I was thinking about switching to a water cooling on my cpu and maybe my north bridge on my ASUS A7N8X, what is the best setup for this? anyone have any opinions? or can you just buy the heat sinks somewhere and make your own? I was trying to think of ways to do it, I would like to just get the heat sinks and use my own pumps and stuff, anyone know where to get these? how much cooler will the CPU run with a regular water cooling system? i have a volcano 9 right now and my 2500 runs at 105f - 114f

A lot of guys build their own. Go to http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/ and under cooling they have a water cooling forum and search on "cooling rig" or "home made" and you'll get all the advice you could ever want on pre-made kits or building your own. Make sure you do not overestimate water cooling however. The water becomes hotter than ambient air pretty quickly and while you will get lower temps than you have currently, you'll of course still be above ambient and in the range that is also acheiveable with a top air cooler with a strong fan. The advantage of water cooling is low noise to go with the low temps. I would be curious to see how an slk-900 with a 35mm x 92mm 115cfm fan on it would stack up against the best water coolers. Even with just an 80mm fan used on the heatsink review (at the same link above), the slk-900 finished in a virtual tie with their best water cooling system. Of course the reason for this is you're not going to put a big strong fan on your water cooling radiator because then you lose the low-noise benefit. But if you had the new nvidia FX vid card you wouldn't notice the cooler noise anyway - lol. The new Aero7 cooler from coolermaster is supposed to beat every air cooler. Gotta like the fan. Weighs twice what amd recommends for a heatsink! Goes for $35. Nice fan speed control knob that mounts under your floppy drive as opposed to a pci slot. http://www4.tomshardware.com/business/20030319/cebit2003_final-05.html http://www.motherboardexpress.com/specs/spec_adv.cfm?ProductID=17713 The new "SubZero4" thermoelectric cooler was supposed to make a big splash but it goes for $170 and is reportedly no better than a decent water cooler and costs more. http://www.svc.com/thsuteccofor.html