Watercooling system

khearts · 17 Mar 2008 at 16:05

Hi,

Ive been asking around because Im building a new pc, or getting someone to do it for me, with the overclocking and water cooling.

I think Ill be getting a q6600 energy efficient, not sure on motherboard yet and a 8800gtx, 8gb of ram, couple of tb of hdd.

My last pc, I got a zalman reserator.
Now Im wondering, I want to best temps and will be cooling, cpu, graphic card and motherboard. Shall I buy the new zalman reserator? I still have my old one so I can also use that I guess.
Or shall I go for something different?
I dont know what is good but I have to buy all the parts or all in one, so what do you guys recommend for quietness and best cooling?

Thanks guys

shadowscotland · 17 Mar 2008 at 17:13

Do you really need a quad?

If gaming - stick with duel and your reserator (newer blocks required maybe)
If doing pro audio/images go quad

All the desktop quads will push a fanless reserator to it's limit at 100% load on all cores so active watercooling with low speed fans is the way to go for a quiet highly clocked quad.

of if just a reasonable OC required see here

khearts · 17 Mar 2008 at 18:26

I do image work, and have a lot of stuff running at the same time.

So the zalman reserator is the way to go? Is it the quietess watercooler, anything recommended?

Thanks for the help

shadowscotland · 17 Mar 2008 at 21:03

not used or heard the Res xt myself - it's quiet possable a high quality rad and fans at 7v or below will be quieter. You will need to swap the cpu block for a better one - EQ supreme for example.

Personally I only have the one 900rpm fan (psu) myself, but my setup is not dealing with a quad.