I am buying Chassis/Casing (Gigabyte) Mercury (GZ-FW1CA (ATS/ATB)) for installing these components.i.e. two (MSI) Geforce 8800GTX Graphic cards, (BFG tech) nForce680i motherboard, (Intel) X6800 core2Duo Processor, (Corsair) Dominator TWIN2X2048-6400C4D* memory, (Western digital) Raptor X Hard disk, (Creative) Xi-Fi Fatality1 sound card and DVD writer and Combo drive, and (Enermax) Galaxy 1000watts power supply.

I want to know that do the Liquid cooling solution installed in this Chassis/Casing is better than Air cooling Chassis/Casing. Any drawbacks or limitations. Kindly explain in detail.

Thanks!!!

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Products/Cha...ProductID=2327

Liquid cooling is unquestionably superior to air. It will drop your temps nearly in half which will allow for not only over-clocking but also a very long and happy life of your hardware.

That being said I wish we had more detail on the case system. From the links I see the cooling system is described in vague details:

Built-in liquid cooling system (include pump, radiator, tank set, 2x VGA & Northbridge waterblock)

It does not mention the CPU block nor does it mention if the 2x VGA will work on an SLI installation. Also what is the cost? And who is the manufacturer of the cooling system?

Also we need to know the specific board. nForce680i being the chipset on what BFG board? Is this it:

http://www.bfgtech.com/nForce680i_motherboard.html

Those looking to run larger CPU coolers will be pleased to see that Nvidia has left loads of room around the CPU socket. The capacitors surrounding the socket are low-profile designs, and the board's passive VRM coolers shouldn't get in the way. Extremely large coolers may interfere with the beefy chipset cooler, but we haven't encountered any that do.
Still, we're glad to see the board shipping with silent chipset cooling. The monster north bridge cooler is linked via heatpipe to the board's south bridge, and in testing, we had no problems with instability or overheating. Nvidia does recommend using an included chipset fan for overclocking or water-cooled systems with little ambient airflow, though.

It is again unclear if the Northbridge block from the case would fit this Northbridge motherboard heatsink/pipe-cooler as a fan would.


In the long run it might be best to buy your liquid cooling system independent of the case. In that way you can also get a Liquid system of a better quality would be my experienced guess.



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