Water Cooling System Recommendation

PR3DAT0R

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Here is my current setup:
Case: Antec p180B
CPU: Opteron 185
CPU Cooling: Thermalright Ultra-120
GPU: e-vga 8800 GTX Superclocked
Hard Drives: 2x Western Digital Caviar 160GB Raid 0
Mobo: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
PSU: SeaSonic M12-700 700w
Sound Card: X-fi Fatal1ty
Ram: 1GB (2 x 512MB) Geil PC-4400 DDR-550
and 5 Nexus D12SL-12 120mm Fans at 7v.

Before the 8800 i was running a 7600 gs passively cooled and my cpu would idle around 35C and this system was 100% inaudible. The HOT AS HELL 8800 totally messed with my setup and now it idles around 45-50C I have to run it with the side cover off just to keep it under 45C. These results leave me to believe that I need to turn to water cooling. The most important thing to me is that this system be totally quiet and run at a decent idle temperature.

So what would be your recommendations for a water cooling system for under $200? I also plan on buying a second 8800 late this summer so if there is a system that you could recommend that would be able cool 2 8800s that would be great.
Thanks in Advance,
PR3DAT0R
 
An idle temp of 45C with and OC 8800 is pretty good but when you add another 8800 you’ll see the idle temp go to 70C. I know because that’s what happen with mine so that’s when I water cooled. If I were you I’d get another Gig of ram and you will see a big improvement in performance. 8)