watercooling vs. air cooling

Hi,

I've read a lot of things but I'm not able to choice.

I'm building a (big) computer with :
opteron
quadro
dfi lanparty
2x1GB

I would like to have any advice concerning th choice between :
- usual air cooling with default fan of quadro, something like XP-90c for
Cpu...
- watercooling kit for cpu and gpu (don't know which one already)

With a standard watercooling kit (with a cost that is not bigger than the
whole computer cost) :
- is the overclocking potential really better ?
- is the computer really silencer ?

Is there any comparison on this on the web ? any advice ?

thanks,
GB

g. bon skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I've read a lot of things but I'm not able to choice.
>
> I'm building a (big) computer with :
> opteron
> quadro
> dfi lanparty
> 2x1GB
>
> I would like to have any advice concerning th choice between :
> - usual air cooling with default fan of quadro, something like XP-90c for
> Cpu...
> - watercooling kit for cpu and gpu (don't know which one already)
>
> With a standard watercooling kit (with a cost that is not bigger than the
> whole computer cost) :
> - is the overclocking potential really better ?
> - is the computer really silencer ?
>
> Is there any comparison on this on the web ? any advice ?
>
> thanks,
> GB
>
>

hi

air cooling much easier to install, if you don't have used water cooling before, you may
want to avoid water cooling! air coolers are efficient enough now to keep your amd core
cool, even if mild oc is a target.

in my eyes standard kits are not that great! i bought one from swifttech and immediently
started to mod it! (not silent/cooling enough) now i just have the cpu and gf blocks intact,
the rest is homemade stuff.

1x gallon water tank
2x blackice extreme radiators
4x 120mm silent fans with fancontroller.
1x hydor waterpump (l30)
½" internal diameter pvc pipes
(gpu and cpu blocks feed it own radiator, parallell wise!)
(only blocks are in the computer)

silent? nearly...only a faint hmmm sound from the pump and some fan noise if you listen. cpu
idle temp is 28°c, never passed 39°c (4400+ @ 2500mhz doing prime on both cores)

worth the work? don't know.....it was a lot of work and quite expensive! (some exprimenting
done..i got 3 discarded pumps in the spare pile, creasy!!)

coco