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Getting great temps with my D-14 that i lapped im so glad i whent sandybridge from x58 these boards and cpu`s are so much better :)

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The SB chips do run very cool and can achieve great overclocks on air. If you want near silent running though you simply cannot beat watercooling especially with the amount of heat/noise modern gpu's make.
 
custom colored waterloop will always look much better than some huge bulky slab of metal with fans strapped to it :D
 
If l had a SB, l would watercool it, look at the overclocks they are achieving magic + the volts they are using, no worries in the summer having to turn your overclock down, all that power with deadly silence as well, Brill. :cool:
 
Because watercooling used to be a lot quieter than air cooling which isn't the case anymore.
Makes me laugh when people think watercooling is quieter erm how can 2 or 3 x 120mm fans on a rad be quieter than say 1x140mm fan on a heatsink ? It's more about extreme overclocks and cooling performance these days.
 
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C64 said:
Because watercooling used to be a lot quieter than air cooling which isn't the case anymore.
Makes me laugh when people think watercooling is quieter erm how can 2 or 3 x 120mm fans on a rad be quieter than say 1x140mm fan on a heatsink ? It's more about extreme overclocks and cooling performance these days.
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Perhaps because they are spinning at a much lower speed?! Also the fact that a 140mm fan spinning at the same speed as a 120mm fan will make a considerable amount more noise.
 
C64 said:
Because watercooling used to be a lot quieter than air cooling which isn't the case anymore.
Makes me laugh when people think watercooling is quieter erm how can 2 or 3 x 120mm fans on a rad be quieter than say 1x140mm fan on a heatsink ? It's more about extreme overclocks and cooling performance these days.
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By watercooling you create a much larger surface area to cool with so you only need a fraction of the fan speed to do the same cooling. There is simply no way to have silent running with air coolers using smaller fans, heatsinks and maintain good overclocks all year round.
 
C64 said:
Because watercooling used to be a lot quieter than air cooling which isn't the case anymore.
Makes me laugh when people think watercooling is quieter erm how can 2 or 3 x 120mm fans on a rad be quieter than say 1x140mm fan on a heatsink ? It's more about extreme overclocks and cooling performance these days.
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Bolting a water block to a high end GPU equals silence. Its not complicated mate. ;)

JeffyB said:
By watercooling you create a much larger surface area to cool with so you only need a fraction of the fan speed to do the same cooling. There is simply no way to have silent running with air coolers using smaller fans, heatsinks and maintain good overclocks all year round.
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This too.
 
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C64 said:
Because watercooling used to be a lot quieter than air cooling which isn't the case anymore.
Makes me laugh when people think watercooling is quieter erm how can 2 or 3 x 120mm fans on a rad be quieter than say 1x140mm fan on a heatsink ? It's more about extreme overclocks and cooling performance these days.
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Errr wrong! I can cool my whole rig with 2 200mm fans@500rpm and 3 120mm@800rpm for every day use and for movie watching down to 400rpm and 600rpm. I don't know what rig you are running but if you cool it with fans that slow congratulations but if you have nearly any newish top end gfx card that alone will be noisier than my whole pc.

Anyway to answer the OP, three reasons generally.
1. Cooling performance: Overall provides better cooling than air and helps overclocks be higher, though less on newer cpus and helps gpu's keep cool if they are overclocked too.
2. Noise: Set up right you can have a very quiet PC, There is a couple of builds around here of people running passive loops or with only 1 or 2 slow fans.
3. It looks awesome! Very personal opinion ofcourse but it is one people sometimes use.

Usually people do it for a bit of a mixture of those 3, personally I did it for all 3.
 
C64 said:
Because watercooling used to be a lot quieter than air cooling which isn't the case anymore.
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I thought my case was silent FT01, H50 with x2-Apaches, then x2 Vipers. Then a H20 loop is deadly quiet, the only thing l hear now is mt DVD-RW working.
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Silence is silence is golden. WC loops take out all the gpu noise, and if you get a nice fat radiator, your fans will be spinning at totally inaudible rpms.

It really is wonderful. Sod your massive heatsinks and your 'quiet' fans :p.
 
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