Watercooling worth it over high end air?
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wow good find, what were the rest of the system specs ?
Link is here. Test System is an overclocked 920 C0 @ 3.8. So I assume that the D0's would run cooler and overclock further.
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What size tubing you got mate ?
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Ive got about 2m of unused tygon 1/2" stuff so i will be after some compressions like you i should imagine.
Not the best advert for watercooling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWYvels2miw&feature=related
"thats 3 degrees cooler than the intel stock cooler!"
"thats 3 degrees cooler than the intel stock cooler!"
I posted this in my worklog and in another temps thread, was a couple of days ago. Temps peaked at 59 on core 1, normal range was 56-58 degrees. Fans at 750rpm and pump on speed 2, practically silent. My gpu is also in the loop and has the overclocked powerplay bug so is putting a bit more idle heat in the loop, not masses though.
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I water cooled my rig earlier this year for the challenge and to keep it cooler & quieter.
I suggest doing the research first and get an idea of how much money you're going to need and whether the benefits (and drawbacks) are worth it. Also consider the time you are likely to spend doing it - it can be great fun at first but after the third night of running the WC loop to leak test and waking up to find little spots of coolant in my case I was pretty fed up.
As bifday says, it can get very expensive quickly - I didn't have much change from £700 which in hindsight is insane but I wanted a loop capable of cooling my entire system and got carried away.
If you do go for it, good luck - learn from other people's mistakes, there's nothing more annoying that stopping half way through a build because you've bought the wrong part or it doesn't fit...
As a side note on WC:
If anybody is considering water cooling and has an ASUS mobo with fusion block I'd avoid linking in the fusion block to the watercooling loop. I spent quite a bit of money on nice rads and EK waterblocks and the fusion block corroded and sent rubbish floating round my loop. It was also a pain to get water tight - I never managed it and took it out of the loop.
Regarding space for pumps you can also get reservoir / pump combos from Laing but I'm not sure how good they are.
I suggest doing the research first and get an idea of how much money you're going to need and whether the benefits (and drawbacks) are worth it. Also consider the time you are likely to spend doing it - it can be great fun at first but after the third night of running the WC loop to leak test and waking up to find little spots of coolant in my case I was pretty fed up.
As bifday says, it can get very expensive quickly - I didn't have much change from £700 which in hindsight is insane but I wanted a loop capable of cooling my entire system and got carried away.
If you do go for it, good luck - learn from other people's mistakes, there's nothing more annoying that stopping half way through a build because you've bought the wrong part or it doesn't fit...
As a side note on WC:
If anybody is considering water cooling and has an ASUS mobo with fusion block I'd avoid linking in the fusion block to the watercooling loop. I spent quite a bit of money on nice rads and EK waterblocks and the fusion block corroded and sent rubbish floating round my loop. It was also a pain to get water tight - I never managed it and took it out of the loop.
Regarding space for pumps you can also get reservoir / pump combos from Laing but I'm not sure how good they are.
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My pump is inside my case as well. There are some simplified solutions to watercooling like the swiftech mcr drive series. Available in both 2x120 and 3x120 its a rad, res and pump all in one. Just add a cpu block, fittings and 2 lengths of tubing and off you go.
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Those swiftech things are awesome. But they're probably for entry/basic level wcooling I imagine.
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That is simply embarrassing.
I think very few pumps now go outside the case mate. Watercooling is such a big industry now, it all fits inside the case (you do need a decent sized case mind you).
I'll second Jeffy's reply about the Swiftech rads - I have two in my system (rad only - not the rad/res combo, but essentially the same cooling performance), they're very quiet and seem nicely made. They were also recommended on a large number of forums, sometimes over alternatives such as XSPC or black ice.
