right i need some honest advice, i have been toying with the thought of watercooling for quite sometime, but im starting to wonder if theres really any point? i live in the north of england and its never particularly scorching hot here, room temperature isn't high in the slightest, running venice processor, 7600GT (in SLI soon) and i have a thermaltake soprano case. would watercooling make much of a difference over my CNPS9500 at 2.75Ghz or would it be a waste of time? thanks
Any Point In Watercooling For Me?
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It would be a fair few degrees cooler and probably quieter but unless you want a higher overclock or that degree of quietness and if your current system is stable and adequately quiet, I doubt it would be worthwhile.
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For me, watercooling is more about lifting the limits that aircooling places on the system. You're right in that good aircooling can often be close to watercooling in a stock or low-clocked system, but watercooling has a much greater heat capacity, allowing more over-volting (see my sig).
It is, often, quieter too.
I guess it depends on how hard you clock your system.
It is, often, quieter too.
I guess it depends on how hard you clock your system.
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Gashman said:
To be honest you have a good CPU cooler, and the 7600GTs are pretty cool running, I don't think watercooling would benefit you all that much, and its not a cheap venture.
I thought about it when i ran a 3700 cpu. I used an xp120 with that which kept idle temps at 24 and load at 30 (in scotland so room temps about 15). That was with 1.54v and that allowed 3.1ghz. I put a couple of big fans blowing over heatsink with side panel off and it got temps down 3 degrees or so, made a hell of a lot of noise and did nothing extra for clocks so water wouldnt have helped me unless i used more volts but it was needing big volts to go higher so i left it at that with air.
Now on dual core and they run much hotter with much lower volts. Water on these will really help so thats why ive just gone across
Now on dual core and they run much hotter with much lower volts. Water on these will really help so thats why ive just gone across
i was shocked how cool 7600GTs actually run, im getting 40*C overclocked to 655 on the core at idle, room temperature was warm cause it was nice and sunny outside 29*C, im not sure if load speed will be much greater cause it seems its running at same speed in 2D and 3D applications. getting another for SLI in a few weeks, and i doubt the whole SLI warmspot thing between the two cards is gonna increase the temperature by more than 1 or 2*C.
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you have a great clock on your venice on air imho, i wouldnt bother with the hassle of watercooling. You may find you might not get more out of your CPU once you switch.
For me watercooling wasn't so much an attempt to better my cooling capabilities, more of an experiment to see if I could do it. As it happens, the increase in cooling was definately noticeable and it's a lot quieter... more importantly, it looks awesome. And we all know that looks mean waaay more then quietness or performance right? 