What is a good water cooler for the 3930k or 2600k?

Well my grandfather wants a very high end system and has a good amount of money to spare. Can any of you guys suggest some water cooling kits for me? Is the swiftech kit good? http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] 57ac852d53 Also how hard would it be to set it up, as I have no experience on how to do watercooling. But i have learned what each part does and how to setup a kit. Also I am planning on overclocking to 4+ghz!

CPU Block
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=30269
Radiator
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=25388
Pump/Res combo
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] ts_id=4510
Tubing x2
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=23609
Fittings x6
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=30067
Clamps x6
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=25625
Fans x2
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=24747

Is what I'd buy, It comes to roughly $346 which is slighlty more than the swiftech kit, however my setup would perform better due to the thicker rad, excellent fans and better performing block, It'll also look alot nicer

Anyway its just an idea, if your serious about watercooling then you need to do ALOT of research into it and be prepared to take the risk, also maintain the loop...

Air cooling is just alot easier and cheaper and will still keep a 2600K or 3930K @4Ghz cool.

Maybe go air cooling and spend the savings on an SSD or graphics card?

Perhaps 10-20% better. Watercooling isn't worth it unless your going for heavy overclocks (4.6ghz +) otherwise its more hassle than its worth.

remember this is sb-e. Runs much hotter

Why does he need a high end system? I guess it depends on the justification...watercooling isn't really a need for most people, so if you wanted to use that cash for SSDs/RAID/large monitor, etc. If he isn't doing anything incredibly demanding or gaming, you can build a very solid system that will perform as well as a SB-E box. Just because you have the cash, doesn't mean you should overspend on hardware that you'll never use or never be able to value the performance of.

I'm not trying to tell you what to spend money on...just making sure everyone on your end is happy with the decision.

What kind of budget are you looking at for the water loop and what are you wanting to cool?

My Q6600 is running quite well. In fact, I will likely only upgrade GPUs this year and keep that ol' girl a running.

Yeah i'd stick with what these guys said, get a decent closed loop water cooler, and pump more cash into SSD's/PCI-E SSD's or something of the like to limit bottle necks due to Slow drives.. most other water cooled systems are way more hassle to setup than anything, and of course if it leaks your screwed

I bought a Corsair H100 for $89 on boxing day and stuck it on a 2600K at stock GHz.

Temps at idle on low speed setting : 25C

Temps at full load on low speed setting : 46C
( Nero Recode maxing all 8 threads for 30 minutes )

Not suggesting... just what I have.

Eh the problem is when my grandfather has his mind set on one thing, for an example this. He will buy it no matter what, so i can't really convince him to get an i7-2600k...Total budget for the sb-e system is $2000, so I guess 200-400 for a water cooling kit?

I just few days ago changed my CPU water block form OCZ Hydroflow to Swiftech Apogee HD. The new water block is really good. You have the option to use the additional (2) intake & output ports to cool your RAM besides the CPU. It's something you don't have the option with the top Koolance CPU water block.

Swiftech Apogee HD

Remember that when you parallel split your loop, your flow rates halve and your pressure drops by at least as much. While it's a novel idea if you wanted to run essentially dual shared loops with 2 pumps but 'sharing' the same water and reservoir, I'm not a fan of using it as a parallel splitter on a single pump loop.