water or air on conroe

snarloas1982 · 13 Jan 2007 at 21:39

right i have a 6700 conroe, idle is 36 and load 55 at 3gzh. i have heard of mad o/c with these chips but mine seems to warm. do you think water will help me? im using a tuniq tower at 1440 rpm

Gashman · 13 Jan 2007 at 23:46

water is good if your overclocking by a large amount and cooling several componants at once, plus noise levels are good, otherwise i heard titan amanda or whatever you call it is good choice

w3bbo · 14 Jan 2007 at 00:15

Water will help load temps if you buy the right kit. Buy a cheap kit and it wont be much better if any than the high end air cooler you already have.

Dunks · 14 Jan 2007 at 01:39

snarloas1982 said:
right i have a 6700 conroe, idle is 36 and load 55 at 3gzh. i have heard of mad o/c with these chips but mine seems to warm. do you think water will help me? im using a tuniq tower at 1440 rpm

Water will help bring those temps down, but like w3bbo only if you but decent kit.

snarloas1982 · 14 Jan 2007 at 13:06

i picked up a dual rad astek kit with the swiftech pump for 50 quid. also comes with a hard disk cooler and chipset cooler but i dont think i will use the chipset cooler because my abit board has all them heat pipes. i know the astket stuff isnt the best but do you think it will be better

Gashman · 14 Jan 2007 at 13:53

read lots of reviews online, there antartica CPU block seems pretty good, between most CPU waterblocks theres not a lot in it, couple degrees across the range, with the storm, apogee and the likes at the high end and the zalman, asetek and the likes a bit down the range, a few degrees won't kill your ability to overclock, cause with water you should never get temperatures high enough to be worrying

i personally use the following:

Stealth GT 240 Rad. W/ two 120mm Aerocool Turbine low RPM fans
Alphacool Cape 20 Res.
Alphacool AP1510 Centrifugal Pump (expected it to be loud but was suprised)
Swiftech Apogee CPU Block
Two Danger Den Maze5 GPU Blocks
Polarflo TT GPU Block cooling chipset
Alphacool ASUS mosfet block

thats the order the loop is in as well, use tygon 3603 1/2" tubing, seems to work nicely

snarloas1982 · 14 Jan 2007 at 23:10

do i need to use a hard disk cooler? seen so many systems over the years without any need for them

w3bbo · 15 Jan 2007 at 08:09

Hard disk coolers are more of a gimmick m8, if you have adequate case cooling then that should be enough for even the biggest of arrays.