Water cooling, should i?

Vegeta

Vegeta

Vegeta

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Hi, I was thinking of having my system water cooler because it seems like the best option for these reasons.

1, Your system runs cooler and quieter
2, You get extra performance from overclocks
3, They look nice :D

But I havent a clue what i'm doing as i've never looked into water cooling, i'am preety pc able however I did build my pc all together myself, did take the cooler off my gpu to apply as5 etc and I have overclocked them.

I was wondering is it easy to do and what risk are involed, I was looking on the ocuk site and these water coolers look amazing and so easy to do.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_copy_of_Others.html

As you can see the Zalman caught my eye, water coolers cool the gpu/northbridge and cpu right? thats all thats needed?
And what If I upgrade my pc, do Zalman bring out different water block for different gpu's/cpu's etc even say 5 years down the line if I keep this water cooler by then?
And my mate told me theres a chance of leakage and you have to change the water, surely leakage can be avoided if I do it right? how often do you change the water? any other things I should be worried about?
 
If you want to add me to msn I can talk to you about the reserator as much as you like :D

They don't leak very often at all if the kits good and put together well, you have to change the water of course, but its a yearly task and its easier than dusting a heatsink properly.

The cpu and GPU blocks do not have to be made by zalman, others will work nicely.

The zalman cools just a bit better than top end air on my dual core, but its more of a silent solution that a performance one, its not silent as in PC silent, it truely is silent.
 
sorry to hijack ;) :D but is water cooling seen as a sound upgrade rather than a peformance upgrade? :confused: i was conisidering it but only because i thought it would allow me to overclock better..
 
gfx cards benefit a lot more from watercooling.

Esp the new high end ones hitting 90 degrees on loud with noisy fans.

watercooling will cut that to 40 and be silent ish :)
 
The extra ocing potential isnt what it used to be with socket a i dont think, as you cant go as wild with the vcore, i got rid of my watercooling and just dropped my clock by 100mhz and 0.2v.

As a visual thing though, id say go for it!

Leakage isnt something you should be worried about provided you fit it properly and with the right additives your water wont need consantly changing
 
Do not buy the reserator, it's like a tt bigwater, an insult to watercooling.

If you want a kit at least get a siftech apex ultra and either a maze 4 or mcw55/60 gpu block.

Specs would help also. :)
 
lay-z-boy said:
Do not buy the reserator, it's like a tt bigwater, an insult to watercooling.

If you want a kit at least get a siftech apex ultra and either a maze 4 or mcw55/60 gpu block.

Specs would help also. :)
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That means nothing to me, if it runs the cpu/gpu cool when overclocked - and is completly silent and looks great how can it be bad?

ATM i'm only on a barton 2500@3200, leadtek 6800gt, abit nf7s v2, but if i were to buy one I would want it to look nice and last years and years, i assume you just buy different gpu/cpu/chipset blocks when new cpu's/gpu's/mobo's come out?
 
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Vegeta said:
That means nothing to me, if it runs the cpu/gpu cool when overclocked - and is completly silent and looks great how can it be bad? <snip>
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The point is, it doesn't run it cool, it runs it silent. The temperatures will be no better than any half decent air cooling but the silence is what people buy it for, especially if you stick a graphics card in the loop.

You have two VERY hot running components - a Barton and a 6800GT, without placing a fan near the reserator, I cannot see any sort of overclock in there.
 
people have been known to adapt them so ducting and a fan can be placed on them and temps drop dramatically. ment to be pretty easy to do, as u just stick tube round them have it raised of the ground so air can go up it and stick a fan on top to draw air up the tube.
 
:/ I would like something both silent and runs very cool :/, any recommendations and prices? the cheaper the better obviously.
 
Vegeta said:
:/ I would like something both silent and runs very cool :/, any recommendations and prices? the cheaper the better obviously.
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Just buy the Reserator! ;)
It does a very good job of cooling and is silent. You cannot fail to cool when you have sooooo much water and such a massive radiator.
Just remember to keep a bit a air flowing for the bits which are not watercooled. :eek:
For 'extreme' o/clocking I cool mine with a tube of card wrapped around the tower and a 'quiet' 120 fan sucking air out the top. It works REALLY well!

:cool: AND IT EVEN LOOKS COOL :cool:
 
Vegeta said:
A piece of card lol, not my idea of beauty :D
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OK! so I can get my son to paint the card with flowers of sumfin. :mad:

Nice one :D , but I promise you the reserator looks and cools real nice without any Heath-Robinson stuff AND Zalman are about to release a NICE LOOKING fan attachment. Check my sig' and you can see that it copes well with an overclocked machine! It cools my gfx, cpu and northbridge :D
 
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