Looking to do some upgrades to celebrate end of A levels and what not, so I'm getting a new case to replace my rather sad looking no name brand thing, most likely with the Phanteks Enthoo Midi.
Which leads me onto watercooling since the case it made for it, I seem to have lost the silicon lottery, and have an i5 3570k that runs perfectly at stock speeds, then as soon as I bump the speed up to 3.7GHZ+ at stock volts it hits 40 or so at idle, despite having a decent cooler that could get my old Phenom X4 up to silly speeds. I've been debating a big AIO, but then I noticed the custom loop bundles OCUK has for slightly more money, which would then give the possibility to add a GPU block ect.
The obvious alternative would be getting all the bits for a loop separately, although I'm struggling to A) Make something equal to the XSPC kit linked below for similar money, and B) make sure I;ve got everything that will be compatible.
So in essence, what would you guys recommend? Here are the bits I'm looking at..
YOUR BASKET
1 x XSPC RayStorm 750 EX360 WaterCooling Kit £144.95
1 x NZXT KRAKEN X60 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 280mm £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060014-WW) £91.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Enthusiast Case with Window £89.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
Total : £540.41 (includes shipping : £11.25).
Which leads me onto watercooling since the case it made for it, I seem to have lost the silicon lottery, and have an i5 3570k that runs perfectly at stock speeds, then as soon as I bump the speed up to 3.7GHZ+ at stock volts it hits 40 or so at idle, despite having a decent cooler that could get my old Phenom X4 up to silly speeds. I've been debating a big AIO, but then I noticed the custom loop bundles OCUK has for slightly more money, which would then give the possibility to add a GPU block ect.
The obvious alternative would be getting all the bits for a loop separately, although I'm struggling to A) Make something equal to the XSPC kit linked below for similar money, and B) make sure I;ve got everything that will be compatible.
So in essence, what would you guys recommend? Here are the bits I'm looking at..
YOUR BASKET
1 x XSPC RayStorm 750 EX360 WaterCooling Kit £144.95
1 x NZXT KRAKEN X60 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 280mm £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060014-WW) £91.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Enthusiast Case with Window £89.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
Total : £540.41 (includes shipping : £11.25).