Which watercooling to get?

TheGodfather

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I am confused right now i read reviews on both products and dont know which one to choose i plan overclocking an x2 4400 to 2.8ghz

ZALMAN RESERATOR 1 Plus
or
KOOLANCE EXOS-2 EX2-750BK

Any advice?Or mabye if you know another watercooling system that is good please give the name
 
I prefer Thermaltakes BigWater 745 system. I have it and believe it to be of excellent quality and design. You get a single plus a dual core radiator with 3 - 120mm fans and a good water pump.
I am only using it with the dual core radiators, and am not using the additional single core radiator, and it keeps my Opteron 175 overclocked to 2.64GHz cool and under 49C during heavy loads.
Also it only costs $160 complete.
 
yea i know but you know what my frend he has it and the thing hapend that it leaked and his whole gaming rig said BYE BYE to him.

So i rather stick with some others and what do you think about the once i chose?

and one more thing could i add a radiator to one of those to make the watercooling more powerful and if i can please tell me how ?
 
kits are generally to be avoided due to their high price and low performance. but if you indeed need a kit, go for the swiftech h2o kits with the dual radiator and the apogee
 
What components are you planning to water cooling? Cpu and N/B? Graphics card(s)? Rule of thumb if you want to overclock your cpu then you need to cool the CPU and the N/B (north bridge) for stability. There are many kits out there, and depending on how high are you planning on overclocking your system also depends on what kit to buy otherwise you'd be paying extra for nothing.

As for the kits. Well kits are sets of water cooling components that you can buy as one. Most kits usually involves a pump, reservior, tubes, radiator, cpu water block and gpu water block. While some less expensive kits would only have a cpu water block along with other components.

The Zalman Reserator 1 Plus is a good water cooling for it runs quite. It can do a great job cooling the cpu but overclocking wise I wouldn't recommend this to you for it is a passive water cooling. What I mean by passive is that, it only cools the water with it giant heatsink reservior. Overclocking involves lots of heat on the CPU and N/B so it needs to be cooled faster that it can produce those heat.


The KOOLANCE EXOS-2 EX2-750BK would be a good choice for overclocking however for the price it doesn't include a cpu and nb water block. Pretty much you will be paying for the fancy looks and LCD display which does not help cooling at all.

This is what I would recommend to you. A Swiftech H20-APEX "ULTRA" Series Liquid Cooling Kit would be a good choice. You can get this at FrozenCpu.com for $260 and then get a N/B water block for $30 and your pretty much set for $290 cooling kit.







This is one great water cooling kit. It has the best industrial grade water pump and runs quite as well. Large tubings for better water flow and 2 120mm radiators for better cooling. You can't go wrong with kit.
 
yes i been looking at the asetek brand but i found the one your talking about but much better but it could be overprices but if the results are going to be great then i will spend those 440 bucks..

Its Asetek waterchill extreme KT12A-12VX the results are pretty good 26 c at idle and i thing 28 c on load

Is it worth the money is it that good that it costs 440 bucks?
 
northbridge/chipset waterblock = useless

and have you seen teh design for the swiftech mcw30 one? it doesn't have a design!!

its a flat copper base -_-

cooling your chipset does NOTHING to your OC