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Originally Posted by Systemlord
Water cooling isn't the answer, a better airflowing computer case is. The second most costly component during my new computer build last June 07 was the computer case, $330 dollars for a computer case does seem like alot. When you get the same temperatures inside a case as you do outside the case with a bunch of fans, thats awesome! I'm running an 8800GTX and these are supposed to run HOT, it idles at 52C and never go's above 68C max load. What case do you own? Mid size PC case are not enough for todays gaming systems in my opinion!
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To each his own. I wouldn't trade my water cooling for a $330 case....especially with a bunch of fans
Your card runs Idle where mine runs max load
heavily overclocked with four OC'd cores pouring heat into the loop. As far as what cools more efficiently; it's water cooling over fans all day long. As far as cost per centigrade of cooling, it's far cheaper to go with noisy fans usually unless you hodge podge a water cooling system together. You can get deals on the water blocks if you search around & a junkyard heater core will run somewhere in the area of $5 so really; it's possible to get water cooling on BOTH a CPU & a GPU for under $330
As the saying goes; You gotta' shop around.
EDIT: But I will agree with standing cow; unless you're over clocking, water cooling really isn't neccesary.