Good watercooling kit for around $300?

[frankienyc123]

Im going to be building a new system in the new few months and im planning on going with a liquid cooled q6600. My budget for the water cooling is around $350 or so. Can you guy reccomend a few of the better kits in my price range?? Right now im looking at the Swiftech h20-220Ultra + chipset waterblock. Im not much of a gamer so I dont really need to watercool the video card. Im looking for low noise and good cooling ability, will the Swiftech give me what im looking for or are there any better kits on the market??
thanks

 

[belal]

http://www.koolance.com/

for an external kit the exos-2 works great (It's what I use) or if you're only cooling the cpu, the exos-lt is the smaller version and I'm sure would be more than enough for just a cpu cooler. Flip around their site and you can see the internally mounted ones as well.

 

[T8RR8R]

SWIFTECH!!! The have a 2x120mm Rad setup with the Apogee block and a res for $250, you could toss in a northbridge block too and still be less than $300. Swiftech is VERY good, in fact one of the best price/performance brands out there and there quality is excellent. Just stay away from kits that have 2 reactive metals like copper and aluminum in the same kit.

 

[Rugger]

Almost all kits or homemade WC setups hive two dissimilar metals in them...that is why there are additives to prevent the reaction and resulting corrosion.
Frank: If I was going to buy a kit it would probably one of the Swiftech kits. If I was going for pure quiet/silence, then I would buy individual parts and build it myself.

 

[chuckshissle]

That Swiftech H2-220 kit is the one for you.

 

[Gh0stDrag0n]

Swiftech all the way.

 

[frankienyc123]

Any idea how the Swiftech h20-220 kit performs compared to a good air cooler in terms of noise and cooling ?
thanks

 

[T8RR8R]

Notice that I didn't say dissimilar, I said 2 different reactive metals like copper and aluminum. 2 different metals aren't always bad since gold is just fine with alot of other metals for example.

 

[Rugger]

Noted.

 

[Spanki]

I haven't done extensive WC research, but just in my casual browsing, I see Petra's shop highly recommended everywhere I look. That link will take you to the WC 'kit' page, with multiple options (many appear to be out of stock at the moment though).