I am a newbie to liquid cooling, and I'm looking for the best setup within a reasonable price range ($100-$200) I would prefer to buy a complete kit (CPU, Northbridge, GPU and Possibly HDD). Can someone help to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!

yea I'd like to know about that too.

For GPU , CPU and NB it could be near 300-500$

Thats getting a little bit higher in price than I would like to spend, what about if I left the NB out, and just did CPU and GPU? Most of the kits that I can find only do CPU, and I would really like to liquid cool the GPU also.

Danger Den is a good way to go. If you want something good, plan to spend about 300 dollars. You really don't want to cheap out because at that point you could just go with high end air cooling.

Quote: Originally Posted by Romeo21779 Danger Den is a good way to go. If you want something good, plan to spend about 300 dollars. You really don't want to cheap out because at that point you could just go with high end air cooling.

Agreed
As a rule of thumb, kits like the thermaltake, coolermaster ones etc. generally aren't up to the performance of a good air cooling solution like the Noctua coolers (as an example)

Danger Den, Swiftech, D-Tek, Alphacool, Asetek, Koolance and Innovatek kits would be an ideal place to see what you'd expect to pay for something that will actually perform better than good air cooling. (go click on the Frozen CPU banner at the top of the page and check their water cooling kits out for a rough idea on prices)

Personally, my "bottom of the barrel" starting point would be something like the Corsair Nautilus kit (CPU only though) if that is of any help.

Not trying to discourage you - just making sure that you don't waste your money

Id chooce one of the mid priced kits on frozencpu.com, best and not crazy high priced.

Whats the specs of the rig you what to cool?
If its like a Quad core and a 8800 Series video card, I would suggest 2 loops. Thats what Im doing and its going to cost 500$ when it all done.

A nice TDX block (50$), a half decent pump (40-90$) and a dual 120mm rad (40-60$) with about 5-10 ft of tubing (10-20$) and around 30oz of fluid(10-30$) being a t-line setup with adapters shipped will be around 200-250$, and thats a half decent CPU water cooling loop.

GPU's for about 80$ more, a little more tubing, and maybe throw a res in the loop for 20$ more, you're looking at 300$ minumum. Although the resivoir is unessesary, (read some guide around here, you don't need it) it helps out the W/C newbs into getting it to work.

The price climbs even more when you have a dual CPU rig.

Last time I looked into it, I would be well over 300 to cool 2 cpus and a northbridge. Water cooling isn't cheap if you want something that will perform.

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Theres the kit I have on my CPU ATM. Its a good starter for just a cpu.

Quote: Originally Posted by killert Whats the specs of the rig you what to cool? If its like a Quad core and a 8800 Series video card, I would suggest 2 loops. Thats what Im doing and its going to cost 500$ when it all done.

The Specs of the Rig:

Pentium D 3.0 Presler (Stock Cooler)
Gigabyte GA-8I945GZME-RH Mobo
1GB DDR2 Dual Channel (512x2)
EVGA NVidia 8600GT
2x 80GB Segate Barracuda's SATA2
Lite-On DVD-RW DL + Lightscribe


Thanks guys, for all your help!

Quote: Originally Posted by datalis The Specs of the Rig: Pentium D 3.0 Presler (Stock Cooler) Gigabyte GA-8I945GZME-RH Mobo 1GB DDR2 Dual Channel (512x2) EVGA NVidia 8600GT 2x 80GB Segate Barracuda's SATA2 Lite-On DVD-RW DL + Lightscribe Thanks guys, for all your help!

you only need to cool that 'D' that NB and 8600GT isn't going to get that hot, and unless you want to overclock the hell out of it, you could get away with buy the thermalright extreme and a couple silent fans and you'd be good.

Pentium 'D's were quoted as the hottest CPU out there, they be on fire. W/C would be sggestive, but you would abosolutly need some good stuff.

Well I've already decided that I'm going to have to switch out the Gigabyte mobo for something different, because im almost sure it dosen't support oc'ing, it has only the VERY basic settings avalible for change in the BIOS. And I've noticed that my CPU generates a lot of heat, I had the heat problem on my oc'ed P4 2.8 HT, and the only way I could keep it cool was with a higer end Thermaltake cooler that sounded like a jet engine when turned all the way up. And I'm trying to avoid all the extra sound effects with my new rig.

I just read this on VR-Zone, looks like a pretty sweet starter kit. It owns the Scythe Infinity. (Didn't see the price though).
VR-Zone : Technology Beats - Swiftech H20-120 Compact Water-Cooling Kit

i Would suggest a Swiftech block back by a good pump and a dual 120 radiator. you could get into that for probably about 200 to 250.00 and have a setup to cool that furnace down.