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#1 myungstunna
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hey guys i am planning on buying a comp before 12AM today (thanks to the help of a few gentleman) and i have a question

on I BUY POWER the standard is certified CPU Fan and Heatsink. however for only 10 dollars more there is the LIQUID CPU Cooling System- with a free upgrade to standar 120 mm fan.

is this worth it??

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** if anyone has the time, i am planning on buying a monitor (Scepter 23.5) but theres also a tab seperate for monitor cable, do i need to buy that seperately? or does simply buying the monitor come with one?

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Liquid cooling=more maintenance, so if you can put up with it sure.

About the monitor...chances are if it doesn't even come with a cable, it's not worth buying.

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#3 GTR12
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Liquid cooling=more maintenance, so if you can put up with it sure.

About the monitor...chances are if it doesn't even come with a cable, it's not worth buying.

6_Dead_360s

Right....

So the Dell u2711 isn't worth buying purely for the fact it doesn't come with all the cables?

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#4 Nethemis
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hey guys i am planning on buying a comp before 12AM today (thanks to the help of a few gentleman) and i have a question

on I BUY POWER the standard is certified CPU Fan and Heatsink. however for only 10 dollars more there is the LIQUID CPU Cooling System- with a free upgrade to standar 120 mm fan.

is this worth it??

ALSO

** if anyone has the time, i am planning on buying a monitor (Scepter 23.5) but theres also a tab seperate for monitor cable, do i need to buy that seperately? or does simply buying the monitor come with one?

myungstunna

First and formost if you want to go into the watercooling route do some research first, it is high maitenence but after you go through the process you only have to drain and clean it every 6months to a year ofc cleaning out dust on the regular is good also, but as far as going that route i recomend you do some research first it's actually fun when you get into it.

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#5 jtcraft
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I think he is talking about the All-In-One liquid coolers, like the Corsair H100. There isn't any more maintenance done for them that isn't done on a normal fan/heatsink since the liquid can't be drained. As far as it being worth the $10 will depend what heatsink they normally use. The monitor will probably come with the a DVI or HDMI cable. I think the extra one is if you are wanting a longer cable.
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The stock coolers that come with CPUs are adequate for stock clockings. There is no need to spend more on that unless you're overclocking or you just want the gear. Self-contained liquid coolers are no better than air coolers, but they have the disadvantage that they can destroy your computer. I'm not saying they are know to do that, I'm just saying that if an air cooler leaks air onto your motherboard, it won't start a fire. Water cooling started a while back as an experimental enthusiast hobby thing, with external radiators and pumps and reservoirs, to cool overclocked CPUs. Running a CPU at a frequency much higher than it is designed to run at makes it get hot fast. Massive amounts of liquid being pumped past the chip could carry the heat away faster than air could, since water absorbs heat more readily than air does. People still do it for high overclocks, and they even use liquid nitrogen. The efficacy of the method depends on the radiator, though, which must be large. No matter how good water is at absorbing heat, that heat has to be dissipated in the air at some point, or else it gets pumped right back to the CPU. So you still have an air cooler in some sense. The romance of water cooling led certain manufacturers to jump on the bandwagon and put out little pretend water coolers, so that people who don't know any better can say, "My rig is water-cooled." It's like how they came out with the Hummer for people who want to make believe they have a Humvee. The water coolers themselves, the better ones, work well nowadays, but there is still no reason to have one unless you're doing modest overclocking in a smallish case that won't accommodate the monster fins of the best air coolers. So, no, in my opinion it's not worth it.
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I personally don't trust cheap liquid cooling. I wouldn't recommend it for inexperienced pc builders either.

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[QUOTE="6_Dead_360s"]

Liquid cooling=more maintenance, so if you can put up with it sure.

About the monitor...chances are if it doesn't even come with a cable, it's not worth buying.

GTR12

Right....

So the Dell u2711 isn't worth buying purely for the fact it doesn't come with all the cables?

Don't troll me. I'm simply suggesting that the notion of not haveing one included is a sign of low quality service, and thus, a low quality product.

My Dell U2311H came with both VGA and DVI. You wouldn't be buying a monitor as expensive as the U2711 without already having the proper cable. You just wouldn't do that without knowing that the monitor is good.

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#9 GTR12
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[QUOTE="GTR12"]

[QUOTE="6_Dead_360s"]

Liquid cooling=more maintenance, so if you can put up with it sure.

About the monitor...chances are if it doesn't even come with a cable, it's not worth buying.

6_Dead_360s

Right....

So the Dell u2711 isn't worth buying purely for the fact it doesn't come with all the cables?

Don't troll me. I'm simply suggesting that the notion of not haveing one included is a sign of low quality service, and thus, a low quality product.

My Dell U2311H came with both VGA and DVI. You wouldn't be buying a monitor as expensive as the U2711 without already having the proper cable. You just wouldn't do that without knowing that the monitor is good.

How am I trolling? you stated that a monitor that doesn't come with cables is low quality, my monitor didn't come with a DVI or VGA, even after paying $700 for it, you cant judge a monitor based on cables.

As a matter of fact, when I got my PSU, I specifically asked for the retailer to keep my cable, I have a box full of cables, I dont want anymore, I do that for GPU's as well.