would upgrading to water cooling help my rig?

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I am currently using a GerminII M4 heatsink and a 120mm exhaust fan to cool my gaming rig. The cpu stays between 38-61C for idle and maximum load temperatures. My graphics card, having no ventilation, gets up to 75C. I was looking at a Cooler Master Seidon 120V water cooling kit to try to combat some higher load temperatures, and keep my rig cool when I overclock my cpu and gpu in the near future, but I wasn't sure a cheap water cooling kit would help very much. I only have 2 fan plug-ins on my motherboard, and I could use an intake fan to help with my graphics card temps. My case also can't hold anymore than a 120mm exhaust fan, so the bigger, more powerful coolers wont help me. I was wondering if a simple water cooler like the Cooler Master Seidon 120V would be much of an upgrade to my current cooling system.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
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38 is higher than my OC'ed idle CPU but it's still reasonable. It really sounds like a better case would be just as good a decision as a water cooling solution. One thing you might do is go on pcpartpicker.com and verify that your case and the model water cooler you are thinking of are compatible. Some cases are set up for water cooling and some aren't. The Seidon is one of the better coolers out there. You can get a cheap larger tower with more than once exhaust fan and have a lower temperature for your entire rig than just the CPU, especially since you mentioned there is no ventilation. Any kind of gaming rig IMO should have negative pressure, which means that air is being pulled out of the case faster than cool air is coming into it...
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38 is higher than my OC'ed idle CPU but it's still reasonable. It really sounds like a better case would be just as good a decision as a water cooling solution. One thing you might do is go on pcpartpicker.com and verify that your case and the model water cooler you are thinking of are compatible. Some cases are set up for water cooling and some aren't. The Seidon is one of the better coolers out there. You can get a cheap larger tower with more than once exhaust fan and have a lower temperature for your entire rig than just the CPU, especially since you mentioned there is no ventilation. Any kind of gaming rig IMO should have negative pressure, which means that air is being pulled out of the case faster than cool air is coming into it. The Seidon would definitely make a difference to your CPU if your case will work with it, but it won't help the interior of your rig temp any.

Check out some good articles on cases. I know the Enthoo Pro (which is what I have) has a fan controller hub on the case. You just plug all your chassis fans into the hub and then plug one connector to your mobo. Hubs can be a good way to use as many fans as you need.

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I tried looking into adapters and such for fan ports, but didn't find anything. I didn't know cases came with things like that. Unfortunately, I probably won't go out and purchase another case, because while this one is probably partially the heating issue, ive spent more money then i'd ever hope to on this rig already and I really can't afford to drop another $120 for a nice case and water cooler. If I can get a decent water cooler to act as an exhaust fan, I can use my other fan port for an intake fan, and probably cool off the graphics card some. I mostly just needed to know if the water cooler would help some. I'll probably look into one slightly better, like the nzxt g10 that kunthakenthe mentioned. Thanks for the help!
 
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