is this any good or a pile of ***p?

BIGBC said:
Thats a lot of tubing your using there.
How much did it all cost you though ?
No1s saying that water cooling is worse than air, its just you have to do it properly.
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I have put in some slack on the two pipes to the res so I can pull it out the front thru the 2x3.5" bays for topping up. Only had six inches of pipe left over, so good job I didn't **** up on the measuring.

I spent more than I needed to and got a kit from Swiftec....only the best for Jezzer of course, although I could, now looking back, have done it all from recycled stuff and cost me next to nothing apart from the waterblocks.

Very happy with results apart from stupid little ram sinks on the gfx card mem...have seen an idea of gluing brass nipples to them and running a loop thru...any suggestions?
 
Mattus said:
I didn't say there was no point in water... I said:



You have what I'd describe as 'doing it properly'. I meant that there's no point in the £50 pre-made kits.
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Yes you are right, the complete plug 'n' play jobbies are just that, jobbies. You just have to read the prof reviews to know that.

as an aside, I will be experimenting with dropping half my rad into a bucket of iced water to see just how far I can push my proc and gfx card.

my max before was 360mhz stable...but have had it running prime at 405mhz without any glitching.
 
Occooler said:
I looked into that coolit domino kit and took similair advice thats being offered here and got an expensive air cooler instead.

That said, does it perform better than air at high ambient temps?
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No! You have the same air being pushed thru the rad as you have thru the HSF....so no real diff there.
 
Jezzer said:
Yes you are right, the complete plug 'n' play jobbies are just that, jobbies. You just have to read the prof reviews to know that.

as an aside, I will be experimenting with dropping half my rad into a bucket of iced water to see just how far I can push my proc and gfx card.

my max before was 360mhz stable...but have had it running prime at 405mhz without any glitching.
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You may be happy with yours but cooling a mild clocked duo is a lot different than a core i7 at 4Ghz. Theres no way that kit could handle a core i7 set up (GPU,CPU,mobo).
 
How does the ek supreme cope with the i7? I guess you need a new mounting plate and backplate at least, but beyond that are youi pleased with it?

Coming from someone with an ek supreme who's starting to want an i7 system :)
 
My Supreme came with the correct bracket for an i7, but I haven't bothered getting a backplate. I'm getting load temps of 70-75c through a Black Ice Stealth 240 which I'm happy with. It's the best looking block on the market IMO, I got the clear top.
 
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