How does water cooling work?

MikeTimbers · 28 Jul 2006 at 23:20

Raikiri said:
Dreadi... post above yours was sarcasm.

ssshhhhh!

Gashman · 29 Jul 2006 at 14:12

Bundles said:
Thermaltake tbh.

If you can't see why people don't bother with water because air cooling is better then you really really should have paid attention in science at school.

got it spot on, water is better than air because water is a better conductor of heat, air is so terrible at it, which i why they use radiators with huge surface area and then have a fan blowing air through it. so if you don't know why to use watercooling, just slap yourself now :confused:

Varone · 29 Jul 2006 at 21:39

What if you had a watercooling system which instead of having a radiator cooled by air, was cooled by a watercooling system? Would that have any affect?

JRS · 29 Jul 2006 at 22:15

Varone said:
What if you had a watercooling system which instead of having a radiator cooled by air, was cooled by a watercooling system? Would that have any affect?

By that you mean cooling the water with a chiller unit?

Mikebert4 · 30 Jul 2006 at 00:02

Varone said:
What if you had a watercooling system which instead of having a radiator cooled by air, was cooled by a watercooling system? Would that have any affect?

hmmm... but what would cool the water cooling the water? air? or more water?

pfft! there are advantages to watercooling. (in order of importance)

1. Better heat transfer with water than air
2. You can move the heat to where you want it, not relying on cooling a heatsink using hot case-air
3. Rad's have MUCH more surface area than Heatsinks
4. it looks awesome