Back to Aircooling from Watercooling

Ice Tea · 7 Dec 2006 at 23:19

Any long time watercoolers gone back to Aircooling now that pipecoolers are closing the gap on both noise and performance .?

ifso what do you think of aircooling now and do you miss watercooling ?

Booner! · 7 Dec 2006 at 23:50

just making the transisition tomorrow. Shall report back!

Moving from Koolance Exos 2 kit on an AMD 4000+

To ->

Artic Freezer 7 with a Core duo E6600.

I will move to a tuniq tower when Xmas is over :cool:

mrthingyx · 8 Dec 2006 at 11:36

Booner! said:
Moving from Koolance Exos 2 kit on an AMD 4000+

The Koolance doesn't count.

agw_01 · 8 Dec 2006 at 11:48

I had a custom watercooling setup on my old Mobile 2500+ @ 2.5GHz.

Used to run 40°c idle and 45° full load with very low noise levels... not to mention it looked uber in a case full of cold cathodes. Used to get loads of comments about it from my friends.

Now, I'm back on air (stock AMD cooler

) with an Athlon 64 2800+ 2.1GHz. It currently hits 54°c after a few hours of Prime95, and the noise levels are just annoying.

Hoping to get back into watercooling after Christmas, when I'll have a nice case to fit it all into.

marscay · 8 Dec 2006 at 12:11

air cooling might have improved loads but you can't beat a nice WC'd rig doing cpu/gpu/nb which is quiet versus an all air solution imo.

gurusan · 8 Dec 2006 at 12:24

a good water setup will always be better.

Booner! · 8 Dec 2006 at 12:36

mrthingyx said:
The Koolance doesn't count.

And why not? Its got water and everything the same as a watercooling setup, its just a kit thats all

kchakkar · 8 Dec 2006 at 12:42

I've gone from water to air, then back to water. With air, the internal temps are high because the cpu and gpu heatsink fans just circulate the air inside the case. Also case fans with good cpm are required to remove all the hot air inside, this creates a lot of noise. With my watercooling I have turned the external fans off and the loudest thing is my psu at the moment.

I have watercooled both my CPU and GPU.

w3bbo · 8 Dec 2006 at 13:24

I'm lucky enough to have 2 pc's, one Air cooled one watercooled. Apart from the better temps and noise volume of the watercooling setup I would love to go back to air as maintenance/upgrading is so much easier with aircooling. Temps and noise prevent me from doing so though.