Another water cooler... Or not?

Arcimbaldo

Arcimbaldo

Arcimbaldo

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Hey all just thought id share what i found with you the other day,
I'm not sure if its been posted before but hey, might as well.

Basically it is called the Hailea HC-500A and instead of being your average water cooler it acts in the same way as an everyday fridge or freezer.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2010/07/20/hailea-hc-500a-water-chiller-review/1

That is the bit-tech review for it.
It does have a steep price tag (400) however being the water cooling noob that i am i have no idea what your average water cooling kit costs.
Figures:
They used and i7 980x hex core for testing, and managed to get it to an outstanding 5GHZ!
It idled at 30 Degrees C and at full load was at 47 Degrees C
Now that's impressive.

However as previously said i am a water cooling noob so i will let you guys make your mind up on this.

Arcimbaldo
 
well no doubt its good from the results but you need a good cpu to do that.

could could do your own loop for around £250 and get that chip to 4ghz or over
 
Looks ok, like the idea of the fact you can have extra long pipe work and have the unit away from the pc.

Price tag does seem on the expensive side, as you still need to add the water blocks and pipe work on top.
 
Do you recon these would be fairly futureproof in terms of cooling performance?
A friend of a friend is building a very high end computer and needs high end cooling for it as well. So i was going to recommend this to him, it will be for cooling the 980x.
And as i am not very good on water cooling is there anything else he will need apart cpu, gpu and chipset blocks? a radiator or anything?

Thanks
 
For that unit you need a strong pump, Swiftech MCP655, CPU block and any other blocks you will need plus tubing and fittings.

Due to the way the unit works a radiator would be working against as it would be absorbin
g heat from the atmosphere rather than cooling the loop.


You would also have to think about isulating components such as mobo and cpu and the loop would be below ambient.

Chilled water is not for the feint hearted.
 
frozennova said:
For that unit you need a strong pump, Swiftech MCP655, CPU block and any other blocks you will need plus tubing and fittings.

Due to the way the unit works a radiator would be working against as it would be absorbin
g heat from the atmosphere rather than cooling the loop.


You would also have to think about isulating components such as mobo and cpu and the loop would be below ambient.

Chilled water is not for the feint hearted.
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Ok so how would the loop actually work?
The chiller would send the water to the pump which would then send the water to each individual component?
And how would the water get its way back to the chiller, via the pump im guessing?

is there not a worry with water chillers tho about condensation build up ?
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As for this i think he is planning to use a type of thermal putty, building it around the block of each component then sending it to a point where the drips can fall outside of the case into a tray or something?
I'm not 100% sure of this at the moment.
 
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