Thermaltake CL-W0005

[Leris]

im thinking about getting a water cooling system .. i have a P4 2.8 Prescott and was looking around the forums and found Thermaltake CL-W0005 BigWater 12CM Liquid Cooling System and was wondering if this would be a good one

 

[shawnlizzle =]]

no, unless you want to throw money in the trash.

build your own, or throw more money in the trash for a better kit, but for god sakes, not the big water.



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[Leris]

ok then what is the best air cooler on the market now ?

 

[scottchen]

Best air is XP120 made by thermalright.

For simple kits look for ones made by Swiftech, very high quality and great performance, a bit overpriced, it's for people who doesn't feel like salvaging parts from junkyards and walmart.

 

[shawnlizzle =]]

don't jump straight to air now, there's more water cooling options than just kits, here i'll give u a basic setup.

lain d4(new revision)
DD rbx (or swifttech 6000)
DD maze 4 (for gfx card)
tygon tubing
120.2 heatercore
2 100cfm+ fans
some kind of resevoir
water wetter

basic setup, very good performance



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[scottchen]

I prefer to get everything swiftech, because they design them with future upgrade in mind, you can always keep using your waterblock with a simple adaptor. DD on the otherhand requires top replacement which costs 2x more.

 

[shawnlizzle =]]

your right on that point, but the RBX skeets all over the swiftechs with enough flow (especially with the accelerator nozzles). the future upgradability is not that big of a deal because people usually get stuck with teh same socket for awhile...

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[scottchen]

Well my watercooling has been through SocketA, Socket478, Socket754, now Socket939 and the cpu part's retired because i've got Prometeia now, BTW i had a very cheap and crappy waterblock the Zalman ZM-WB2, but with peltier chilled water, that didn't matter😀

The performance difference is very small between the RBX and MCW6002, and setting up RBX is a mess with all the y adaptors. I really like Swiftech's peltier products, they're of very high quality, in fact the peltiers they use are top notch and rarely ever malfunctions. So if you don't mind doing a little insulation work and have huge radiators, you could look into those, they can lower your temps as far as 20C below ambient temperature.

 

[scottchen]

I don't know about that block, if you're going to use it, you'd better have nothing else connected to that same pump, because the water resistent is FAR too high.