Watercooling Noob

[realscot]

Seeing all these great overclocks with Conroe's under water is making me itch to buy a water cooling kit.
Thing is, i've never done it before, and i'd like to practice first.
I have an older S939 3000+ venice and an asus a8n sli board sitting here doing nothing so rather than stick it on the MM and make pence, i'd like to try watercooling it just to see what it's capable of. I had it to 2.7 on air before temps became a concern. Wasn't brave enough to try too much volts. But now i'm not really caring, i just want to practice watercooling before I do my C2D machine.
What's a good cheap watercooling kit to cool just the S939 CPU? OCUK only seem to stock kits over £100 min. I saw a Thermaltake kit on an auction site for £65, thats more my price range since it's just for practice. It was one of those thermaltake bigwater kits. Bear in mind it doesn't have to be the best, just better than air.
I'll wait till after xmas is over and fork out a few hundred on a top notch S775 set for the conroe.

 

[w3bbo]

I started watercooling with the Bigwater SE. As far as watercooling goes its near bottom of the pile performance wise but it is a good introduction into how it works as you get everything you need in one box with decent instructions on how to setup.

Having said that you will have to remember that it will only be on a par or slightly better than high end cooling - no more and it wouldn't be a fair comparison on what a decent H20 setup is capable of. It would also be a waste of money as you will be wanting to upgrade it and would have been much better putting the money towards a decent kit in the first place. Save up and do yourself and your wallet a favour and buy the swiftech Apex ultra kit - the best WC kit available for WC noobs and experts alike.