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Is water cooling system effective?

Which cooling systems would you choose?

  • Power CPU FAN with heat pipes

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Hello guys i am wondering weather should i upgrade my CPU fan to cooler masters v10 and get some x caliber fans or upgrade to water cooling systems for booting usage:confused: >.< Please aid me in my dilemma
 
If you're running stock clocks and voltage, seems the money could be spent better elsewhere.
 
All depends on your location, ambient temps in the room running the PC in, and the setting you choose. For me summer time I run a little warmer, but I have a AC on. Winter time it runs fine. This is with a Sycthe Air cooler. Water cooling is kinda extreme unless its needed, or purchased with specific hardware that actually makes it as functional as it should be. I am running at 4.8 ghz on a gen1 i7 @ ~ 45c @ 50% load. Works for me
 
Gentoo said:
If you're running stock clocks and voltage, seems the money could be spent better elsewhere.
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I've been running water for 5+ years now and this is the correct way to view this question.
 
it's mostly about getting rid of the noise of fans when running PC overnight.

looking forward to phase cooling in the future... bout 5 years
 
Yes, it's like after cooking a steak, the pan is boiling, right? Put it in cold water for like two seconds (not even kidding), take it out, it's room temp, right?

Same with computer cooling, I would have it, but I'm scared as shit it'd leak and destroy all my hardware...
 
AutomaticCoding said:
Yes, it's like after cooking a steak, the pan is boiling, right? Put it in cold water for like two seconds (not even kidding), take it out, it's room temp, right?

Same with computer cooling, I would have it, but I'm scared as shit it'd leak and destroy all my hardware...
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i think this too, but i broke down and bought 3x h100's... as they have really, really good reputation
 
Kickazz006 said:
i think this too, but i broke down and bought 3x h100's... as they have really, really good reputation
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And the fact that water can't harm your computer if everything is in a socket or the the extra wires from your PSU are sautered from the PSU unit directly with NO wire showing
 
Meh, i've had a valve come off my water pump in the middle of the night, soak everything.. Hairdryer everything dry and fired it right back up.
 
yeah i'll have to use extreme filtered water... as water doesn't conduct electricity; it's the minerals that do
 
Kickazz006 said:
yeah i'll have to use extreme filtered water... as water doesn't conduct electricity; it's the minerals that do
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What most of my buds do is just distill their own water in a humungous jar, seems to work well. Keeps their core at like 30c when gaming hard
 
narras said:
fish tank full of oil.
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haha i've seen this too. Not sure I'd want to mess with that.

As far as leaks are concerned I really wouldn't worry about it. I carry my rig around all the time and I've never come close to leaking. Its a weird looking setup too.

As you can see from the photo, I need to fill up the tank!
 

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I can run my Phenom II Hexacore OC'ed at 3.8 GHz pretty silent with a IFX-14 tower cooler. No point using water cooling IMO. Good (expensive) fans can be very low-noise and pumps are not silent as well.
 
Holzroller said:
I can run my Phenom II Hexacore OC'ed at 3.8 GHz pretty silent with a IFX-14 tower cooler. No point using water cooling IMO. Good (expensive) fans can be very low-noise and pumps are not silent as well.
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If you want to get crazy the oil submerged PCs do very well, although the oil tends to retain heat a lot longer :/
You can also submerge a pump to move the oil through a radiator outside of the tank which will cut down on the noise drastically.
After that just keep on eye out for density lines (may have water in the tank, but it will be at the bottom) and for oil wicking up the lines.
 
Kickazz006 said:
i think this too, but i broke down and bought 3x h100's... as they have really, really good reputation
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You use 3 in one computer? O.o

I've actually saw people mod the h80's onto GPUs and stuff before, quite stupid really considering you can buy a full watercooling loop including the GPU for the same price as 3 h80's

Diktat said:
H100's aren't 'real' water cooling loops =P
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How so? They have all the same shit as a watercooling loop, the only thing you can't do is put your own coolant in.
 
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