air vs water, im definitely going water. but just curious.

[bleucharm28]

So i have the i7 920 batch C0/C1. My CPU temperature ranges from 38-42C on air according to RealTemp 3.00 and is clocked at 3.2G

What temperature should i be expecting when i switch to watercooling. I will not be cooling the GPU since i have not decided to go with ATi or Nvidia. Leaning towards ATi i think.

My loop will go on top mofset > side mofset > CPU > chipset (N/S) down reservoir > pump > radiator >... The reason i chose to cool the mofset is for looks, i really don't think is necessary, but anyways; if i were to add 1 or 2 video cards (Xfire/SLi). I would imagine that temperature for my CPU wouldn't be as cool as if it were to only cool mofsets/CPU and chipset n/s.

Maybe with 1 card is ok, but going XFire/SLi should have seperate reservior/pump/radiator-2.120's?

The Radiator is Quad-480 (fesser) with D5 pump.

The reason I decided to go watercooling is because i've always want to go WC, but I changed my mind a few time. Is a GO this time, if i don't do it now i will never know what is like.

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[qazwsxokmijn]

There was someone in a forum I can't now remember. He has 2x 5970s and an i7, and all three are watercooled with only one Swiftech MCR320.

 

[Juddog]

Just curious why you wouldn't go directly to the CPU first, then to the mosfets?

 

[bleucharm28]

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[aigomorla]

What temperature should i be expecting when i switch to watercooling. I will not be cooling the GPU since i have not decided to go with ATi or Nvidia. Leaning towards ATi i think.

Maybe with 1 card is ok, but going XFire/SLi should have seperate reservior/pump/radiator-2.120's?

The Radiator is Quad-480 (fesser) with D5 pump.

Your millage will vary.
Without knowing what your ambients are, nor without knowing how hot your cpu gets, i cant really tell ya.

However a C0/C1 gets kinda hot. With watercooling, 4.0 is probably doable while still having good temps.
Water works better as there is more heat.

As for the second question, id say try it out first, and if your not happy with it, then upgrade another radiator. This is once again another hard question to answer, because what is "OK" to you?

Just curious why you wouldn't go directly to the CPU first, then to the mosfets?

It honestly wont matter.
The mosfets will put out such little heat, that if he has a good pump, the variance in water temp will be less then 1C.

Flow is uniform thoughout the loop. The only time where id say it matters is if you had a big heat source in front of the cpu, like a fermi.

for Looks 😀

go for it!