| nice i read the compareison and it is a good review. there are a couple of things that the review does not cover. i started with a thermaltake bigwater. and ran some of the same number that they are showing. since then i have modifyed it and learned a lot about liquid cooling. yes, the thermal take needs bigger tubing, and a pump that is not a sissy. but you can cut your temps by investing some time and a little money. (very little money). for starters, i lapped the bottom of the block to a shine. this means i took sandpaper and polished the bottom of the block. starting with 600,moving to 800, and so on until i got to 2000 grit. second. i put my radiator in the front of my case. ( i have a cooler master stakcer) so it is pulling cold air from the out side in and blowing it across the radiator. if i put the radiator in a place where the warm air from the case is blowing on it verses the cool out side air, then then temp would be higher. third, i changed the flow direction a little. it was pump to water block to resivour to radiator and back to pump. i changed it to pumo to resevour to radiator to water block and back to pump. this cut a couple of degrees. and last i installed a second 120 fan on my radiator. so it has the thermaltake 120 fan on one side of the radiator and a second 120 on the other side. this does not make a big differance, but it does minorly help the air flow throught the radiator better. note to the seocond fan, i had it laying around so it didnt cost me a dime. the only thing that really suxs about the thermaltake is that the kit does not come with an easy way to drain the system. so it makes for a small pain in the butt when it comes time to change the liquid. |