I want water cooling for my system but don't want to splash 100s of $

[SandPug101]

I want water cooling for my system but don't want to splash 100s of $ what is the best site to get stuff for cheep price.

 

Stuff I want in my rig:

• reservoir small ish
• tube (obviously)
• CPU block
• Pump 
• Radiator (1 fan)
• Fan RGB or not I don't care
• GPU block (if possible)

I know you guys are good at this stuff

 

Hope to here from you soon

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

 

[Airdragonz]

Water cooling is one of those things I won't really go budget on. You don't want cheap and crappy parts that might break and dump a liter of water inside your case. You'll at least be spending a couple hundred bucks. If you want budget, I'd recommend an AIO or a diy liquid cooling kit from ekwb or Thermaltake. 

[samcool55]

You have 4 options.

Go AIO

Go preconfigured kit like EKWB

Go full custom

Go chinese cheapskate

 

The first 3 can be done with relatively low risk.

Chinese option, make sure you get some experience first in a dummy/too old to be useful system. It's not as easy as it looks.

Most of the time maintenance is much more difficult than first assembly so get some experience with that too.

[SandPug101]

I have a spare junk pc (well a box with all the parts in it) so yeah ill try ebay!!

[stealth80]

I want a Porsche, but I don't want to pay £80000 …….. sorry but it's true. You do have a couple of options, Go with a pump/res combo, this will be £100, radiator (360mm) and 3x high static fans, gonna be another £100. Then grab a CPU block, fittings and tubing, £100. If you're lucky keep an eye on classifieds, you would be surprised how cheap used radiators and blocks go for.

 

But please, don't try and skimp it, buy used (from reputable) or save and buy new. Once you have the basis of the loop you can expand as and when you have the funds 

[SolarNova]

The problem is, Custom water loops cost alot. They are designed and made for 2 primary reasons, superior cooling, and asthetics.

 

it sounds to me you want it for its looks as well as its performance, and your not going to get that on the cheap.

 

if you just want performance, then you can go the cheapo route for sure, but it wil not look great.

 

If you want the looks, you going to have to spend the money.

 

The cheapest option is to go with is: soft tubing, use bog standard fittings, perhaps just barbs instead of compression. A pump/res combo unit ether bay or small tube, and the cheapets blocks and rads you can find. Dont expect top performance from them though. Additionaly just use standard Distilled water and a biocide. Even then you talking hundreads of $ , its unavoidable.

 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

You can't cheap out on custom watercooling. It's quite an investment.

[r34lj4k3]

I'd go with an EK Predator setup of some sort to start off with and then you can build off of that. It's a couple hundred dollars (cheap entry) and you can expand on it...even replacing the tubing, fittings, waterblock, and adding in other things like a gpu block. It also isn't aluminum based which means that other EK blocks will play nice with it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't done enough research.