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watercooling-apogee, triple rad, 1/2 inch tubing, swiftech pump 10 62.50%
2 x 250gb WD sata 2 16mb cache and a DVD-RW sata 6 37.50%
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Old 08-27-06   #1 (permalink)
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Default Core 2 duo watercooling or SATA?
as the title describes what should i do? shall i get a nice watercooling setup inc triple rad 6 120mm's, 1/2inch tubing, apogee dedicated to cpu....


or shall i purchase 2 x 250gb sata 2 western digital HDD's and 1 SATA samsung dvd-rw? eventually i plan to get both but i am on the verge of purchasing either one
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HMMM only thing is that i got a feeling that my HDD is on its way out!
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Get two 160GB's and RAID 'em. Samsungs at newegg for 160GB can be had for $52. Get a normal IDE drive, and go water cooling.

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Get two 160GB's and RAID 'em. Samsungs at newegg for 160GB can be had for $52. Get a normal IDE drive, and go water cooling.

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I want to get rid of all of my IDE cables because they are big and horrible (also i can use my current dvdrw in my second system) so if i get all sata it all looks neat!
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I want to get rid of all of my IDE cables because they are big and horrible (also i can use my current dvdrw in my second system) so if i get all sata it all looks neat!
Get round cables. Cheap. Come in UV reactive, black, white, pink, yellow, orange, whatever you want. Small.
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Galaxy 8800GT 512MB
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OCZ GameXStream 700W SLI (72A)		 Case
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