tube length?

copey

copey

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right, ive just upped to water cooling finally, im just curious does the length of the tubes affect the cooling at all? i went for a thermal take kit and am jus curious to weather shorter tubes or longer tubes would be more affective,

secondly im curious to whats a safe voltage to a q6600 upto, personally i dont feel comfortable taking it over 1.5, but am curious to see if its regular for people to take them higher
 
Shorter the better but make sure it looks good whilst doing it :)

2nd, me and a mate have both taken our Q6600's upto 1.65 before in benching sessions on high end air and water, they seem indestructible but that was just for benching fun, i wouldn't go past 1.55-1.6 for daily use.

(that is well past recommended as well)
 
ok thanks for the heads up, i figured shorter would be better as i figure the flow rate to the cpu be higher and al that, yeh i think im comfortable with 1.5, so 1.55 i wil stretch to, what is th recommend? assuming this is what intel them selves quote
 
Tube length doesn't really make that much difference tbh, it's not significant unless you have metres of tube...

I've taken my q6600 up to 1.4v, no need to go higher for me...
 
well at about 1.4ish i can get a stable 3.3 running prime 95 for hours, i did push te voltage a little more, still under 1.5, but prime 95 would only run for a few hours...but i it would run 3dmark and all games etc fine
 
another thing im struggling to get my head around, is the whole fsb/ram divider, is it better to jus unlink them?
 
you may find that the kit you have bought may struggle keeping it cool with those volts, many reviews say high end air is better than their kits.

just make sure you keep an eye on your temps :)
 
I managed to remove around 18" of tubing from my cooling after my first attempt at fitting them I left lots of headway incase I wanted to move anything around. My load temps on my current max o/c dropped by 3 degrees and that was with fresh as5 and air still needing bled from tubes.
 
copey said:
well i had an artic freezer 7 before, and at 3 gig loaded up with stock voltages it went way above the threshold, with this kit im hitting 3,3 and 55 on load with increased voltage
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Well, do be fair, 55 under load isn't bad at all!

I'm hitting 80 under load, but then my fans speed up... I'm running at 3.6 so not much difference....
 
yeh i guess so, i think its like anything cpu wise, sometimes ule get a cpu that can clock higher than the rest etc, so sometimes guess cooling components will cool better than others...even tho there the same product
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Well, do be fair, 55 under load isn't bad at all!

I'm hitting 80 under load, but then my fans speed up... I'm running at 3.6 so not much difference....
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a way i always look at is tho, when really is ure cpu ever going to hit 100%load on ure everday computer useage
 
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