Aeroflux Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 A few weeks back I did a favor for a friend installing some electronics for his client. He gave me a brand new Armor LCS tower as payment. I thought I was well on my way to WC'ing...until I decided to do some research. I've been searching this forum all day-about twelve hours actually-and found that the cooling part of my tower isn't all that great. I don't intend to overclock anything just yet (I'm a pleeb in WC'ing, OC'ing, even this forum), but I want the capability and the assurance of a quiet and cool system. I'm building a computer for fall semester of college, going into graphic design/3D animation. Although the setup isn't concrete, I'll have a quad-core CPU, a 8800GTX or Ultra, and 4 GB of DDR2 1066 RAM. Eventually I plan to add a Quadro, but later when I need the rendering power. At first I wanted to get everything into the water cooling cycle; CPU, GPU, North/South Bridge, RAM, the works. Now I understand that if I attempt to cool that many components the first thing I need to replace is the pump that comes with the tower. Should I junk the resevoir, radiator and fans as well? I'm willing to spend $400 if it will get a cooling system I can rely on, but there's no sense in throwing away perfectly good equipment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 You could keep the Tt water stuff to cool your NB/SB/RAM and then have something more substantial for the CPU/GPU Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendellrt Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 Get the GTX or GTS, the Ultra is not worth the money. You can get a factory overclocked card at higher speeds for cheaper than the Ultra. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeroflux Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 You could keep the Tt water stuff to cool your NB/SB/RAM and then have something more substantial for the CPU/GPU Should I add an extra radiator and a powerful pump, or have two completely seperate cooling circuits? Get the GTX or GTS, the Ultra is not worth the money. You can get a factory overclocked card at higher speeds for cheaper than the Ultra. Noted...thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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