Well I'm sitting here pretty bored on a friday night :P SO I decided to start writing a little watercooling guide...
What Do we need for this? I would start with deciding what connections you want on your watercooling; 3/8 or 1/2- 1/2 is the thicker one and cools the comp a little better, but if you are not overclocking there is no reason to have 1/2.
Case:
Then start looking for a bigtower case to make everything a little easier... CHIEFTEC DA-01B-D 340W is a pretty nice case with alot of space
or you could use a AOPEN HQ08A-P BIGTOWER 300W This is the case I have and I think its great!
So whats next?
Pump:
Well you can start with looking for a pump. Eheim Pumps are great and trustworthy.
This is the pump most people use for watercooling.
It doesn't make to much noise and is fairly little, here are the specs on this pump:
10l/min ~2,5gallons a min
Effect 10 W with 230 volt
Can be ran under water
Tank:
Then its time for the tank, and I've decided to get the Eheim tank that is made to be put together with the pump. Some people say this tank makes alot of noise, but I think it's really very quiet. It's a tiny tank but since we're going to run a Blackice radiator (check further down) it's going work nice.
 
Radiator:
The next thing you want to look at is the radiator. Black Ice Radiators are sweet and the best ones you can have is a radiator from a car to use, that way you save
money. You will have to clean it up and fool around with it though.
I run this radiator with two 120mm powercolor fans at 5V and it keeps my comp very cool. This radiator can have two 120 mm fans mounted on it.
Cpu block:
Then its time for the Cpu block, and the hottest right now is the Maze3 from Dangerden
This baby is so sweet and cools great, it fits on Thunderbirds and Amd Xp processors but there is available for p4 to. Check for more info on Dangerdens site.
Water/Waterwetter:
You have to run your system with destilled water which you can find at the closest gas station. Something you have to order is someRedline Waterwetter which help so crap wont start growing in your system, and its helps the water to move the heat from the block.
The rest:
So what haven't we thought of? Well what's left is to buy some hose, either silicon which is more expensive but better, or PVC hose which is cheap but breaks easier and its alot harder..
DONT FORGET ARTIC SILVER 3!!!!!!! This paste rocks to get the connection better between the cpu and the block, and dont forget the fans for the radiator.
Where to buy:
Sweden:
Imusdata
Kylning.com
Gtek.net
Overclockers
America
Caseetc
Cooltechnica
Dangerden.com
There is alot more but these are the good ones i like.
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