Well, i was shopping around for a waterblock and sadly, Canada's selection is garbage....2 stores only that i've found who carry any kind of watercooling...
anywho...i came across a waterblock for 50 bucks CAN and was about to buy it to start my homemade kit when this kit caught my eye...
the price? 120 CAN after all is said and done (taxes etc) so i said to myself....i could hobble together a pitiful system that could be problem prone or i could save me the hasle and get this sucker...
so i did...its a breeze to install, infact all i removed was my ram, video card and CPU heatsink and fan...
nice clean install, although the pump and the radiator could be bigger, ofcourse i can always replace em with homemade stuff...
results?
Case temps stayed the same, hovering around 29/30 degrees but the CPU temps went DOWN...with stock heatsink/fan the CPU temp hovered around 44 idle and rose to 52 with Prime95 torture test...
now....the case temp is still 30 degrees, but the CPU idle temp is 39 degrees after about an hour of running and went up only to 41 degrees under Primer95 Torture test....didnt run it for 24 hours....but still!!!
i know temps arent accurate, but comparing to eachother, they show a drastic decrease in temps with a basic watercooling setup...
BTW: the CPU is OC'd to 200 mhz running at 2.2gigz...