I started out with a mobile barton and 9800 pro that were both great overclockers that got me hooked. Tried watercooling and it was really good fun cutting up my case and making it all fit, got nice results too.
Had to try phase spent ages making everything real neat and tidy was able to push my kit a bit more, but when i upgraded last time round i got a chip with a cold bug and ran out of cash so went back to water for a while. Recently bought myself a conroe just waiting till the end of the month so i can buy some more bits and it will be reborn.
I did grease the socket and the back of the motherboard that was covered by the phase head back plate with some dialectic grease that was pretty easy and i never had any condensation problems. Theres loads of really good information out there on phase change with a bit of reading up it wasn't half as scary as i thought it would be. Got some good advice from Phil Stanbridge and Marci to name a few, helped me get it all sorted out the first time and cant wait to dig it back out and start playing again.
If your doing it for the fun of modding and tinkering then i highly recommend phase change and water cooling but if your not really into that sort of thing and just want to get the most out of your chip you can do that on air or with water.
Some pics of my old setup
Had to try phase spent ages making everything real neat and tidy was able to push my kit a bit more, but when i upgraded last time round i got a chip with a cold bug and ran out of cash so went back to water for a while. Recently bought myself a conroe just waiting till the end of the month so i can buy some more bits and it will be reborn.
I did grease the socket and the back of the motherboard that was covered by the phase head back plate with some dialectic grease that was pretty easy and i never had any condensation problems. Theres loads of really good information out there on phase change with a bit of reading up it wasn't half as scary as i thought it would be. Got some good advice from Phil Stanbridge and Marci to name a few, helped me get it all sorted out the first time and cant wait to dig it back out and start playing again.
If your doing it for the fun of modding and tinkering then i highly recommend phase change and water cooling but if your not really into that sort of thing and just want to get the most out of your chip you can do that on air or with water.
Some pics of my old setup
sTill if you want the max over clokc on a 24/7 rig, then phase is the way to go. If you really want the max overclock then LN2 is the way to go. Would be a bit hard to keep a LN2 system running 24/7 though.
