Watercooling Guide, and additional questions

Chronictank

Chronictank

Chronictank

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I guess its time to bite the bullet (against my better judgement, it may seem a archaeic attitude but the idea of water going around inside a electrical applicance never really appealed to me), and go water cooling.

I found this guide
http://www.overclock.net/overclock.php?file=articles/water-cooling-guide.htm
and
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=71321

But im still missing bits of info after a couple of searches on the forums;
1) What is the difference in running costs (i.e electricity etc) in comparison to air
2) What are the traps i should look out for?
3) What happens if the water leaks? does everything go boom despite using distilled water?
I was looking at http://www.integrity-pc.com/fluidxp.cfm which claims to not short the system in the event of a leak
4) How big does the resevoir need to be?

and last but not least, is it really worth swapping to water cooling over air? Is the cost/gain worth it as watercooling rigs are by no means cheap

A sticky for us watercooling noobs would be great :)
 
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Chronictank said:
ok all the other questions are answered in the other thread, apart from :)

1) What is the difference in running costs (i.e electricity etc) in comparison to air
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Electricity bill? Lol, that is slight to no difference. The only thing would be the pump, but that's like 10-30w normally...
 
Chronictank said:
i had a friend who made his own phase change kit and his electric bills went through the roof so it made me a little paranoid ><

thanks for the quick replies
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Phase and water can not be compared! But speaking of electricity bills, my dad is complaining about them being high, and I guess my highly oced pc is the one to blame! :D So the electricity bills have gone up at our house after watercooling, but that's because it allowed me to increase voltage and oc further!
 
dont want to hyjack or anything but what tools are needed to add watercooling or is it more or less just slip t in and screw together?
 
young lad said:
dont want to hyjack or anything but what tools are needed to add watercooling or is it more or less just slip t in and screw together?
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A knife to cut the tubing (may want to ask an adult to do this)
A screwdriver to tighten the hoseclamps
the odd screwdriver etc.

Nothing much out of the ordinary tbh :
 
young lad said:
Easy to do?
How long should it take?
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Depends on how you intend to install and your cutting skills. :)
My first watercooled PC took me a couple of days to put together and test out the loop with no PC components in. That included cutting a hole for the rad in the bottom of the case.
 
indeed it completely depends on how you are planning to install it.

The rad is the main component to get mounted, if internally you need to think and plan carefully, and of course you will need a jigsaw :)

and you will need a drill if you plan to mount anything where there isnt already mountings for it :)
 
gr1mey said:
indeed it completely depends on how you are planning to install it.

The rad is the main component to get mounted, if internally you need to think and plan carefully, and of course you will need a jigsaw :)

and you will need a drill if you plan to mount anything where there isnt already mountings for it :)
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Or a dremel. I cut a hole for my PA160 rad with a dremel... and a few cutting disks. :)
 
i was looking at the slim swiftech watercooler and was wondering how good this is and do i need to get de-minieralised water from somewhere or does it come with? anything else i will need to buy?
 
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