water cooling - how much does it cost and what do i need?

[skippo]

Hi,

The heat generated by my pc is relatively high, and I fancy overclocking in due course, therefore temperature are likely to get even higher. Also I seem to have accumulated over 9 fans in my pc which all make considerable amounts of noise which annoys me! Therefore I believe that a water cooling solution would come in handy.

Therefore I am wondering what I would need to buy and how much it would all cost; here's my spec that all needs water cooling.

Coolermaster RC-1000
Striker II Extreme
QX9650
2 x 8800 GTX OC2

(I would prefer an all inside system, whereby the radiator is in the pc rather than an external one.) I have 3 free 5.25" drive bays.

thanks,

 

[skippo]

What you don't need to ask and what is freely available info is what fans are best, what fluids are best, is there any difference with 1/2", 7/16 or 3/8" tubing, how do I leak test etc etc.

What fluids are best??
Tubes - what are tubes?
And leak testing - arhhhhhhhhh


lol. jokes.

Yeah, maybe this post was a tad lazy on my behalf. I'll do a bit of research now, and report back as soon as I have done.

cheers

 

[skippo]

30 views at this point and I'm the first reply. There's a reason for that.

Here's a good post:

"I'm looking at water-cooling. I've read the sticky, looked through the gallery and identified where I can put a radiator in my case. I'm thinking of getting:

blah block
blah gpu blocks
blah radiator
blah pump
blah fans
blah tubing

what do you all think?"

We like these ones. It shows the poster has done some work, put in a little effort. Researched what they want to do and decided what they can do.

Just wanted you to know why you may not have had a rush of responses.

I see where you are coming from, however when the sticky is about 100 pages long, you kind of get put off somewhat?? don't you? But you'll say if you wanna water cool - you've gotta read it! lol

Also, this is regarding stikies in general, they are often highly out of date, aren't they? Although the methods are the same most often, the products aren't, and this is where thay be a little weak you could say?

I'm not having a go at anyone before people jump to conclusions, these forums are v. helpful. I admit, I was lazy on this occurance - i should have product searched before hand - and yes, tackled the sticky!

thanks

 

[skippo]

sticky looks v.informative though!