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travanx · 07-30-2004, 07:57 PM

I would be a decent example of someone new to watercooling. I basically read a review about the Kingwin kit. And thought wow prices finally dropped this low on a WC kit? Maybe I will finally look into getting one. I wasn't really looking at it as something that would let me OC any higher though. More like possibly a better solution for noise and possibly cooling the chip better to make it more stable. My AMD64 runs very hot when its OC'd, though it is stable.

So I looked more into the kits and noticed they weren't very good after doing some message board reading. I finally got the idea of what made a basic/decent kit with quality parts. Its a little more expensive than what I originally read about, but it wasn't enough to make me back away from the price. $250 shipped from danger den for a kit to cool my Radeon 9800pro and AMD64 3000+.

Now the two things that made me reluctant all this time to try WC. One was the reliability. 2nd was maintenance. But it seems like a lot of kinks have been sorted out of this cooling method. Still not perfect where anyone could do it. But its getting very close.

Bigger stores carrying the quality parts and more information on the parts seems like the main things needed to get WC into the general market.

I am into cars, so when Subaru brought out their WRX with a turbo, suddenly cheap little turbo cars started selling fast. But Subaru didn't price the WRX cheap and use cheap parts. They priced the car moderately and made it reliable. Now look at how many little cars are coming out with turbos. Of course the car analogy mainly pertains to the US market.

07-30-2004, 07:57 PM	#115
travanx Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Southern California Posts: 3	I would be a decent example of someone new to watercooling. I basically read a review about the Kingwin kit. And thought wow prices finally dropped this low on a WC kit? Maybe I will finally look into getting one. I wasn't really looking at it as something that would let me OC any higher though. More like possibly a better solution for noise and possibly cooling the chip better to make it more stable. My AMD64 runs very hot when its OC'd, though it is stable. So I looked more into the kits and noticed they weren't very good after doing some message board reading. I finally got the idea of what made a basic/decent kit with quality parts. Its a little more expensive than what I originally read about, but it wasn't enough to make me back away from the price. $250 shipped from danger den for a kit to cool my Radeon 9800pro and AMD64 3000+. Now the two things that made me reluctant all this time to try WC. One was the reliability. 2nd was maintenance. But it seems like a lot of kinks have been sorted out of this cooling method. Still not perfect where anyone could do it. But its getting very close. Bigger stores carrying the quality parts and more information on the parts seems like the main things needed to get WC into the general market. I am into cars, so when Subaru brought out their WRX with a turbo, suddenly cheap little turbo cars started selling fast. But Subaru didn't price the WRX cheap and use cheap parts. They priced the car moderately and made it reliable. Now look at how many little cars are coming out with turbos. Of course the car analogy mainly pertains to the US market.