Anyone ever have disaster with water cooling?

[jspeicher]

I might be purchasing a system soon that is setup with water-cooler. I have never worked with them before? I they pretty stable and maintenance-free after installation?

Thanks,

 

[jspeicher]

no one?

 

[Aarnon]

Well, I personally haven't had water cooling, but I have a friend who does. He ordered his computer last year and put it together himself (He's pretty computer adept). The water cooling died within a month. It was the pump that died. It seems to me that they are pretty high upkeep and sort of touchy. While it did run, however, the computer was insanely cool (temp wise), and worked great overclocked. He may have just got bum stuff, but he's given up on reinstalling all of it.

 

[lenjack]

Never a problem....Of course, I don't use one. When you figure in the costs and maintanence, It would be cheaper and safer to buy a higher speed cpu and overclock it.

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: lenjack
Never a problem....Of course, I don't use one. When you figure in the costs and maintanence, It would be cheaper and safer to buy a higher speed cpu and overclock it.

Ditto. I've never had first-hand experience with water-cooling, but after researching a bit, it seems it requires much maintenance, especially when it comes to air bubbles in the system and keeping the water clean.

 

[0roo0roo]

probably depends a lot on the parts you choose. aquarium pumps seem pretty reliable, else fishies would die all the time.

 

[oldfart]

This guy did!!

 

[overclock]

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[Elcs]

Originally posted by: oldfart
This guy did!!

[rant]ARGH!!!!!. STOP IT. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE[/rant]

That guy was so serious and that was so funny. My sides are still hurting after i read it the 1st time.

If you dont research Watercooling well enough, you turn out like that guy (or at least thats what I have learnt from reading around).

Ive also looked at it and its too expensive for me at the minute. Ill give it a few more years

 

[isaacmacdonald]

Originally posted by: Elcs

Originally posted by: oldfart
This guy did!!

[rant]ARGH!!!!!. STOP IT. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE[/rant]

That guy was so serious and that was so funny. My sides are still hurting after i read it the 1st time.

If you dont research Watercooling well enough, you turn out like that guy (or at least thats what I have learnt from reading around).

Ive also looked at it and its too expensive for me at the minute. Ill give it a few more years

I just laughed so hard my eyes almost fell out. that was hillarious

 

[0roo0roo]

u could try those crazy mineral oil solutions? u submerge everything hehe don't have to worry about pipes leaking, just the aquarium!

 

[Vonkhan]

i really didnt get it .... till i figured out that he actually put water ... like not in pipes, but WATER WATER inside the case ... cuz i couldn't comprehend that anyone could be so ... and then i spent the next 4 minutes on the floor, laughing my rear off much to the amusement of the rest of my accounting 613 cost control class. the prof wasnt too happy and every1 thinks i'm a loony ... thnx a bunch

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I don't get whats so funny about it, I realize putting water in the case is stupid, but so what?

 

[oldfart]

What is funny is he had people believing he actually did it.

 

[SleepyGreggy]

I thought it was hilarious. I can actually see a redneck doof attempt something like this, especially with his WIFE (or is it his sister) onlooking.

 

[McCarthy]

For the past few years around this time as the temps start rising outside and the temps in my itty bitty computer room skyrocket I've investigated water cooling. Really haven't seen that many disaster stories.

Most of the ones I have seen have been along the lines of:
Hose collapsed and computer started locking up a lot because CPU got hot
*Lesson: run your hoses carefully and don't do sharp angles
Someone else turned on my computer, but didn't turn on the pump!
*Lesson: If your pump doesn't come on with the computer automatically (wire in a relay) leave clear instructions for others.
The clamp broke and my waterblock fell off
*Lesson: Same as with aircooled heatsinks, try to get ones using all 3 lugs on the CPU socket, or better, bolt on. Avoid single lug attachments with either, especially with heavier sinks and waterblocks.

Have seen several pump failure stories, either because the pump died or like example 2, it didn't get turned on. Even then usually the outcome wasn't terminal, though some surely were.

All in all I'd say it's riskier, but not that high risk. Have the computer setup to shutdown if the CPU temp rises past X degrees - something we all should be doing (at least on the the Athlon side) with air or water cooling. I mean really, either way you're trusting your CPU and possibly your house to a $50 pump or a $3 fan.

--Mc

 

[MikeMike]

are you perhaps getting a koolance case, with everything setup?

that is what i have, and they dont have much upkeep, although i have to clean mine, and put better distilled wwater in it,, the old distilled got all dirty

USE AQUAFINA distilled water, as it is supposed to be the cleanest distilled water out there.

 

[everman]

I'd like to do water cooling some day, but I don't like having so many more possible points of failure that can be a catastrophic failure. I just read on slashdot there's new research in a kind of heat pipe but about 6x more effective than today's conventional air cooling. (closed circuit design)

 

[barryng]