Well 40 pounds is like 120 australian dollars, so about 60 american bucks at current exchange rates.
I just need my new job to be able to afford a damn waterblock in the first place, got most other things sorted except for finding a radiator that will fit width-wise in my HX08
I would have to say that price DOES play a huge part in watercooling, especially when there isnt a huge demand yet.
Imagine that you could go and get a crappy hsf for 40 australian (20 american) or for 60 australian you could go pick up a waterblock, clamp and heatercore, which one would you pick?
I know those prices are really not too viable at the moment, but using things like aluminium blocks (because some of us dont want performance, we want silence and cheapness) would make this kind of cooling available to more people and increase demand.
Sure, produce hardcore blocks for the psycho's amongst us, but there does need to be some option for the poorer people or those that dont want to spend hundreds on getting a quieter computer.
I'm looking at an upgrade from my trusty celeron 466 @ 525, stock cooling, and while i would LOVE an athlon XP, i really will not buy one while the only option is to spend bucketloads of cash on buying a waterblock so that i dont have to run 46dB fans as the only other option.
The only other option then becomes another celeron (thanks but no thanks) or a P4, and yes lets bring on the bashing, but im sorry, silence is my one real reason for watercooling.
Ok silence, a little bit of an overclock, and for the cool factor given everyone i know poo-pooh's watercooling as stupid and over the top, even tho they have never tried it
