Liquid CPU cooling options?

[blacklist]

I want to OC my 920, and I am interested in the Thermaltake CL-W0169 BigWater 780e. I wanted to find out if there was something cheaper or more effective. I will continue searching the forums here, but I wanted to ask anyway.

thanks for the help

 

[groo]

complete water cooling systems are over priced and underperform.

there are better places to ask about liquid cooling than new system builds.

 

[Shadow703793]

^+1. DO NOT BUT THE Thermaltake kit. It's cr@p:

I'll steer you to some more technical links, please spend a few days (DAYS) reading posts, searching, learning. Don't forget to look for your case with WC. Google your case and the word water-cool or some combination of that. WC stuff is larger than you think, I know from experience. WC setups done right are awesome and almost silent.

Great place, not wayyy over the top with uber WC guys.
http://www.ocforums.com/index.php
Uber place, owned by one of the worlds winning OC guys in the world. Not a place to post or ask questions by noobs, but an awesome place to learn.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/
Another good place to learn
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooling/
The best link to explain what parts you’ll need
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t282232.html

Great places to buy WC stuff
http://www.dangerden.com/index.php [...] e&Itemid=1
http://www.petrastechshop.com/
http://www.jab-tech.com/

 

[IH8U]

^+1 however you forgot a very good site: http://www.frozencpu.com/
Swiftech, and DangerDen are some of the names to look into, also if you are just cooling the CPU 3/8" tubing is the way to go.

 

[mamw93]

How far you overclock will determine, in a small way, your cooling system. Some people don't like the BigWater 760i but I love it, it only needs 2 5.25" drives to store everything. It'll cool CPU and GPU fine but since it's compact it won't have a HUGE radiator, which makes it a little less effective. My 760i got my CPU on idle an average of 12-15 degrees cooler. But I didn't overclock that hard, (Q6600 to 3gHz.) If your going hard core get the Zalman Reserator 1 V2. It has an enormous radiator and I have heard of it getting a CPU on idle 25 degrees cooler, in some instances, than a heat sink and fan.