Overclocking Possible Using Waterchill..

b.cummins · 10 Apr 2006 at 02:02

I've recently considered moving to water cooling, the first thing I'm getting is an Antec P180 for the sake of the efficient cooling. But that besides, I'm only interested in overclocking my CPU so i'll only be getting a CPU kit. I was looking at the Asetek Waterchill XTREME CPU cooling kit comes with a pump/reservoir, 120mm radiator with triple fans and an antartica cpu block..

My set up is An Asus A8N32 Sli, AMD X2 4800, gonna be getting geforce 8's etc but the only thing to worry about is the board and cpu since thats all im overclocking. With good case cooling the MOBO will be fine cos of the passive heatpipes, probably only go to FSB 250mhz anyway.

With the cpu triple radiator fan chilled, Could I overclock to 3ghz and keep sound temps, what sort of voltage would i need to put into it? The stepping would Obv be 250FSB/12X to make the 3ghz. Anyone got any suggestions?

Zefan · 10 Apr 2006 at 02:12

I've heard P180's aren't the best for w/c. Better read up to confirm that though.

b.cummins · 10 Apr 2006 at 13:56

Zefan said:
I've heard P180's aren't the best for w/c. Better read up to confirm that though.

ok
can u recommend any particular cases?

Zefan · 10 Apr 2006 at 13:59

Big roomy ones, I know the P180 is roomy, but it's got a lot of little compartments. If you're going to be mounting the RAD externally I recommend getting one with pre-cut holes in the back for the tubing. I have a gigabyte 3D Aurora which has this and it's pretty good. A case whore should be able to recommend a decent w/c case, probably going to be an old school stacker or an Akasa.

BubbySoup · 10 Apr 2006 at 14:36

Lian Li PC71

Enough room to mount pretty much anything on/in them and far nicer than those Stacker things

R B Customs · 10 Apr 2006 at 18:03

without sounding bias,
the gigabyte 3D aurora is superb for watercooling, specialy if your after a double 120mm rad.
it has pre drilled space to fit on snug on the back, rad outside, fans inside for the slimline approach.
its also nice and wide to give you plenty of room for big radius loops in the tubing.
and as soemone said before theres holes with rubber linings ont he back to thread the tubes through.
as for the pump ive taken the toolbox out ( 2 screws) of the lower HDD tray and i ahve the pum sitting on some sponge down there, again with enough space to run the tubing out the cage and by the side fo the case.