My project is to build a water-cooled PC, so that I can

1. overclock it higher than with air cooling
2. get the experience of building a water-cooled setup
3. run a quiet PC
4. actually be able to play UT3, COD4, etc., at all

The new machine will replace an existing air-cooled 1.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 3000 processor and Radeon 9800 Pro graphics setup, which was fine until Unreal Tournament 3 was released. Having bought that game, I quickly realised that I wasn't going to be able to continue my fragging activities until I upgraded the hardware.

I originally started this project at the end of 2007, but due to various reasons it got shelved. Picked it up again a few weeks ago in June 2008 and started researching again in earnest. I expected to see that the technology of water-cooling had moved on in the intervening months, but was surprised to find that no, really they haven't.

I'm not into phase-change cooling or anything fancy like that, and I'm not even looking for an extreme overclock, but I did think some new water-cooling products would have emerged in eight months.

I have done a lot of reading of the Xtreme Systems forums on liquid cooling and overclocking and found this immensely helpful to a first-time water-cooler like myself, so thanks to all there!

Anyway, may as well start with the case - the simply gorgeous Coolermaster Cosmos-S RC1100



Coolermaster Cosmos-S RC1100 - £138 from Novatech in Reading back in April 2008, this case is made with overclocking in mind.

















More pics soon when I get the hang of this blogging tool...