Water Cooled Build for $1000?

[Ryhann]

Hello again! I'm currently in the project of building my friend a gaming PC for his game room, I wanted to go with an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU and my friend wanted to know if we could try water cooling it. Any suggestions? (I can go a bit over the budget)

[Thinkfreely]

Aio or custom loop?

[Daniel Z.]

After the loop for GPU and CPU, you'd have maybe 650 for the PC, not worth it

[JJVGaming]

22 minutes ago, Ryhann said:

Hello again! I'm currently in the project of building my friend a gaming PC for his game room, I wanted to go with an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU and my friend wanted to know if we could try water cooling it. Any suggestions? (I can go a bit over the budget)

If he wants just an aio sure, but a full loop is not worth it.

[PrimeSonic]

IMHO: Custom water cooling is not something you should be looking at if you're on a fixed budget.

[The Benjamins]

even with a EK-KIT S240 ($200) and adding a GPU block and fittings (~$100) you would only have $700 for the PC. EK kits would be a nice affordable starting point if you wanted a cutsom loop.

 

You could do 2 AIO (1 CPU + 1 GPU for around ~$200