what sort of temps with watercooling?

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what sort of temps would i be looking at with a q6600 at 3.3GHz with <170 pounds worth of watercooling?

not really spec'd up on watercooling so idk if that price sounds funny.

im using a tuniq now and geting 38-40C idle and 60-65 load (depending on test)

for it to really be worth it id like 4.5GHz with the same if not lower temps atleast. - again, not sure if that sounds silly.:o

thoughts?
 
You'll be lucky if you get past 3.8ghz, let alone 4.5. Watercooling is not a magic spell that suddenly makes chips incredibly overclockable.

I shelled out £170 on custom watercooling bits and I get the same temps as I did with my Tuniq. Main reason I got it was cos it looks cool, and my word, yes it does.
 
Other factors include how good your board is at overclocking and possible memory as well :(
 
so, id be paying 170 quid for something that looks nice and a 0.5GHz increase if im lucky along with the risks of having water in my case.

i see lol.

ok thanks il stick with my tuniq:)
 
yup, but its nice and quiet :D

I sold all my watercooling too in favour of a silent running Tuniq Tower + small case.

Was a bit too bulky and impractical for someone not as enthusiastic as me.

Only thing i regret is the graphics card fan now spins up and gets noisy, i might have to get an Accelero.
 
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I got 30mhz more out of my FSB due to water.
Have cooled all the board though, so does make a difference, not as much as the OP wants though.
 
How does everyone think its quiet?
a pa120.3 with 3 fans on cs a tuniq tower with 1?

you go for overclock or silence not both
 
A pa120.3 is more than enough to cool a cpu and proberbly a graphics card with slow spinning silent fans (even a cheapo xspc triple rad can keep a cpu cool without needing loud fans). It could also be a little cooler than a decent air cooler such as the tuniqe (proberbly only 5 degrees at most).

So you can have both easily as long as you make the right decisions.
 
Yep a PA120.3 cools my board and chip, can even turn fans down to min, if I want to, about 5c difference between min and max fan speed.
 
It all depends on how you have your loop setup and where the rad is. My rad is in on a windowsill so i get extremely low temps, especially in the winter. If you have it in your case then it depends on the case layout and airflow. There are loads of variables and you could have two people with the same watercooling components and have completely different results.

One things for sure though. You will not hit 4.5Ghz.
 
take a look at the quad core database, the max primestable clock is 4.3ghz with a damm good chip on phase,

W3bbo had his at 4.1ghz on water although that was a super top end water setup and again one of the best clocking Q6600 known...

3.8 with high end air / water is certainly possible IF you have a 1/2 decent Q6600...
 
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