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    Thinking of dabbling in watercooling...

    Just been thinking about watercooling my PC and have been browsing the specialtech website. Found the Hydor Seltz L20 pump for a price of £14ish but it comes with no connectors, could anyone point me in the direction of connections I would need, barbs etc.

    And also if anyone could link me to any decent deals, looking to W/C an X1950XT (Nexus H2O-6000 or Alphacool NexXxoS NVXP-3) and an E4300. Was looking at a single 120mm Rad for my Antec P180 to mount on the outside, or possibly fitting a double 80mm rad inside somehow.

    Failing that I would go for the Alphacool CoolAnswer II 120 and stick a GPU cooler in the loop.

    Price would be my main concern, I don't have £200 to spend (more like £100ish :/)

    Thanks in advance
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    I would go for a dual 120.2 rad for those. You could go with a single, but you would end up with temps not much better than good air, and probably noisier as well.

    Rule of thumb is - cheap watercooling will generally net you results similar to aircooling.

    I think the cheapest half decent kits are the swiftech h20 ones at about 120.
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    Alright, cheers Clunk.

    So you think I'd be able to fit a dual 120 rad on the back of a P180 ?

    Think I might end up buying an Arctic Cooling 7 Pro in the end...
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    • BigFatCat's system
      • Motherboard:
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    Some of the XSPC stuff is good on a budget, I've their GPU block in an otherwise Alphacool setup.

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