Best UK supplier

[teknokid]

whos the cheapest or the best UK supplier for water cooling parts, who do you use?
thanls

[Clunk]

What is it that you are looking for?

There are a few good suppliers, there are a few not so good ones as well.

I used to like thecoolingshop, but recently they have become expensive and they dont answer emails anymore.

over-clock are pretty good, depends what you are after really though.

[teknokid]

well im looking for somewhere that does quite a few manufacturers and a wide range of parts. aqua-pcs and coolercases ive seen so far.

[KBeee]

What are you aiming to cool?
And why?

[teknokid]

as much as i can really. its a new system and i want it cool and quiet with OC potential.

[johnny02004976]

As above the coolingshop.com is always worth a look

more recently i've bought parts from watercoolinguk

http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/catalog/

and the water cooling shop

http://www.watercoolingshop.com/catalog/

[Dorza]

In my one time experience of DIY watercooling so far I found that no one shop will have everything you want unless your prepared to settle for something else for the sake of convenience.

I had to use a combination of the shops Clunk posted and www.coolercases.co.uk to get everything exactly how I wanted. I also used www.rigbits.co.uk but I think that venture is going down the pan a bit since they have stopped trading on the net last time I checked. They don't have much (being new from what I can gather) on sale but their tubing is dirt cheap and it's good stuff.

[danroyle]

specialtech.co.uk have a lot of good watercooling gear i get all my spares from there

[Clunk]

I think coolercases has closed for a short while, thats what it said when I tried to buy something the other day.

[teknokid]

yeah. i found specialtech first but you cant specify what fittings you want and because they dont i cant get my ek 8800gtx block because they dont sell the O rings i need.

[teknokid]

coolercases is fine, im on the site now

[KBeee]

Just remember that water cooling isn't a "mystical art". Get a good radiator and 2 X 120mm fans blowing through it, and a decent water block. Everything else follows from this. My system uses a reservoir inside a 4" X 4" X 2" galvanised metal box, with 2 plated iron nipples for water flow in/out, and a pump inside. My expensive "water cooling" pump packed up after about 1 year, and I spent a fortune getting a replacement - which lasted about 10 months. Then (out of curiosity) when the second expensive pump packed up, I bought a £15 one from B&Q that is made for garden "water features", and it lasted 18 months (remember that my computer is running 24 hours a day). As my systen got upgraded over the years, all I had to do was make my own "pressure plate" to hold the water block onto the new processor on the new motherboard. Took me half an hour with a hacksaw, drill and file, and then a quick spray with mat black paint to make it look "kewl", to go from an Intel 480 MB to a new 680i MB. The advantage is that the whole system is a lot quieter, and my processor runs a little cooler. But.. it's NOT a panacea - you WON'T get amazing overclocks, but it will be quieter.

[Butcher]

I've gotten stuff from all over the place for my water cooling. Even buying stuff off random people on forums (in Hong Kong). Shop around till you get what you want. It's generally not worth trying to go with substitues I find, they're never quite as good.

I think I must be the luckiest person ever with my pump, it's been running for 5 or 6 years more or less 24/7 and it's still going strong.

[Dorza]

Agreed it's not a mystical art, if you do some real reading before buying anything it will help you buy components that better match each other, once you start watercooling you wont go back to fans and I guess the same can be said for extreme cooling to. The thing with watercooling is temps stay more stable, much more in fact. I lost 15 degrees on my GPU when I changed to WC and about 10 degrees on my CPU; Their both around 45 degrees and overclocked slightly. I got a decent drop but this is not always the case but like I said the thing to remember with watercooling is that the temps are far less likely to jump up and down even after intense long duration gaming or CGI rendering.

[vrykyl]

www.over-clock.com and www.ep-uk.co.uk are the ONLY places I will ever buy my watercooling from...and iv been watercooled for a long while now