Water Cooling

Firestar_3x · 11 Jul 2008 at 14:10

Much better with a full cover block

I don't think watercooling is that bad, most things can be moved to a new system so its not like buying a GFX card for £400 that you have to change every 18 months.

Just added it up and my two loops have cost around £270, not bad imho

Breezy · 11 Jul 2008 at 14:27

i agree with you, most of the water components im using in my new build is recycled from my last 1.

1kiwi · 11 Jul 2008 at 16:08

yep - watercooling parts have to one of the few things that can survive several new builds.

oceaness · 11 Jul 2008 at 17:52

shadowscotland said:
this is the daddy for having quiet moveing HHD.

Bungee cradles are best antivibration silencers (should cost no more that £3 max and some of your time)

lol £50 vs £1.50 for some elastic and most cases have space for a big fan in front of the drives so quiet cooling shouldnt be an issue

That drive bay thing does look quite "cool", excuse the pun, though.

The elastic HDD trick is by the far the most wonderful thing ever bodged into a PC

shadowscotland · 11 Jul 2008 at 18:03

£1.50 gets you quiet, £50 gets you silent and cool without the need of fan 'noise'

I went with the £1.50 option myself and water cooled the raptor

oceaness · 11 Jul 2008 at 18:29

shadowscotland said:
£1.50 gets you quiet, £50 gets you silent and cool without the need of fan 'noise'

I went with the £1.50 option myself and water cooled the raptor

Lol yeah but let's face it most of us are cheapskates

I went with the elastic and a case with a 36cm side fan, plenty of air over everything, it doesnt make any noise and it only cost £38. Only noise I can hear from my PC is the very faint clicking of the HDD now. And my CPU fan when I start folding as it's not overclocked and still on the stock cooler (Sacrilege I know). It's not overclocked because they'll be a Q9450 winging it's way to me very shortly

Here's a pic of the case:

virdee2 · 11 Jul 2008 at 21:50

my rigs water cooled and i have only cooled the cpu but i can see the potential for great cooling.
it looks great, sounds great and gives you something else to work on if you like these projects like i do :-)

im doing it piece by piece but it still looks complete at every stage and still cools amazingly well. A TRUE would probably be almost e=as effective but you'd still have loud fans and just as much noise on your gpu. Logically its not worth over £100 more than the TRUE but water cooling isnt meant to be logical and you could argue that buying a quad sli or crossfire setup isnt logical either since many games cant use them all yet.
its all about the kudos my friend...the kudos :-)

1kiwi · 11 Jul 2008 at 22:10

virdee2 said:
Logically its not worth over £100 more than the TRUE but water cooling isnt meant to be logical and you could argue that buying a quad sli or crossfire setup isnt logical either since many games cant use them all yet.
its all about the kudos my friend...the kudos

As i said before, watercooling is no longer logical - Any noob can add another stick of ram or graphics card to his/her rig whilst decent watercooling takes time and patience. Damm, i can't wait to get my new rig up and running.

virdee2 · 13 Jul 2008 at 21:30

decent cooling doesnt even require that much time anymore, i had mine up and running in one afternoon and went out in the evening :-)

had no problems but it should have taken me longer because i should have tested the loop fully...oh well :-)

cooljimy84 · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:17

Monkey Puzzle said:
O rly?

Erm ok, i might have dropped the ball there.....LOL

EdGey · 14 Jul 2008 at 04:55

Firestar_3x said:
My Raptors sure due, the rest of my rig is silent.

same... they are just too noisy it isnt worth the extra speed.

will stick to 7200rpm next time.

1kiwi · 14 Jul 2008 at 08:32

the new one is supposed to be quieter no?

Firestar_3x · 14 Jul 2008 at 08:35

I think so, not decided what i'm going for next, thinking about some sort of solid state in a few months, new GFX first however.

1kiwi · 14 Jul 2008 at 08:44

Firestar_3x said:
I think so, not decided what i'm going for next, thinking about some sort of solid state in a few months, new GFX first however.

It certainly the 'big' question. Arguably will provide the biggest notable difference in computer performance that we have seen for quite some time.

Did you see that benchmark where some guy RAIDed like 9 of 8-9 of them lol. He was getting sustained 800mb/sec or something and hitting all sorts of controller limits!

*cough* off topic.

Deaco · 16 Jul 2008 at 15:13

Cheers peeps certainly feel like I know the in's and out's of WCing a bit more.. although still uncertain it's the best course of action for me - think the money spent on speccing a WCing could be better spent on components, plus I havn't really found many build logs for Akasa Eclipses with the Rads mounted inside the case (found a couple with them bolted on the back/top etc), and I'm guessing it's a better Air case then water..soo time to save up for a Temjin and perhaps have something in the future

1kiwi · 16 Jul 2008 at 15:24

Deaco said:
Cheers peeps certainly feel like I know the in's and out's of WCing a bit more.. although still uncertain it's the best course of action for me - think the money spent on speccing a WCing could be better spent on components, plus I havn't really found many build logs for Akasa Eclipses with the Rads mounted inside the case (found a couple with them bolted on the back/top etc), and I'm guessing it's a better Air case then water..soo time to save up for a Temjin and perhaps have something in the future

Prob the right move. Save up for a decent case and get solid components.

virdee2 · 16 Jul 2008 at 16:33

Deaco said:
Cheers peeps certainly feel like I know the in's and out's of WCing a bit more.. although still uncertain it's the best course of action for me - think the money spent on speccing a WCing could be better spent on components, plus I havn't really found many build logs for Akasa Eclipses with the Rads mounted inside the case (found a couple with them bolted on the back/top etc), and I'm guessing it's a better Air case then water..soo time to save up for a Temjin and perhaps have something in the future