Cheapest solution - Page 2

Ninja_Harbinger · 25th May 2012, 9:57 AM

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Originally Posted by roamin

cheapest? your in the watercooling forum asking for cheapest?

it always starts out as a CHEAP build lol. than $1500 later your pc is watercooled

than your all

till you tell the missus how much you spent than your more like

HA! Missus. I'm 15 man...

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Originally Posted by Moptimus

The solution is to not tell her. Don't get a windowed case, no flashy leds. Just a temp screen/fan controller. 9 months after putting it into a Tj-07 with 120.4 and 120.2 she sees a bottle of distilled water on the floor.

"what's that for?"
Oh I have water cooled my computer.
"You are a nerd."
Would you rather I was drinking again?
"No."

And I didn't even drink that much previously.

Lawl. I have the NZXT Phantom 410 (mid tower) specificaly to show it off. My computer cost $1k so far and it's pretty good. Plus, I don't drink so I think I'm good there.

So yeah. I know it's weird to see the word 'Cheapest' in the WC forum but I'm 15 and I have no job (getting work experience soon so hopefully I get a job from that).

admiralranga · 25th May 2012, 10:52 AM

About the cheapest way in to WC is lurking in forsale and buying all the cheap 2nd hand stuff

roamin · 25th May 2012, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Ninja_Harbinger

HA! Missus. I'm 15 man...

you best start doing A LOT of newspaper rounds than if you wanna play with water.

for sale section. thats the cheapest way.

second hand res, pump, fittings, blocks and rads.

miicah · 27th May 2012, 4:36 PM

Cheapest you could get out for would be around $150 at a guess.

That would be 2nd hand pump, FC block and 120/240 rad.

New tubing and barbs from gam, TKR or PCCG.

Ninja_Harbinger · 27th May 2012, 7:35 PM

What's an FC Block? I'll need an AM3 block and a non-reference 6970 block: Link to the EK website

The pump I know about, get a D5.

Rad will be a 120.2

Res, I'm thinking about a 5.25" bay acrylic.

Tubing, just plain acrylic or whatever's cheap

Fittings, I want some of the bitspower compression fittings but I think it's gonna' be some barbs

Coolant, again, I want some green coolant but it looks like some distilled water and LU.

kambo_rambo · 27th May 2012, 9:10 PM

FC is full cover.

Ninja_Harbinger · 27th May 2012, 9:35 PM

Ohh ok thanks.

-inVaRed. · 27th May 2012, 9:43 PM

HEYYYYYYYY ANOTHER 15 YEAR OLD

But im 14 T____T

Get one of those XSPC kits, and then start from there.

savolion · 27th May 2012, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by -inVaRed.

HEYYYYYYYY ANOTHER 15 YEAR OLD

But im 14 T____T

Get one of those XSPC kits, and then start from there.

This^

, watercooling on the cheap will end up as water everywere. Even second hand the build for my missus the watercooling cost me around $300. Id hate to think what ive spend on mine in upgrade and changes since i built it first a while back

Moptimus · 27th May 2012, 11:11 PM

Check out the new kit from Greig over at gammods:

http://www.gammods.com.au/store/inde...oducts_id=6362

Even this forum's kit-hater numero uno has given this one a squeal of approval.

All you would need is a universal gpu block and some heatsinks and away you go.

-inVaRed. · 28th May 2012, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Moptimus

Check out the new kit from Greig over at gammods:

http://www.gammods.com.au/store/inde...oducts_id=6362

Even this forum's kit-hater numero uno has given this one a squeal of approval.

All you would need is a universal gpu block and some heatsinks and away you go.

Gam's a genius and a legend.

Ninja_Harbinger · 28th May 2012, 10:49 AM

I'm going to get this kit: XSPC Rasa 750 RS240 Universal CPU Water Cooling Kit

AND

These heatsinks: Arctic Cooling VR001 Ram Heatsinks

With this GPU block: XSPC RayStorm GPU Water Block
Once I have the money (when mum says I can)

Moptimus · 28th May 2012, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninja_Harbinger

I'm going to get this kit: XSPC Rasa 750 RS240 Universal CPU Water Cooling Kit

AND

These heatsinks: Arctic Cooling VR001 Ram Heatsinks

With this GPU block: XSPC RayStorm GPU Water Block
Once I have the money (when mum says I can)

Love the honesty mate.

kambo_rambo · 28th May 2012, 11:43 AM

Can VRM be cooled passively just with heatsinks ?

miicah · 28th May 2012, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by kambo_rambo

Can VRM be cooled passively just with heatsinks ?

Yeah probably, I remember the latest anandtech review of the GTX670 they mentioned there wasn't any air going over the heatsinks on the VRMs.

Probably not on an older card though, my HD4870 VRMs got insanely hot if I moved the fan around or forgot to plug it back in.

27th May 2012, 4:36 PM	#19
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28th May 2012, 11:43 AM	#29
kambo_rambo Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Adelaide Posts: 940	Can VRM be cooled passively just with heatsinks ? __________________ Watercooled Bitfenix Prodigy i7-2600k @ 4.7ghz 1.35v -\|- GB GTX670 @ 1264mhz -\|- Catleap 27" 1440p -\|- ASRock Z77 e-ITX -\|- Intel X-25M G2 160GB -\|- Samsung 830 256GB -\|- Corsair AX750 -\|- Filco MJ2 Cherry Blues + Logitech G9x HP ProLiant Microserver N36L: 8GB RAM, 5x2TB + 1TB OS, GT210 512MB --- ZFS, MythTV, Sickbeard, SAB, XMBC, IR receiver