8800 GTX for fan-cooled box today; water-cooled tomorrow?

I originally posted this in the NVIDIA forum, but then realized it might be more appropriate to seek out advice here. To preface, this will be my first attempt at a water-cooling solution. I don't mean to appear to be cross posting -- I just realized after awhile that I might have asked in the wrong forum the first time.


I want to buy an 8800 GTX for my air-cooled AMD64x2 3800+ system today and put the card into the water-cooled system I plan to build in a few months. My question is, what should I buy that will allow that? I know eVGA offers a water cooled 8800 GTX right now, but I don't know if I should buy that as I would then have to spend the money on additional components of the water cooling system before I actually build the end-target machine in a few months. On the other hand, if I buy a standard eVGA card (with the heatsinks and fans and whatever else they come built with these days) for my current air-cooled machine, how would I best implement it into a water-cooled box later? And will I be able to affordable attain the same performance as I would if I used a stock-from-eVGA water-cooled card?!

I'm looking to buy this 8800 GTX in the next 24 hours, frankly. This is just the one aspect I forgot to put time into researching already. Hopefully I'll get some good advice to quickly guide me in the path I should take. Thanks!

You can definitely get a water block later, Danger Den makes the one that BFG uses, and that is the way I'd go. It will be cheaper as well.