Mike2001Pro

I'd separate. A rad for your CPU and one for the GPU. The NZXT Kraken G12 seems good if you wanted to add some copper shims to the GPU memory chips. Thermal tape to hold them on and the fan cools them. Might work good for something that's inexpensive and effective. When you separate them I would imagine it cools slightly better than combined because you would have 2 pumps going so that's better water flow and you would have 2 rads so that's more radiator area. Someone commented about the size of the radiator doesn't really make a difference and I couldn't disagree more. In fact, the more area for the water to move through and cool the better. Just a thought, but if you wanted to, fairly easily, you could always build a much better liquid cooling system for much much cheaper. I found that there is some stuff called liquid tight conduit or electric conduit that is really cheap and worked fine for when I wanted to drain my back yard 8 years ago and all the other tubing costed 10 times more money. It's been 8 years and my backyard still has this electrical conduit ($75 for 100 feet of 1 inch inside diameter) buried in my backyard that my submersible water pump is using to pump out water from my back yard when it rains. And for the pump, there are alot of really inexpensive small water pumps that could probably fit right inside a computer case..lol. The water blocks would need to be purchased for the CPU. Linus made his own water block for a GPU in a video but it looked a bit tough so you might need to buy just the water block for the GPU too. <edit> By the way, check out something I came across on Linus Tips of course..lol strix 270E monoblock <<< I like this water CPU block!

Of course. Though even 3 to 4 generations apart from a CPU isn't really old, considering that I am currently working on a core 2 duo just fine and I can play some games too. Same with the GPU generations. You can be using an AGP graphics card and still do just fine with work and some games. Just not for those "first person shooter" games like Call of Duty. My original post was referring to the younger generation of gamers and computer technicians where they do not value used computer parts. You always hear "oh that isn't worth anything" or "you might as well just throw that away and get a new one, there not worth much anyway"....LOL So yeah, 2 years for the younger generation is what I am being told by them. Maybe minus that 1-2% of the younger generation that actually don't agree. Those guys might have some potential...lol

The radiator is going to be your biggest issue because the water block can be disassembled and cleaned pretty easily and so can the tubes and fittings. The Pacific RL360 Radiator happens to be aluminum. I saw people recommend baking soda and vinegar to clean aluminum. I might suggest running that through the whole system. I'd be careful of any leaks or spills. The paint residue might come off with some paint thinner but paint thinner is some strong stuff. I saw this stuff here "Motsenbocker 413-01 Latex Paint Remover". This stuff looked pretty safe for getting the paint residue clean without causing any problems with other materials. It might be worth a shot to run that through the entire cooling system. There is always a way! No road blocks here. - TC Technician Let me know what you think and keep me posted buddy. We will find what works and make it happen. (edited) There is a simple and practical fix for this. Were talking about cleaning up Thermaltake C1000 coolant "gunk" here and that's minor when compared to rust and other metal contaminants. You may want to fist take a piece of the tube for testing and then try a solutions with that to see what works before running a solution through the whole system. I was also thinking that you could probably heat some water up (hot water - not boiling 100-110c / 120-140 Fahrenheit) and let the radiator soak and CPU block in that for a bit with some vinegar and baking soda and then go out side and take the garden hose to it flushing out the gunk. Just be careful not to warp the radiator/CPU block by heating it too much and/or by heating and quickly cooling it. (For the CPU block- If you didn't want to take the CPU block apart that is. The CPU block has some components in there but should be able to with stand the heat just fine) I'll assume you are on a budget so I will try and recommend house hold things. As a computer technician I always heard gamers and techs say things like "just get a new one those aren't worth anything" . It's very popular for computer people to under value used computer parts. But money doesn't grow on trees and I have never found no value to used computer parts, especially fans. Aluminum is a metal that could with stand oven cleaner so I was thinking you could spray oven cleaner inside the radiator and let it sit for a couple hours. I'm pretty certain that would work nicely. And then garden hose it again..lol Believe it or not, it's pretty safe on metals. You just got to rinse it out really good a few times. I can recommend other house hold things that might work for the pump as well if I'm going down the right track here. Let me know. (For Science! - I've never met my equal, in real life or online)

LOL! For a moment there, I think, I almost understood the Radiator Cooling Capacity chart/explanation that Enderman posted. Almost! At first I thought that <A Lini> was simply "intake-ing" too much medical marijuana (which still might be the case) but as I read on I realized there might actually be a theory here. Theoretically it is possible to super cool a CPU, but when you use the term ambient it changes everything. It might be easier to just ask if it is possible to get the temperature of a CPU to 1 degree Celsius / 33 Fahrenheit? At least now I can picture an ice cube sitting on a CPU. LOL

2 years. According to computer users, over the past decade, after about 2 years is when you need to start upgrading your PC. After 2 years your computer's hardware becomes old and has little value. <campy> has the text book answer but I agree with more of what <it_don't_work> said.

Right when I read your post, I suspected what the problem was. SOFTWARE - VIRUS/MALWARE/ADWARE. Like clockwork, just after a couple months your computer slows down and you don't know why. The hardware SPECS you posted are fine. Even if your computer runs fine but an application/game doesn't, it could still be adware sucking up your BANDWIDTH! Run a scan!

I was extremely disappointed with the ORIGIN gaming system for $1500. I agree with Asus Killer here - " It's a joke what kind of hardware you can get for $1500 USD to what is in those system, could go to a local shop or someone and just have them build it of course." It's much better to have a trusted local computer store build you a gaming PC. I owned and operated a computer store and I built far better gaming PC's than this for $1500. Most gamers under value computer components and desktop gaming PCs. I've dealt with alot of gamers who wanted to purchase a gaming PC for only six hundred dollars. I've had alot of gamers skimp on fans and power supplies and motherboards and purchase used liquid coolers because they under valued older computer parts. This is a mistake. You get what you pay for. I know Linus focuses on what type of computer game you want to run when building a gaming PC and that is because if you only have a certain amount of money you do not want to spend it on a gaming PC that will NOT play your game. In other words, the real focus is on the price. You want to make sure you spend "enough" money to build a gaming PC that is going to play your games.