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Originally Posted by 9mmCensor
To me "low end" equates to practical.
A G4 and an Iwakai would be sick. But its not economically feasible, being in University. Books, beer, and tuition tax your meanial student paycheck.
So that means sacrifices have to be made.
First to go is: Preformance.
Buying the greatest is expensive, so save some cash and lower your cooling capacity.
Second is ease of use: Take some extra time, and effort and and make it cheaper. Ditch the kit with the fancy instrutions and high price tag, and slap together i DIY job.
Third is noise: Why bother with H2O if high noise is acceptable... you can just get high end air for cheaper. But you can acept a pump that makes abit of noise, or some fans that are ultra quite, for the sake of saving a few bucks, but no drastic cost reductions.
Reliability needs to be a priority.
Saving money is good, but if you buy a shoddy peice of crap, that wastes your system, and you cant do your school work, your borked.
Those are my thoughts, on why, someday (soon?) I will go the low end route.
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I've always seen ease of use/looks as more of an economic stretch than performance and silence.
size, ease of use, and looks are typically what drive cost way up for watercooling systems.
performance and silence can be had with little extra cost. But boy do you sacrifice size, ease of use, and looks
for example, look at volenti's evap cooler
or a well-thought-out radbox, or swiftech's latest block (everyone complains that it's ugly)
...that is where the watercooling community is really split, where size, ease of use, and looks are of importance....to some they mean nothing, to some they mean everyting