Watercooling Guide, and additional questions

[Chronictank]

I guess its time to bite the bullet (against my better judgement, it may seem a archaeic attitude but the idea of water going around inside a electrical applicance never really appealed to me), and go water cooling.

I found this guide
http://www.overclock.net/overclock.php?file=articles/water-cooling-guide.htm
and
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=71321

But im still missing bits of info after a couple of searches on the forums;
1) What is the difference in running costs (i.e electricity etc) in comparison to air
2) What are the traps i should look out for?
3) What happens if the water leaks? does everything go boom despite using distilled water?
I was looking at http://www.integrity-pc.com/fluidxp.cfm which claims to not short the system in the event of a leak
4) How big does the resevoir need to be?

and last but not least, is it really worth swapping to water cooling over air? Is the cost/gain worth it as watercooling rigs are by no means cheap

A sticky for us watercooling noobs would be great

 

[Chronictank]

To answer in reverse, there is a sticky unfortunately it's no longer stickied

You can find it here

It will probably answer your other questions too.

tnx will have a read

 

[Chronictank]

ok all the other questions are answered in the other thread, apart from

1) What is the difference in running costs (i.e electricity etc) in comparison to air

 

[Chronictank]

i had a friend who made his own phase change kit and his electric bills went through the roof so it made me a little paranoid ><

thanks for the quick replies