Advanced Guide to Overclocking & Cooling

Jokester · 26 Apr 2012 at 17:50

Aye it could do with tarting up.

s4mmy007 · 8 Jul 2012 at 00:13

Done my first water cooling loop with a EK 240 Watercooling kit, was scared like hell before haha, but once i had done it and completed it, cools like a beast, and was very very easy, surprised me.

GoggleZ · 24 Jun 2013 at 23:30

Good info, sorting my i3570k out for around 4.5

gmengg · 18 Jul 2013 at 06:48

It's a good post. Links are very useful. Thanks for sharing.

BigBANGtheory · 1 Sep 2013 at 09:25

Does moving from a decent air cooler to a good water cooling loop offer more overclocking headroom on the recent Intel CPUs? Forget the noise improvements for a moment I'm interesting in pure OC performance gains if spending £300+ on a custom cooling solution...

Jokester · 1 Sep 2013 at 09:45

BigBANGtheory said:
Does moving from a decent air cooler to a good water cooling loop offer more overclocking headroom on the recent Intel CPUs? Forget the noise improvements for a moment I'm interesting in pure OC performance gains if spending £300+ on a custom cooling solution...

It might allow you to push a bit more volts through the chip, whilst still keeping temperatures under control getting you maybe 100MHz, but wouldn't expect more than that to be honest.

peggyschalk · 31 Oct 2013 at 12:35

Yes! Thanks for this Information! Now I know better!

kaka4200 · 30 Jul 2014 at 09:48

Really handy guide, thank u

Trunkey · 3 Jul 2015 at 00:07

Is Marci still around? what's he up to nowadays?

dreamcat4 · 8 Sep 2015 at 13:03

An awesome guide. I never knew about these phase change systems existed for PCs until today. Everybody just talks about watercooling instead. Which is allright but doesn't gain very much over air cooling.