Watercooling help

[weirdguy]

no!!! Buy the new gigabyte watercooling kit! Best Bang For your Buck!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835128011

[Frogon]

Yeah, I use ASUS's probe, it came with the motherboard.. though my CPU temp gets up to 55C, and stays there, while playing Unreal Tournament, its not enough for me to spend $200+ on watercooling, though I was thinking more for what rolls around next time : )

[Mobius01010]

I have a Amd64 system, but I read on some review site that watercooling for the case or motherboard or something is impossible, true or false?
AMD64 Athlon 3400+ ~2.2Ghz
Corsair cmx512-3200llpro RAM 512Mb x 2
Seagate 80 Gb Hdd x 2
Vantec Vortex Hdd Cooling system x 2
Quad LED 80mm Fan x 6
ATI Radeon Pro 9800 128
Plextor Plexwriter Premium
Aopen H700b Full Tower
Enermax 600W Power Supply
Chaintech ZNF3-150 Motherboard
Samsung 19' LCD Monitor

[slaveofconvention]

Watercooling a CASE is virtually impossible, and almost as pointless - as for the motherboard, the only thing you can EASILY watercool is the Northbridge chip - this'll be the one with the existing heatsink which has to be removed and replaced with a waterblock. Having said that, unless you have some pretty lofty ideas regarding overclocking, or your northbridge has a big noisy fan on it already (I checked and your motherboard DOES have a fan on the northbridge between the second PCI slot and the floppy/ide slots - is it noisy?), it isn't really worth doing. Generally speaking watercooling is of most use where you need either a drastic drop in noise levels, or want to overclock.

[Spaceroach]

If you want a full kit, Thermaltake has a Bigwater kit that I have seen used in multiple compys that seems to work well and is affordable.

I just got one the other day... not installed yet but I can't wait to. I heard it performs well, and I know firsthand that the waterblock is absolutely gorgeous... just google 'Bigwater' and there are dozens of reviews (if you read reviews). I haven't heard any bad things about it (which is why I chose it - it's a great value at its price to performance ratio).

Unless you're really into overclocking or PC silence though, there's no real reason to watercool. There are lots of funky gigantic heatsink dealies you can get for less than sixty bucks that will keep your stock-clocked CPU nice and cool under load, and you don't have to worry about pumps or fluid levels or installing bloody enormous radiatiors hanging off the back of your machine (the Bigwater's is 120mm, the housing for it is enormous and I am building a new case just to accomodate it). But it if you're doing it for the love of doing it, or are just adamant that you want to give it a try, just do it and more power to ya.

Good luck,
Space Roach