Caught the watercooling bug....

Dominic-Toretto · 21 May 2018 at 22:09

Originally was just going too have a CPU only loop, but now after hearing the silence of my PC compared to before, that is until my GPU spins up like a bloody fighter jet!

I have ordered a GTX1080TI Waterblock to slot in to the loop.

Seems worth it lol

Skorpion · 22 May 2018 at 00:54

Nice and quiet...good luck with it

Habakkuk · 22 May 2018 at 19:42

Have you increased your case fans to cool the VRM?

It's usually passively cooled by the CPU's heatsink - unless you have a monoblock.

Smffy · 23 May 2018 at 19:01

Habakkuk said:
Have you increased your case fans to cool the VRM?

It's usually passively cooled by the CPU's heatsink - unless you have a monoblock.

No it isn’t, it’s passivley cooled by the heatsinks on the motherboard attached to it UNLESS you have a monoblock which takes over when you remove them. Which is the point of Monoblocks...

Habakkuk · 24 May 2018 at 05:03

Did I miss him saying he has a Monoblock?

He explicitly said he was planning a CPU-only loop, now he's adding in a GPU Waterblock too.

Smffy said:
No it isn’t, it’s passivley cooled by the heatsinks on the motherboard attached to it UNLESS you have a monoblock which takes over when you remove them. Which is the point of Monoblocks...

It's passively cooled by the fan on the CPU's heatsink - the bit that gets removed when watercooling.

Smffy · 24 May 2018 at 06:59

Habakkuk said:
Did I miss him saying he has a Monoblock?

He explicitly said he was planning a CPU-only loop, now he's adding in a GPU Waterblock too.

It's passively cooled by the fan on the CPU's heatsink - the bit that gets removed when watercooling.

The fan on the CPU is not passively cooling anything as that’s actively drawing air on/off the CPU sink. If you take the CPU sink off and waterblock it the motherboard heatsinks are still doing the same job, same need for case airflow it’s nothing new.

The board VRM cooling is not designed to be cooled by warm air on a CPU, no you didn’t miss anything I’m simply pointing out the new WC guy doesn’t need to worry about cooling their VRM because they have the CPU blocked that’s just silly, if anything it’s putting less warm air inside the case reducing its air temperature.

bcfc0703 · 24 May 2018 at 14:48

Welcome to the watercooling club anyway AlphaMale1 and say goodbye to lots of £10.00 notes

Dominic-Toretto · 24 May 2018 at 19:14

Habakkuk said:
Have you increased your case fans to cool the VRM?

It's usually passively cooled by the CPU's heatsink - unless you have a monoblock.

First time I have heard of this, would have thought the air being blown off the CPU heat sink would be warm anyway.
My case is open air

Smffy · 24 May 2018 at 22:23

AlphaMale1 said:
First time I have heard of this, would have thought the air being blown off the CPU heat sink would be warm anyway.
My case is open air

Exactly why I commented what I did above don’t worry about it mate

koooowweeee · 27 May 2018 at 06:28

bcfc0703 said:
Welcome to the watercooling club anyway AlphaMale1 and say goodbye to lots of £10.00 notes

This.

Soon you'll want another radiator, but then you'll need a bigger case. More fans for the other rad. Then you might want a new Res/pump combo..... It's goes on and on. Then you wish you stuck with air hahaha

bcfc0703 · 3 Jun 2018 at 20:01

koooowweeee said:
This.

Soon you'll want another radiator, but then you'll need a bigger case. More fans for the other rad. Then you might want a new Res/pump combo..... It's goes on and on. Then you wish you stuck with air hahaha

Amen to that!

Jamin280672 · 4 Jun 2018 at 14:39

koooowweeee said:
This.

Soon you'll want another radiator, but then you'll need a bigger case. More fans for the other rad. Then you might want a new Res/pump combo..... It's goes on and on. Then you wish you stuck with air hahaha

LMAO, story of my life, just changed my rads a couple of months ago, and got new fans this weekend just gone, got a few parts on the way from OCuk, should be here on Wednesday, ever decreasing bank balance

Awahwah · 4 Jun 2018 at 16:39

koooowweeee said:
This.

Soon you'll want another radiator, but then you'll need a bigger case. More fans for the other rad. Then you might want a new Res/pump combo..... It's goes on and on. Then you wish you stuck with air hahaha

True, I've only (couple of months ago) built my first loop. I'm already eyeing up a new Rad and Fans, so far I've resisted which is very good for I as my will power is normally weak.

koooowweeee · 4 Jun 2018 at 20:47

Awahwah said:
True, I've only (couple of months ago) built my first loop. I'm already eyeing up a new Rad and Fans, so far I've resisted which is very good for I as my will power is normally weak.

I used to change mine all the time. Upgrading, downgradibg, side grading haha after a while I just realized I was wasting a load of time and money and sold the lot .

I left it a good year and then build a water cooled rig and I'm leaving it at that. No benching no overclocking just gaming in silence

faheemrazzaq · 7 Jun 2018 at 10:42

I read above posts and my eyes are wet.

Life with water cooling.