[Razor Blade]

Recently, I noticed that my computers been kinda hot lately. Running HL2 Demo and Doom 3. The temps rise like crazy. I have 3 fans jammed in here, but it already sounds like a 747

Now, I have been looking into over clocking, researching it as much as I can. Sometime in the future I wanna try my go at overclocking my Video Card and CPU. With the new games coming out I can't always play them as I like to - (High res and tons of AA and AF!)

So ... to the point. Soon i'm getting a job and I wanna buy some cooling for my computer. I was looking into water cooling, but I'm still not sure about it. Fans are just too noisy and other options I have seen just seem way too expensive (upwards of $500.00-$1000.00 or higher!)

I want something easy to set up (to the point where it's not gonna take me a week), something easy to manage - water cooling is about as hard as I want it), something that I can actually afford - I'm gonna say $200.00 is my limit (Canadian finds people!) And something that is effective. Hopefully I'm looking for something that can decrease my temperatures by about 20C

I really don't know if this is all possible, but I am asking you's first

Thanks for your help if you can give any. Oh and if you have any other questions i'll be sure to answer fast

 

[eternal11]

zalman is the way to go, almost dead silent, and they started making gpu coolers based off of the cpu hsf coolers that hushy and i have. check them out at: www.zalmanusa.com

 

[D.D.]

I'm currently using a Zalman 7000B AlCu myself (read a review that says it beats the pure copper CU version). However, I do think that water wud be nice. silent is also good. so why not get both by getting a Zalman Reserator. The thing is silent, pretty cool looking to have beside your comp, and its water cooling.

http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx=63&code=021

 

[RF]

Razor check out memoryexpress.com, they have a store in edmonton if you want to make the trip. You can find alot there. Basically what you will want are:

Ram Heatspreaders
Arctic Silver 5
Copper Ramsinks for the Radeon
ATi Silencer 3
Vantec Stealth Fans or some variant...
Superglue

 

[Razor Blade]

Sweet! Thanks you guys. I was looking into the Reserator 1 from Zalman. I hope it can fit under my desk, i'll have to look at the dimensions later.

I'm so glad there's actually a store in Edmonton Reich! For some reason my family dislikes credit cards and online shopping So 99% of the time i'm stuck ordering through a company or not getting my way! :heh:

Thanks again guys. Oh and if you have any other tipc please please give them Anything will help.

 

[Player-X]

check if your MOBO has mounting holes first, some water cooling systems use them to mount thier waterblocks

 

[cooliscool]

Mounting holes are on all S478 boards. All you have to do is take off the retention bracket and use them.

 

[eternal11]

not to mention, installation is tricky because depending on the kit, you're going to have to slather all this goop in your socket and on your cpu to prevent condensation

 

[cooliscool]

Yeah. I'm not up to smothering my CPU and board in thermal grease.

 

[Player-X]

Don't worry as long as no part goes below ait tempreture you don't have to, he is using conventional air cooling anyway so that won't be a problem