I am in the market for a water cooling system, and wanted to know what who makes the more quality parts. I.E. water blocks, pumps, reservoirs, radiators, etc.

I have looked around, and i have seen the parts for sale, but i havent seen any comments or reviews on any of them. I've seen swiftech, ahanix, koolance, and others but i have yet to see how each one of them perform outside of a setup of their own parts. I would like to just use some of the best parts, but i would also like to keep it fairly cheap.

I am currently overclocking, but I would like to do it even more so.

I want to cool my processor (skt 478), my memory (if i can), my video cards, and my motherboard chipset.

I will probably be getting a new video card soon, but i dont know which one yet (probably either a GF4 4600 or a Radeon 9700).

Here's the setup:

400 Watt P/S
Aopen AX4B Pro-533
P4 2.0a (currently at 2.4)
1GB DDR2100
Geforce 3 Ti 200 128MB DDR (at 210/445)
2x 7200RPM 80GB WD Drives
24x CD-RW
16x DVD
And heres my case: (only mine's black, and the front's not blue)

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Ran dum -

We are glad to help you out, however, I am busy at work and lcpiper is out of commission for a few days.

Please read the other posts in the extreme cooling section of the forums.

We have discussed many of your questions at length in previous threads.

Start there, get a firm idea of what you want to cool and why.

Decide whether you want all internal versus external components?

Do you want the machine to be a portable lan rig?

Think about some of these issues, read the pre-existing threads, and get post again with any outstanding or unanswered questions.

good luck!

Ran-Dum, Ehiem pumps are great and here are some basics for you;

1/4" tubing - Ehiem 1046
3/8" tubing - Ehiem 1048
1/2" tubing (two or less blocks Ehiem 1048) more then two water blocks - Ehiem 1250.

You can fudge the pump selection around a little, but the above is pretty good.

Swiftech, Innovatech, Danger-Den, are all good. A Koolance rig is also good, but not one of the best performers.

There was only one place for RAM waterblocks that I knew of and their site no longer shows them. You might be out of luck there.
But I will keep check around, new products show up all the time.

You can find some of our musings on cooling extras (ram, HDD's, Northbridge) here .

Basically, good results are gained by cooling GPU and CPU.

The watercooling of other components is not well correlated to system performance and overclocking results.

Ram and northbridge cooling might be funky......but generally these parts do not produce enough heat to warrant the effort!

Most of the great benefits of water cooling come from cpu alone.

I'll back Putwig on that, CPU and GPU are good choices but unless your going for some king of fan-less setup, the rest are not neccessary to water cool. Also, the greatly increased tubing length and the extra fittings and blocks will actually work agains the CPU / GPU cooling effort makeing it less effective.