1898057

Liquid cooling

March 26th, 2005 01:56 PM

liquid cooling your rig qould you do it yes or no

i am going to once i get BF2 so i can over clock my chip to a 3.2ghz from a stock 2.4ghz and it is quieter than my fan set up i got 8 cans 4 in a big sheet an 2 deep making a huge fan vacum an runs under 97F an at idle 90F

wahts your take on cooling

1898307

Re: Liquid cooling

March 26th, 2005 04:00 PM

I have a liquid cooled Koolance setup, theyr really nice n quiet once u waterblack the cup, video, and mobo. But are ya sure its wise to OC the crap out of your cpu like that... just cause its watercooled doesnt mean it wont melt... be careful.

1898372

Re: Liquid cooling

March 26th, 2005 04:46 PM

I would do it. I would like to do it, in fact, just for peace of mind. Only problem is, I'm too lazy to do it, and I'm too tight-fisted to shell out for the equipment to do it.
I'm fine with the idea of doing it, though. Eventually we're going to have to start doing it, if only because the noise of the fans needed to cool future components will damage the building you're in and drive you completely insane.

1898395

Re: Liquid cooling

March 26th, 2005 05:01 PM

Liquid cooling is pretty hard to do right, You can buy an aquarius III (:lol: ) (or a similar kit) cheaply and it would be easy enough to install but honestly it would not be a great deal better than a good fan and heatsink combo and could even be worse.
If you want to do a good job and get good results you have to be prepared to put alot of time, money and effort into it. It will probably take a good weekends worth of messing about to make sure the system is leak/air free and working properly.
Unless you have the cash to fork out for some good equipment i would not bother with watercooling.

Get some Arctic silver 7(?), a big copper heatskink and a few 120mm fans and you sould be able to get a decent overclock outta that P4.

1898481

Re: Liquid cooling

March 26th, 2005 05:44 PM

I'm in the process of converting my current rig to water, something that requires a new case. It's going slow, since I've also decided to swap mobos as well, so I get to play the numbers game with money. The new Xeon rig I'm putting together will also be watercooled.

For posterity's sake, this rig (uniprocessor) will use a copper Danger Den TDX block, a Black Ice Xtreme II radiator (as I can't be bothered to make a heatercore mount nicely), and a DDC-12V pump (also found as the Swiftech MCP350). I'll likely toss in one of Swiftech's fill/bleed kits, a GPU block (Maze 4 or NV68, card-dependant), and plumb it all with Tygon R3603.
The Xeons will get similar treatment, but with two TDX blocks and either a modded MCP350 or the Laing D4 (MCP650).

Don't try to go the watercooling route unless:
-You're willing to shell out some cash. A good setup will run you at least $200, plus all the work to set it up.
-You're willing to research and learn.
-You're willing to build your own. Metal's right: those kits "work," but not very well. And they're far from being idiot-proof.

And FWIW, my 3E (still on air) is running at 3.75GHz now; 4GHz is possible temp-wise, but my motherboard doesn't supply enough current to handle speeds that high. 3.85 would probably be stable, however.