Water cooling Or Not

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think of going water cooling.
But before i go spend £200+ , interested in what kinda temps i would roughly get better than my h-50?

the now just wanna start of with Cpu under water. with my cpu at 4ghz , 2-3 hours under prime max's around 71-72c on all cores.
idle 38-40c
under normal load, game playing ect max's around 62-65c
chip will do 4.2-3 stable, but temps are way into 85c+

so am i going to get a massive drop over these with water ?
read about the ups & downs of w/c, but always wanted to give it ago, got the upgrade bug again after getting most new parts recently.
 
will on the set up i had rx360 d5 pump and yateloons on a i7do @ 4g's and a gtx480 llop my temps where at least 20c lower in prime95

sold my kit so i cany check the exact temps now just been looking for some screen shots but not got any anymore

think cpu was 57c and gpu 45c and that was before it got cold
 
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Give me a few weeks, and I can probably tell you :D.
Got a 360 rad here, pump, res, tubing and block. I have an H50 on an i7 920 which hits 80 degrees on folding loads.

Never triedwatercooling, so am going nice and slow! Plus, Im currently cleaning out the rad. Next is pressure/leak testing.
 
Hi, i have a 360Rad fans push/pull cooling > CPU:4.2GHz hotest core 68'c > GPU:GTX 470 core OC'd:850/17000/2000 peaks at 50'c, with a room temp of about 23'c gaming BC2.

Best thing l've done, the silence and not having to down clock your PC in the summer is another big bonus. Save up the extra and do your GPU at the same, it cost me just under £300. If you can build a PC you can build a custom loop, read up on water cooling plenty of info on the net, read this sticky -

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17803239

I used compression fitttings rather than Barbs and clamps, easier to use and look a lot better. When finished l had one slight leak, so just tighten'd up the fitting just a touch more sorted. As l write this my idle temps are 31:33:32:35 +/- 1'c > room temp 22'c.
 
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thanks for advise ppl :) think will take the plunge, sure the cpu block is universal so can test on old mobo i have. as of g card can leave that now, it's the soc 47o version, 3 fans on it, so it running cool enough the now :)
 
took the plunge & ordered, hoping for teus-wed :)
got the vipers & radiator For £45, so cant complain thre :)

Heatkiller Rev 3 Copper CPU Block
1366 Backplate
Laing DDC 18w
thermochill pa120.3
Reservoir Top
3 vipers, barbs, tubing ect
bought some Feser, i know can just go halfords ect & get the water needed, but thought would go this way 1st time :)

enough power ect to cool the GPu if chose to next ?
 
frozennova said:
If you still want dyed water I'd suggest mayhems dye and his biocide. Both can be found via google.
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i bought some of his earlier stuff and it went off colour so he sent me some for free. gave me around 8 samples was well chuffed only used 1 tho. uv blue. the newer stuff is fine. the first batch was around 4 years ago
 
OLDPHART said:
Using Thermochill ECO6 Clear Fluid, no prob's at all filled the loop just over 4 months ago, no probs at all.
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got my delivery today, Thermochill ECO6 was sent instead, would you all recomend this over dist water.

or just go with water & koil. cant get the koil to 4th jan, if go water without koil till jan 4th, will this cause any harm ?

probs be back soon with more ?? :)
 
Rab said:
got my delivery today, Thermochill ECO6 was sent instead, would you all recomend this over dist water.

or just go with water & koil. cant get the koil to 4th jan, if go water without koil till jan 4th, will this cause any harm ?

probs be back soon with more ?? :)
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Your loop should be fine without kill coil. Some members have run loops for a month or so without coils and without problems. In terms of eco6 and distilled water...

The eco6 looks very nice, no doubt about that. The distilled water will perform the same, if not better, than eco6. I'm not sure whether there's a problem with the dye separating in the eco6. If there isn't, then eco6 might be the thing to use :)
 
cheers m8, was thinking if went with the eco6, will cost more down the line than using water. just washing out the rad the now & getting everything in palce before start putting it together.

thermochill pa120.3 rad, when found out this was replaced with newer model, went for the XSPC RX360 instead after reading some good reviews on it, lol triple rads are big :)
 
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