Water Or Air....

Archytas

I have a wee dilemma....

I'm posting this question here because I've come to trust all of your opinions

I'm building a new system... Nearly built but the money is running low(College).. I have a Athlon 64 3200+(939) on the way and have to decide on cooling... Its going to be overclocked so need the best I can afford....

So which will be better... I'm looking at a Cooling kit... Cheap at 95 from komplett -> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=301290&cks=PRL

I know its cheap but the money is low...

Or will I but a fan thats about the same amount of money??????
Say -> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=300358&cks=PRL
or -> http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=8007&type=6&path=14x122x308
or anything ye can recommend?

What to do? Which would be better?

Thanks all?

ViperVenoM

id say get a thermalright xp90 or 120 if your board supports it and slap one hell of a fan on it...will be just as good as that watercooling kit i reckon as watercooling "kits" aint much better than the best air coolers...like the thermalright stuff

neokenzo

I agree with Viper. Remember, the best watercooling kit are worst than the best aircooling. Get a XP-90 and slap a vantec tornado or panaflo fan. If noise bother you, get a fan controller. The fan should be at least 50 CFM but people seem to report 60CFM is the sweetspot.

TacT

Want to take the Asus star ice challenge? I have one sitting around

Don't bother with the gigabyte cooler, it won't be up to the job when you start cranking up the volts. Get an xp-120 if you can or an xp-90 if you can't if you go for air cooling. I'm using the xp-90 atm and it's nice.

unklerosco

The gigabyte is useless... I had one and the contact with the cpu is crap, not half as tight as it should be. Watercooling is quite and can work quite well but it costs... for €94 id go for air. I spent €250 on my old WC setup(back in the days when id money)

Archytas

Thanks for the advice...
I'm looking at the xp 120 now? On Komplett? It says "without fan"... Oh and it means 120mm fan on top... interesting? Can I put any fan on top that happens to be 120mm?? Hmmm....

unklerosco

check the thermalright website, make sure its compatable with ur mobo n it also has a list of compatable fans...

Archytas

Was just there and it says I have to remove my plastic backplate... My Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 has one built on and they need me to take it of to replace it with a metal one... hmmm... The effort!!!!! Anyway I shall have to look into it... Thanks all!!

SpooN_9k

ya be carefull about the xp-120...its big and doesnt fit alot of boards, performance wise its not a huge improvment over the xp-90 anyway

neokenzo

I wouldnt go with the XP-120. Even with XP-90 I think that the heatsink is huge. Besides, the XP-120 is only 1-2C cooler than the XP-90.

TacT

You should be able to use the backplate that is already in place? I thought the additional backplate provided was just for motherboards with no backplate?

Archytas

Thermalright said that my board has a plastic backplate and that it needs replacin? Has anyone else got my mobo and tried to put a xp-90/xp-120 on it??