are in the same ballpark as a top-end air heatsink.
h100 pros:
-temps are good (not as good as proper custom)
-opens up the board aesthetically (can see more etc)
-can buy ram with nicer looking heatsinks
h100 cons:
-already more expensive than similarly performing air heatsinks, yet requires purchase of 2 aftermarket fans because the stock ones = jet engine
-reliability of pumps can be an issue
h100 is an all-in-one 'water' cooler. Basically just a fancy heatsink. Temps are in the same ballpark as a top-end air heatsink.
h100 pros:
-temps are good (not as good as proper custom)
-opens up the board aesthetically (can see more etc)
-can buy ram with nicer looking heatsinks
h100 cons:
-already more expensive than similarly performing air heatsinks, yet requires purchase of 2 aftermarket fans because the stock ones = jet engine
-reliability of pumps can be an issue
Lol, bit of an understatement. It took me about 8 months on and off to decide I definitely wanted to do it. Another 3 months to chose and order all the parts and probably a week to pluck up the courage to actually do the watercooling.
That said, with compression fittings, the actual assembly only took about 6 hours (including fitting a gpu block, which took ages because of my ocd and the silly little thermal pads) which was taking my time and re-cabling at the same time. No leaks either during or post assembly.
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Compression fittings are damn secure. Id trust my life hanging off one of those. I don't know why climbers dont use them to scale Everest TBH. They could do it in bitspower style
We must test this! Ill get a net 2x compressions a really solid place to put them in and youll hang from them! Mwhaha. That would be damn epic ^.^
If the place the compression is anchored, i can't see the compression itself ever giving
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but would be funny to see someone holding onto compressions to prove the point they are brilliantly secure.