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

[cronjob]

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!

 

[cronjob]

That's essentially the conclusion I came to this evening. It looks like all the cards are equally overclockable, regardless of if they come stock that way or not - especially if you're going to water cool them. The only difference would appear to then be the hassle of pulling off all the crap that, say, eVGA slaps on the card for stock cooling. Fun times.

And for those who wonder, I'm not so much looking to water cool so I can be uber cool. I plan to overclock the CPU/GPU, but am more concerned with eliminating as much noise as I can design out of it Especially since I currently operate with a lot of hard drives and numerous pass-through fans. Noisey, noisey.

Oh holy crap, forget I even asked. I didn't realize the eVGA that came with stock water cooling sink on it was $800! I think I'd rather spend that extra $220 on something of my own damn choosing. Yikes!

 

[waylander]

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.