Air, Water, Phase?

[Schnippzle]

I heard he Siphons Pluto's -280c nitrogen gas supply directly to his passively cooled cpu

-280c???? isnt that physically impossible?....or am I thinking of an diff absolute zero degrees :S

 

[sablabra]

-280c???? isnt that physically impossible?....or am I thinking of an diff absolute zero degrees :S

Not possible. Coldest would be 0 Kelvin or approximately -273 degrees celsius

I've been using water cooling for a good few years now, I don't want to go back

 

[Hesky82]

ok im a good 10c under absolute zero kelvin, but its still freakin cold being that far away from the sun! and getting near zero thermal energy.

 

[kitfit1]

24/7, i run phase myself. Mine is fairly quiet, certainly more so than kick **s air cooling. When i want to crank it up for benching, i can .

 

[Pneumonic]

ah but you see he uses his special overclocking brainwave powers to bend the laws of physics

 

[Adam_D200]

I'd recommend that everyone has a play with H2O cooling at some point but unless you design it well to exceed your heatload then you may not improve much upon air cooling. Its a headache for changing components too and removal (again could have been avoided through better design and an externally mounted rad in my case).

Looks pretty though and has a pimp factor about it

 

[PinkFloyd]

I find removing a cpu waterblock for a processer swap is a damn site less effort than a air cooling heatisnk.

Few bolts that just unscrew, lift it off, slip the new chip in, thermalpaste, screw the block back on. Simple
No big huge lumps of metal with screws and clips you can't reach and tend to always cut you

 

[Darkman]

Custom watercooling all the way.

It's cool, quiet and fun to set up.

 

[Hesky82]

I find removing a cpu waterblock for a processer swap is a damn site less effort than a air cooling heatisnk.

Few bolts that just unscrew, lift it off, slip the new chip in, thermalpaste, screw the block back on. Simple
No big huge lumps of metal with screws and clips you can't reach and tend to always cut you

yeah if your mb is already it the case big heatsinks are a pain in the but to fit!

 

[marscay]

water for a nice 24/7 overclock with minimal noise depending on your setup of course.

phase for benching and e-peen, been there done that now i'm all water but i could probably handle all air rigs now too ...air cooling has improved immensely.