Watercooling - Is it worth it?

Another question, how do you go about fixing the water cooler into a case, will it have to be modded or does it depend on the case.

The cases i'm looking at are:

Akasa Eclipse 62
Lian-Li PC7+
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream

Bedget for case upto about £75ish
 
The X1900XT is faaar superior to the 7900GT. The XT and XT-X only have a 25mhz core difference and 100mhz memory difference. There is very little between the two. In fact, both at stock, the X1800XT is slighty faster than the 7900GT. The GTX and the XT varieties perform roughly the same, so if you want an nV, get the GTX.
 
Interesting thread, Ive been looking at watercooling for some time now but always thought it involved active maintainance of your system and frequent problems.

I have a question, how many system fans do you need when water cooling? And what is this chiller I read some of you talk about?
 
xiphrex said:
Interesting thread, Ive been looking at watercooling for some time now but always thought it involved active maintainance of your system and frequent problems.

I have a question, how many system fans do you need when water cooling? And what is this chiller I read some of you talk about?
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fan wise i recommend just enough to cover your raditor so eith 1-2-3 by size of rad... and you case fans to keep good air flow... a chilla is aphace change machine or vapour chill these do take a lot of maintenace you have to insulate everything around what is being cooled and grease it with dialectic awesome temps but more work that water.
 
xiphrex said:
Interesting thread, Ive been looking at watercooling for some time now but always thought it involved active maintainance of your system and frequent problems.

I have a question, how many system fans do you need when water cooling? And what is this chiller I read some of you talk about?
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Not at all. One of my rigs hasn't been opened for months.

As for fans, my latest one has a 120mm front fan, a 120mm on the radiator stuck on the back, a silent 80mm directing some air over the chipset and power regulators with a 120mm in the PSU. The front 120mm is the original exhaust from the case and is completely inaudible, the rear 120mm is at 7v and the PSU fan spins so slowly it might as well not bother. So, althoug there are three 120mm fans and an 80mm, they're all spinning so slowly you can't hear them. The pump is also virtually silent.
 
I never thought I would never have the balls to use water, but after reading this thread I bought the swiftech apex kit and set it up yesterday. It took a while to set up and had me pulling my hair out at times due to my cat trying to 'help' , but now ive got my opty 165 running stable at 2.9 Ghz at 43 deg. :D

The only thing is the liquid is very frothy, i added the green coolant at a ratio of 1/10 for a litre of distilled water as instructed but maybe it was too much ?
 
Devious said:
I never thought I would never have the balls to use water, but after reading this thread I bought the swiftech apex kit and set it up yesterday. It took a while to set up and had me pulling my hair out at times due to my cat trying to 'help' , but now ive got my opty 165 running stable at 2.9 Ghz at 43 deg. :D

The only thing is the liquid is very frothy, i added the green coolant at a ratio of 1/10 for a litre of distilled water as instructed but maybe it was too much ?
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it will be frothy for first hour or 2 just leave it running at it will settle and clear out..
 
I usually leave the cap off where you fill it,leave it running for a few hours & let all the air out :D then put the cap back on. Does the trick for me.

Give the pump & rad a shake to get all the air out ;)

Rob
 
I've been reading through these watercooling threads the last few days and fancy having a go myself. Im going to take the advice from the sticky and add just cool the CPU first which is an opty 144 @2.65, but later I would also like to cool my 6800GS. I read the sticky but the recommended blocks and pumps are slightly outdated arent they seeing as I couldnt find them anywhere, is the Swiftech Apogee extreme a newer version of the Swiftech Storm?
I am trying to keep to quite a low budget for the moment around £70 -£80 if possible and would like to get most parts second hand, what should I be looking for? Any recommendations on pump, block , radiator or heatercore? Is a reservoir really necessary or can you use a fill port (someone explain how this works without water coming out the top). Is a heatercore better than a radiator, are they easy to fit barbs onto, are they easy to get at a scrapyard?
Should I be looking for 1/2" or 3/8" are these outer diameter or inner diameter?
Does it matter if I cant fit everything in my case?

Is it worth starting a new thread for this?

Cheers
 
Mikey1280 said:
I've been reading through these watercooling threads the last few days and fancy having a go myself. Im going to take the advice from the sticky and add just cool the CPU first which is an opty 144 @2.65, but later I would also like to cool my 6800GS. I read the sticky but the recommended blocks and pumps are slightly outdated arent they seeing as I couldnt find them anywhere, is the Swiftech Apogee extreme a newer version of the Swiftech Storm?
I am trying to keep to quite a low budget for the moment around £70 -£80 if possible and would like to get most parts second hand, what should I be looking for? Any recommendations on pump, block , radiator or heatercore? Is a reservoir really necessary or can you use a fill port (someone explain how this works without water coming out the top). Is a heatercore better than a radiator, are they easy to fit barbs onto, are they easy to get at a scrapyard?
Should I be looking for 1/2" or 3/8" are these outer diameter or inner diameter?
Does it matter if I cant fit everything in my case?

Is it worth starting a new thread for this?

Cheers
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Not really u could prob do a search on these forums to find out about tubing sizes. 1/2 inner is the stuff u want, for me its not about 3/8, i used it for a bit, its looks so puni inside the case. People will say that its easier to bend etc without kinking but ive got dangerden clearflex 1/2 and its just as easy to use as my old 3/8 tubing.

If u have a low budget then id suggest saving for a bit, u can pick up a mean old rad at the scrapyard which will probly perform well but then uve gotto ind barbs to fit to it or someother method. 'The Heatercore' is avaliable from most watercooling websites and its real cheap, my house mate got the dual one for 40 quid with barbs.

I dont see why u **** have to drain ** system to change a gfx card, just take the block off, thoses stupid dangeden and alike geforce coolers that are designed to cool ** gfx ram are far to over priced, just get a maze 4 or simular gpu block and get some ram sinks. Im using a fill port but really id prefer to use it with a res but i didnt have one at the time, bayres's looks so sweet.

Check out mine and my housemates system might answer some questions.

CLICK HERE
 
Ive just done a watercooling setup and tbh it was really easy. I was bricking myself bout water in my comp and especally because of the spec i have. It was really easy tho even takeing the gpu blocks of was.

I went for water over good air cooling for the silence and because will cool a lot better as my cpu got to 60oC at loads and both my gpu got to 80oC at load. Now my cpu dont go over 50oC and my gpu 45oC the setup i got was

Rad: Thermochill Pa120.2
Res: Thermotube 10"
Pump: DD5
CPU: Swifttech Storm
GPU: Maze 4 LP sli Kit
Tubing: Tygon 3603
Additives: MCT-5
 
Monstermunch said:
How easy is the Swiftech to fit to something like an Eclipse 62?
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Watercooling prity easy to fit in any case basicaly if it dont fit in side put it outside it

Monstermunch said:
Is there any benefit from running it on the mobo chipset as well?
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No not really just dumps heat into the loop
 
Thanks for that but 1 more question, how do you get your signature images to look so clear?

The only way I could get mine down to size was to reduce it to 0 quality jpeg, now it just looks pants!
 
kinggost said:
Watercooling prity easy to fit in any case basicaly if it dont fit in side put it outside it



No not really just dumps heat into the loop
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If uve got a good enough rad to deal with it without effecting cpu temps by too much im all for watercooling the NB cause it keeps the case temp down so much, leaving ** ram cooler etc. But like me if ** motherboard doesnt have a nb fan just a passive heat sink then dont bother. On the other hand if uve got the dual heatercore like meh house mate it will pretty much cool anything u throw at it with awsome results.

Those swiftech kits come with lamo 3/8 dont they?
 
I've made a shortlist of parts so far, can you advise me which to get/avoid etc.
· PUMP –eheim 1048/1250, aquastream 50z,
· RADIATOR – XSPC R120D, dual heatercore, Black Ice pro
· BLOCK- swiftech storm, LRWW, Danger Den TDX, swiftech mcw6002
· TUBING, tygon
· RESERVOIR/FILLPORT – what do I need?
 
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