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Need help picking out which water cooling system I should get

Hey I'm new to water cooling, but I know I would rather do a water system since i have the i7 8700k and got told it does run very hot. So I need help picking out which one I should get for my build. I'm down to two but would like to know what people think. I either want the ekwb ek fluid gaming A240 complete dual 120mm water/liquid cooling kit 240mm, or should I get the cooler master masterliquid lite ML240L RGB AIO cpu liquid cooler? I'm also going to get the msi  geforce Rtx 2060 ventus 6g OC video card too but not gonna water cool my video card for now.

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either should get you similar cooling, with EK's you can expand it down the road if you want (make sure you only use aluminum parts, copper+aluminum=corrosion) and replace the pump eventually when it dies, but you should clean out and replace the coolant regularly (like every year or so) 
With the ml240l you won't have the maintenance work of flushing and replacing coolant, but when the pump dies replacing it probably isn't a viable option and you can't expand it (most AIOs are mixed metal loops, but avoid corrosion through chemicals in the fluid. You can open them up and expand them, but it's do at your own risk and you better know what you're doing)
Hope that helps you make your choice

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the 20 series GPU's have n issue with increasing power, so watercooling it in the future wouldn't bring much if any increase in performance. and the 8700k runs fine even with sub $80 coolers like the Dark Rock Pro 4, you should be able to hit 4.7-5.0GHz no problem on most examples. 

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