Help with buying water cooling

[Schadenfroh]

im thinking of just giving in and buying Koolance EXOS

Questions about which CPU water block

which of these three would you buy?

KOOLANCE CPU-300-H06
KOOLANCE CPU-300-V10
KOOLANCE CPU-300-V13

also, all three require This Adapter

but i cant seem to find it on SVC, anyway to make it work without it? or does SVC have it and i cant find it?

thanks

this is probably going on a socket 939 Athlon64 3000 with a gigabyte nforce3 ultra

another thing, where can i buy some non conductant fluid i can rest easily knowning that my house will not burn down in my sleep due to water spillage?

 

[wkwong]

you would probably need to buy the adapter from somwhere else or maybe straight from koolance if nobody carries it.

hard to find these small adapter parts as they are not generally in great demand. good luck.

 

[HardWarrior]

That a gorgeous block.

 

[iamtrout]

Warning: Just because a waterblock is really really shiny on the bottom does not mean that it is flat! Perfect flatness takes complete precedence over shininess.

 

[HardWarrior]

Be nice trout, try not to lecture.

 

[iamtrout]

Sorry. I don't like koolance that much

I mean, who puts a plastic lid on top of their waterblock? It just looks... cheap. It's not even lucite.

Blah. Buy whatever you want.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Sorry. I don't like koolance that much

I mean, who puts a plastic lid on top of their waterblock? It just looks... cheap. It's not even lucite.

May I ask what issues you have with Koolance?

As you know my TDX has a lucite top, and it's a beautiful and functional piece of engineering that in no way looks cheap. This being true, I guess I'm not the person to ask.

 

[iamtrout]

Eh, it's just me. I don't like Koolance because basically it's not DIY, or anything resembling DIY. Kits from DangerDen and Swiftech are good because their individual parts cater to the DIY/performance crowd. Koolance is not. Need to upgrade a Koolance waterblock? Tough luck. The tubing is 1/4" and no one uses that. At least if you had a kit with 1/2" or 3/8" ID you'd be able to upgrade parts of if (ie. swap out DD for Swiftech, add a DD GPU block to a largely D-tek setup, etc.). With Koolance, the upgrade options are very limited.

I don't know how well Koolance holds up to thermal load from overclocking either.

 

[gotensan01]

Schadenfroh, the non-conductive fluid is called Fluid XP+. Keep in mind it is expensive. Also, in small amounts it will safely not conduct electricity. However I'm pretty sure that if you have a big leak (or a small leak overnight), a puddle would also be dangerous. If you take the time to make sure everything is done right, there is almost no way it will leak IMHO.

Hardwarrior, do you have the silver TDX block...I really want that one .

btw I agree with iamtrout. 1/4' ID tubing sounds sooooo bad to me.

 

[HardWarrior]

The STDX??? Maybe as an anniversary present or something major, but to just buy it myself, nope! It's pretty and all but the performance improvement just isn't enough to justify the expense. Now if some smarty-pants figured out a way to produce industrial diamonds in crystals large enough to use in water-blocks and coupled them with upgradeable mounting hardware I'd pony-up in a second. As for the enternal argument between DIY and pre-selected kits, keep in mind that there are myriad reasons for slapping water to a computer. All are valid as long as the person paying sees them as such. As for me, I can honestly say that I couldn't care less what size ID tubing is used, what parts are employed or how a person acquires those parts. If it's water, or forced-air for that matter, it's all good.

 

[iamtrout]

Bah, if I had a choice to either pony up some money to

a. completely deck out my car with lights, vinyls, tinting, rims, new paintjob, shiny things etc.,

or

b. Plop in a turbocharger, upgrade suspension, and strengthen the frame in the case of accidents, but still have my ride look like sh!t,

I would pick b. But that's me. I value function over form. Get the function, and then worry about the form. But in the end it's your money. You're free to spend it on pretty things.

 

[Thermalrock]

the strengthening of the frame when you get a more powerful engine is to keep the the car's body stable at higher speeds not only for accidents. i like pretty things. but i like fast cars more i guess. fast pretty car would be best tho.

 

[iamtrout]

That's true. I absolutely love rally cars. Frickin' slide off a trail at 100mph, hurtle through the crowd, bounce around for a good long while, pinball between a few trees, land on its wheels, and keep on going.

 

[shamgar03]

I'm curious. How can a custom job beat the koolance exos considering that the exos has its radiators outside the case where things tend to be much cooler than inside. It seems to me that the only way a person can top that is by having their radiators out of the case. Any comments?

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: shamgar03
I'm curious. How can a custom job beat the koolance exos considering that the exos has its radiators outside the case where things tend to be much cooler than inside. It seems to me that the only way a person can top that is by having their radiators out of the case. Any comments?

There's nothing inherently wrong with an in-case solution. What makes the difference between Koolance and a hand picked kit is the bang-for-your-buck factor. After you pork out for the case and all the things that don't come with it, you could have had a top-notch overclocking water-cooler with all the trimmings, instead of mediocre solution. Bear in mind, I'm not saying an person is slime for going with Koolance.

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: shamgar03
I'm curious. How can a custom job beat the koolance exos considering that the exos has its radiators outside the case where things tend to be much cooler than inside. It seems to me that the only way a person can top that is by having their radiators out of the case. Any comments?

A custom job is simply that. Custom. You can have your radiator outside, inside, duct taped to a wall, out in the snow, inside your fridge. Heck, if you don't give a sh!t about looks you don't even need a case! I've seen people with all their parts duct taped to their basement wall

 

[shamgar03]

Alright, thanks for the info guys. When I get the money I will definately have to do a custom water cooling system.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: shamgar03
Alright, thanks for the info guys. When I get the money I will definately have to do a custom water cooling system.

Good luck dude.