I've decided to get liquid cooling and then hopefully do some OC on the cpu and gpu.I was hoping to get some advice from some liquid cooling enthusiasts, is there a benefit to buying all the parts separately as opposed to buying a kit or a LC case like a thermal-take of some sort ? . Also what size psu will i need once i have a liquid cooled system ,

( specs 8800 ultra hopefully OC'd intel core 2 duo e6600 OC'd ... 2gb ram , 150gb raptor HD a couple of optical drives and of course the the watter cooling system once i get it.)

Also if at all possible could some one post some info or sources on water cooling setups and guides of some sort so i can start some were . any feed back is appreciated.

Xaiden

I would recomend buying all your parts seperate, while it is a pain in the ass it allows for far more control of your water cooling. Tom's Hardware has some good stuff and so does maximum pc, allthough they are kinda old. if you gie me a budget i can recomend you some parts for your syestem.

I fell asleep watching a movie on my laptop last night, when I woke up to my externanal HDD making a shrill screach/scraching noise that apparently happened from it being knocked over while i fell assleep. When I pluged it back in the autoplay was not working and my computer was not reconizing that a disc was was pluged in.

I'm using a 500 GB external USB 2.0 Seagate HDD it is externally powered

and A R51 IBM Thinkpad notebook, and I don't think it is an issue with the usb ports because they still work with a mouse and keyboard.

Any Help would be awesome,

Also if my drive is broken can I still get my files off?

Im spending at most $50 or a little more on the keyboard and im not sure about the mouse.

Im a sucker for things that glow (preferibly blue glow)

So any recomendations?

henriktx

To Get ur LED Glow on with out all the extra crap I would go with a Saitek Eclipse II it lights up Blue Purple and Red and has a nice volume control nob and music controls also unlike the razer products I have tried this board is very easy to see in the dark

Im spending at most $50 or a little more on the keyboard and im not sure about the mouse.

Im a sucker for things that glow (preferibly blue glow)

So any recomendations?

henriktx

To Get ur LED Glow on with out all the extra crap I would go with a Saitek Eclipse II it lights up Blue Purple and Red and has a nice volume control nob and music controls also unlike the razer products I have tried this board is very easy to see in the dark

Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000

Power Supply: Rocketfish 700W

Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 640 GB, 3 GB/s, 16MB Cache, 7200 RPM

OS: Windows Vista 32-Bit

Monitor: Acer 22" Widescreen LCD

Case: NZXT Lexa Blackline

just wondering if this is good build

-Gijutsu-

either switch the GPU or MOBO if you ever wanna crossfire/SLI