Looking to water cool

[Kryhs]

My PC runs hot. Too hot. 70c hot. I figured that water cooling was the best way to go. (Sure more fans would work but why do that when you can water cool?) Unfortunately I know NOTHING about water cooling so I need help. I'd like to water cool the CPU of course, and my video card, and if it's not too terribly expensive my RAM. My specs are:

Intel P4 2.6ghz w/ 800 fsb
Abit IC7-G mb
ATI brand Radeon 9800xt (the heatsink on the back of this thing has been scalding hot before)

Any help, recommendations, and links to product is greatly appreciated.

 

[Gnoad]

First off, 70c is abnormally hot, so I would first reseat your HS and make sure you applied your AS5 correctly. As for watercooling, I really like www.dangerden.com. All you need is a pump, a radiator, tubing, waterblock, gpu waterblock, and a reservoir if you want one. I personally wouldnt use a resevoir, just use a t-line. And search the forums a little bit, as I'm sure this has been answered 5000 times.

 

[Kryhs]

I built this PC in October 2003 and the only one other time it got higher than 70c is when I had it over clocked. I put it back at its stock speed and it's been fine since. All of a sudden it's running hot. I don't know what's up.

Edit: and sorry for asking a super often asked question.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

exxos watercool it.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Almost sounds like the thermal compound you used is wearing away. This wont give you good contact raising the temps.

 

[iamtrout]

Think through this rationally. I'm a big watercooling fanboy, but I think watercooling has only two places of use:
1. Quieter/Sleeker looking system.
2. Lower temps while overclocking.

Watercooling just to lower your current high temps at stock speeds doesn't make sense because if your temps are already so high at stock (aka the speed it was meant to be run at), then it means that there's something wrong with your current hardware. It appears like you said your temps dramatically increased randomly. That would mean there's a hardware problem somewhere. Maybe you should be looking at RMAing your CPU instead of looking to watercool a defectively hot CPU.

Of course I'm jumping the gun a little bit. Reapply compound, reseat, get latest drivers for mobo, ask questions in Cases and Cooling, etc.

 

[Kryhs]

Took my CPU out and it appears that my thermal compund wore off. What causes that?

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

I guess just being under the constant heat from the processor baked it off. Reapply some arctic silver and your temps will drop down again.