my beautiful upgrade

[Sgt.Igneri]

OH GOD NO!!! The aquarius 2 got terrible reviews, the zalman 7000-Cu will cool several degrees cooler. People had a lot of leaks and had to mod it in order to work.

 

[rootbin]

heh, yeah, about 30 minutes after i posted that i changed my mind. i'm buying a much better quality liquid cooling system.

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

I personally wouldnt get water cooling. Too many accidents happen with it. Theres always leaks and crap. I would constantly be worrying that it will spring a leak at any given moment. Just get a zalman 7000-Cu and youll be fine, trust me. The 3.0C isnt even a good OCer man, you dont need any water cooling when not OCing. I bet you get it at 3.4ghz with anything, except for vapochill. Anything higher on a 3.0C wouldnt be stable.

 

[ShinRa]

Igneri's right. Don't waste your money. The Xaser III fan's are more than what you need. Think about it, doesn't matter if they were 10cfm, there's SEVEN of them. And they aren't, I hear they're each around 30cfm, and with 7 that's a goddamn nice ass air flow. I'll tell you in a few days when my Xaser III arrives.

 

[rootbin]

yeah, they are 37cfm at 30dB each. should be pretty nice. i'm still looking over pros/cons of water vs a zalman or something. i'm also getting the sapphire radeon 9800pro ultimate, which has a gargantuan heatsink. with the combined power of that huge chunk of metal and the 7 fans, i will overclock my radeon 9800pro to beautiful speeds

i'll find the best gfx card/processor/heat ratio (as far as oc'ing goes) that works for me, and stick with that. sure, i can't get much over 3.4ghz, but 3.4 is better than 3.0 probably about a 8-10fps difference.

i'll be one of the few that runs half-life 2 at 150fps

 

[ShinRa]

3.4 isn't actually altogehter better. Your better off going to 1000mhz fsb instead of the xtra 400mhz.