I'm quite inexperienced with water cooling having only done it a few times (on my aopen board and on video cards), so I need help choosing a water block for my LGA775 board. I have everything else, I even have 2 water blocks but ones for a S478 board and ones for an X800 video card.

Thanks, Chris.

PS I'm far too lazy to read reviews.

well I'm certainly not the expert on this, but all of the danger den blocks I have owned have been excellent. I owned several maze4s back in the athlon xp/p4 days, and they always did well. I recently bought a socket 775 TDX block and I've been enjoying it for the past few weeks.

Edit: I did a little reading for you....I was supposed to be studying but that was more interesting. It seems that the Danger Den TDX and RBX are widely considered to be among the best. The swiftech storm, which I personally am not familiar with, is supposed to be really good too. The Swiftech apogee series blocks are also popular, but seems to be inferior in quality and temps to both of the DD blocks from the tests that I have seen/articles I read. The apogee GT has mixed reviews, it seems it really depends on the type of cpu used and the flow of the system.

Thanks for the input... Does anyone know if Swiftech Storm G4's can still hold there own? I could probably acquire one. I probably need a new quiet pump aswell.

If you do get the Storm G4, I'd reccomend this pump.
Swiftech MCP655™ 12v Water Pump w/ 3/8" Conversion Kit (317 GPH) - FrozenCPU.com

Mostly because a friend of mine has it and its been giving him no problems.
Also heres a review on the swiftech storm even though you dont want to read
PC Modding Malaysia: content / swiftech storm g4 water block review

The fact is almost all the newest models, whether it be from DD, Swiftech, Aquaextreme, D-tek, etc... perform well. I would steer away from the older impingement blocks designed for smaller-die, single CPUs, like the TDX and Storm because you'll get uneven cooling (possibly leading to a lower overclock) on a multi-core CPU, and stick with a pin-fin block, like the Apogee, MP-05, or FuZion, etc... It's gotten to the point where any one of them probably won't have a noticeable performance difference.

I agree with Anon, stay away from the older impingement blocks. If you would like to stay with DD they are releasing a maze 5 cpu block soon, which is designed for multi die cpu's.

Thanks guys. I'm thinking Swiftech Apogee GTX.

I like my apogee it performs good, has good flow... Only reason i would goto teh GTX if your not running more than the CPU, if your doing say a SLI config, the extra flow could be helpful down the line.

Yah second on the Apogee mine works great...I also have their 7800GTX block and their chipset block, keeps everything nice and cool

Ordered the GTX now... Should be here next week, and I'll set everything up next weekend probably. The GTX and GT were the same price so I thought, what-the-hell.

Man i wish i would of seen this a while ago, Man i got a bran new GTX 240Mm rad "red" And bran new DD 775 Block and Bran new DD-5 Pump, Never opened everthings just sitting here and i got like 14 feet of 1/2" red uv tubing that i havnt used eaither! And i have a bran new 8800GTS DD block never used!



I might be listing after i setup my acc with paypal and stuff, If somone is in need and dont care that i dont have paypal, Ive been here since 2003, Ill sell to somone i trust on here and send the part out first!


Matt