Water Cooling advice

tmanthebean · 2 Mar 2007 at 17:19

Hi,

Can anyone give me advice on watercooling a conroe E6600/8800gts combination

(Full spec:
Conroe E6600
BFG 8800GTS 320gb
Asus P5B
Geil Cas4 DDR2 2gig
Seagate Barracuda .10 SATA2 500gig
2 dvdr-w drives and a X-Fi soundcard
All in an Artic Cooling T2 Pro case)

I'm not intending to overclock anything but the ram (to bring the cas down) and noise is important. I was thining the Zalman Reserator 2 but I was wondering if anyone had any reservations with this? It'll be my first watercooling project so wouldn't say no to suggestions.

Cheers.

weescott · 2 Mar 2007 at 20:09

Hello and welcome

The Resorator is a good simple solution. It will be fine for a stock setup. It might be a bit on the warm side but fine non the less.

There are other options if you are willing to do the reading, spend a little more time and do some modding. It's up to you though.

arfur · 2 Mar 2007 at 21:19

seems a bit of a waste, I would stick a 40mm on the top of them and stick it on the 3v rail that should suffice,

matt100 · 2 Mar 2007 at 22:20

I think you would struggle to get your cas4 ram to cas3, more to the point it would be almost meaningless in performance terms.

Now if you were going to watercool to get your cpu overclocked and overclock the ram then fine, watercooling is the way to go, probably not the reserator though, either go for a swiftech kit or do some research and go fully custom.

The reserator is good for silence but I'm sure there are similarly quiet air coolers without the hassle.

I'm all about the water so I am going to suggest a swiftech kit or fuly custom and clock the nuts off it.