Water Cooling in a hot room

Teamon

Teamon

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Hi,

I will be building a new computer soon and I was looking for advice on water cooling, since I haven't done that before. I have a tiny bedroom, which gets very hot. To make matters worse, the only place I can put my PC is under the desk near the radiator. Now my current PC is okay with this, just about:
Athlon XP 3800+ (single core)
Geforce 6600GT etc...
...all air cooled

The Processor gets up to 70 degrees C under heavy load and the graphics card has hit close to 100 degrees C before now with it's stock cooler. I was looking for a quad core CPU and a 9800gtx for my next machine so cooling is going to be a big problem. I was looking at the Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra+ Watercooling Kit but I have no idea how good this would be in a hot environment. Would it be better than air cooling?

Any advice would be appreciated as I really cannot put the computer anywhere else because of how the room is designed.

Thanks
 
I'd say you'd be ok.

Watercooling should allow you to achieve temps closer to ambient so even if your room was in the high 20's you'd still be ok.

I think the swiftech kit will do you great and is a quality one-shot solution.

I couldn't imagine you seeing temps anywhere close to what you're getting at the moment.

Just make sure that you're not drawing the hot air directly from the hot house radiator. ;)

gt
 
I'm in *** same thing as you.

My room can easily hit 30degrees. I used to get 60-70 load. On a 3.4ghz e6600

Went to water to improve my overclocking. I can now not get over 55-60degrees load at 3.6ghz quad - thats on a really hot day. Usually about 45-50

Watercooling i have found is all about a decent water and air flow. To disperce the heat as quick as possible.

Do you have a budget? If its £100 max the Swiftech kit is your best bet, if not get a custom kit and your laughing.
 
Thanks waso_dude. This is actually the first PC that I have ever built that I aren't putting a budget against. As long as it doesn't go crazy I'm okay (I think anything over 2k for a PC is a bit much as they devalue to quickly).
 
I know what you mean about the radiator. But it's one of those annoying rooms that are cold in winter, but when you put the radiator on you bake. Turn it off and 15 mins later you are freezing again. It's an old heating system so there is no thermostat either.
 
Teamon said:
I know what you mean about the radiator. But it's one of those annoying rooms that are cold in winter, but when you put the radiator on you bake. Turn it off and 15 mins later you are freezing again. It's an old heating system so there is no thermostat either.
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Exactly the same as mine. My pc is watercooled, but is in a converted attic, under a desk, in front of the radiator. I have a feeling the intense heat from the rad is seeping into the tubes, and heating up the radiator. This has the effect of turning the radiator (cooling) into a radiator (heating), increasing temps.

I didn't notice a great difference in temperatures going from a Tuniq Tower, to a custom wc build inc PA120.3
 
bledd. said:
turn the radiator off
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indeed, ive had my radiator off and the window open for 2 years (i only will close it if its hail or crazy weather). and my room is around 23 degrees.

dont really get why people have radiators in south england, and i really dont get how old people die over winter due to cold, when its not even cold.

i would probably collapse in your room
 
It depends where exactly the PC is standing, if it's next to a radiator then watercooling will actually make your temps higher as was said earlier. The room temp might be 23C but next to radiator it might be 50 or 60C. Move the PC as far away from the radiator as possible and it will be fine even in a very hot room.
 
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