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TurK-FX
12-14-2008, 10:49 AM
Hi, i am new with the water cooling business, i need to buy a case, power suplly for my 2 x 9800 Gx2 and buy a water cooling. I just bought Zalman 9700 NT but it didnt work well for me. I have rosewill $20worth(free after rebate) fan&hs gives me same temp. So i decided to move to watercolling.
My current case is Raidmax scorpio 668w full tower (http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=144&products_id=902) But it gets dusty really easy and doesnt have a good air flow. I have $550 for watercooling unit+case+at least 1000w tier1 power suplly.
i have some choices below


Thermaltake Kandalf (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133024) comes built in water cooling around $270

Antec twelve hundred (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129043) it is $159shipped +ocz elitexstrame 1000w $189 after rebate

Xclio 1000 + Xclio diamondpower 1080w (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.146501) $420

Boreas MTEC (http://www.coolitsystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=5) it is just dream icant get this because this one is like $750 without psu

i may also buy this power supply Zalman ZM850 850w it is around $150
or this zalman gs 1000 case it is big and good, good cable managment but insuficient fans.




I need water cooling recomendation for antec or Xclio built.

cOOLIT eliminator thermoelectiric (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835227001) water cooler $160 how is this one?

sWIFTEC H20 $130

actually i want something big like i can add gpu water blocks

power supply

Antec signature series 850w (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371018)
or
Antec True power 1000w (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371012)

those have good discount with antec case+power combo

one more question. I have pretty big case. Would you just keep him? and spent money for water cooling&power supply.
also can i mode my case? to do better air flow


i am open minded to new recomendations.

Hidetaka
12-14-2008, 01:07 PM
Stay away from anything TT [especially watercooling]...

Antec's quality beats the ones you've listed, for more WC suggestions I'd recommend Liquid Cooling section of this site.
Whatever you pick for WC stay away from prebuilt sets [Swiftech might be an exception].

Btw. What do you need 1kW PSU for? Tri-SLI, 2 Quad CPUs and 12 HDD raid?

Waymon3X6
12-14-2008, 01:49 PM
I can recommend the Swiftech cooling kit, I have it and it is great. Very high quality parts and great results!

TurK-FX
12-14-2008, 02:03 PM
Btw. What do you need 1kW PSU for? Tri-SLI, 2 Quad CPUs and 12 HDD raid?

Double 9800 Gx2 (quad SLI) Quadcore with High end Mobo 1TB hdd 8gb ddr2 800 memory lots of case fan and probably water cooling.

i was thinking to get 1000w antec or 850w antec sinature series. i wasnt sure if 850w is enough. cus when i make the calculation it comes out 900w.

I decided to Buy Antec1200case with power supply combo. i need to find out good water cooling as well.

atomic ferret
12-14-2008, 03:02 PM
Buy a case and a water cooling set up separately. Any case will do, but something big would be nice. You don't need too big of a PSU, a 750 watt one will do. As far as water cooling, it depends on your hardware.