Here are my final decision about my first watercooling system.. tell me what you think! Black Ice Extreme III Chrome Danger Den - TDX Water Block for p4 Danger Den - Maze 4 VGA Water Block Danger Den Round (Cylindrical) Reservoir Tygon 3603 Tubing ( 7 feet ) Danger Den DD12V-D4 Pump Im gonna watercool: Intel P4 3.0E @ 3.5ghz 1gb Kingston Value Ram PC3200 Dual Chan Geforce Mx440 128mb ( my 6800gt accidently smashed into two ) SO.. what do u think!?
All looks fine from here Only thing i will say is the BIXIII is a little overkill, tbh you would notice all of 2°C difference between that and the BIXII. Considering the price difference i'd say go for a the BIXII. Any plans on getting another video card in the future? It might be an idea to go for the new Acetel Maze4 GPU, it'll give you nVIDIA 6xxx support if you ever get round to buying another How did you manage to smash it in two?
My thermaltake silent tower managed to fell on it.. and bye bye 450$ .. Are you sure that the BIXII is close to BIXIII?
Yup, for the type of hardware you'll be running you'll see no differrence. They only outperform when you're running stuff like a fully pelted rig Why aren't i surprised a Thermaltake product killed it, air cooling is getting beyond the joke these days, especially from Thermaltake
Pelts are basically for cooling below freezing. When they are powered one side of the pelt cools down and one side heats up. Do a search in this forum and you will find some examples and a better explanation
Yup, it stands for thermo electric cooling. One side gets hot the other gets cold, the block takes away the heat and the cool side goes well into sub zero. The extra heat taxes the radiator quite a bit, that's when a triple begins to shine
Yeah i wouldnt recommend a single 120.1 rad for pelts. As it can only cool as well as heat is taken away, if the rad cant' dissipate the heat from the water the pelt wont cool down as much and bye bye cpu. But you'd be looking aroun 10C of so with pelts they just requiremore knowledge, much more fun though Also you planning on cooling the gfx aswell, you just mentioned those specs but not sure what you intend to cool.
