OC Q6600 on water ?

HHM · 15 Sep 2007 at 13:33

Seems like air coolers like Thermalright Ultra 120Ultra 120 eXtreme will take
Q6600 to around 3.6 Ghz ,... how much better would that be using water ?

Sorry but I have not seen any good examples surfing the net so far, so I am
about to believe that messing with water is not worth the trouble in this case

Compared to results I saw years back I would assume that far over 4 Ghz
should be possible, especially since HEAT seems to be the major bottleneck

then again air-cooler might have been so much better lately

Thanks for any help,... I am soon deciding on a new cooler

w3bbo · 15 Sep 2007 at 13:38

The gap has certainly closed with the latest breed of aircoolers around but there is still a significant margin between air and water cooling.

HHM · 15 Sep 2007 at 13:51

w3bbo said:
The gap has certainly closed with the latest breed of aircoolers around but there is still a significant margin between air and water cooling.

Thanks for the answer, and conforming that the gap is simply smaller now,
after posting I saw your sig with 3.8 Ghz on water, so I guess the gap can
be described as aproximately 200 Mhz, (from 3.6-3.8), both solid working, it
is a little gap I would say, so guess I stick to air,.. but still 3.8 does impress
it must be a pleasure to work with this speed :cool:

My latest OC was 2-3 years ago, dual xeon D1´s 1.6 @ 3.0 on ASUS PC-DL

now I decided to up for Q6600 due to video-editing system being build

HHM · 15 Sep 2007 at 17:25

Hmmmm ,... things took a turn to the unexpected

There is not space enough in my codegen cabinet to use one of the airbased
tower-coolers like Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme so I will maybe still consider
a easy water solution like Swiftech H20 120 Compact Kit, would such kit take
me to the 3.8 Ghz level likely,.. or does that take extreme water-cooling ???

Thanks for any help

http://www.swiftnets.com/products/h20-120-compact.asp

tsinc80697 · 15 Sep 2007 at 22:57

let me know how that ^ goes if you do get one or read a few reviews.

Might go to WC myself but mainly just for CPU and maybe 8800, its only relaly the CPU that gets hot in my case!

Cob · 16 Sep 2007 at 00:30

tsinc80697 said:
let me know how that ^ goes if you do get one or read a few reviews.

I think Walter implied that he found it to be no better than the high-end air coolers.