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My jump to watercooling!

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evanscnce

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Well I have a Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8ghz running at 2.91. It has a 800mhz fsb and 1mb l2.

For a long time I used the Zalman CPNS7000 with artic silver 5 to cool my cpu. This wasn't working because my room got so hot that it still under load would reach 71c peak. Idling was between 55c and 65c. I knew this was too hot.

Last night I got my kit (after 2 months of trying to meet the guy to get it -_-) and installed it. I set it all up and ghettofied it to work in my case. Well the results are in!

In my hot room it idles at 39c with the radiator fan on low (no change on high while idling) and under load (surfnig web, using aim, copying DVD) it hits a peak of 48c with the fan on low, 46 on high. Its a heck of an improvement in my book. I could probably go cooler with the rad. put somewhere that gets better airflow, but I will save that for my core 2 setup!

BTW, I used the ThermalTake Bigwater SE kit.

I am thinking of upgrading the pump and cpu block.

Any suggestions/comments?
 
those starter kits work, but custom setups will give you much better results. You would basically replace everything minus maybe the resovioir. A good water cooling setup will be around ambient at idle and will raise roughly 10C on load. Also now that you are on watercooling you should be able to overclock your P4 ALOT more.

Recommendations for replacement parts:
dtek fuzion or apogee GT for a cpu waterblock
go here for a pump http://www.petrastechshop.com/pumps.html
also when you get the new parts you will step up to bigger size tubing which allows alot more water flow and will also increase cooling .
also the radiator on that bigwater kit doesnt seem that efficient, something like a black ice or swiftech or even a dtek pro core would probally do alot better at transferring the heat
 
Originally posted by: Raider1284
those starter kits work, but custom setups will give you much better results. You would basically replace everything minus maybe the resovioir. A good water cooling setup will be around ambient at idle and will raise roughly 10C on load. Also now that you are on watercooling you should be able to overclock your P4 ALOT more.

Recommendations for replacement parts:
dtek fuzion or apogee GT for a cpu waterblock
go here for a pump http://www.petrastechshop.com/pumps.html
also when you get the new parts you will step up to bigger size tubing which allows alot more water flow and will also increase cooling .
also the radiator on that bigwater kit doesnt seem that efficient, something like a black ice or swiftech or even a dtek pro core would probally do alot better at transferring the heat
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NO DO NOT REPLACE ANYTHING IN THAT KIT

The current custom watercooling parts WERE NOT DESIGNED TO MEET WITH, excuse my pun, thermalcrap's waterproducts.

In worse case scenario, you will accelerate galavanic corrosion if you continue.

My advice, is enjoy your kit as it is for now. Learn the mechanics of how it works, and how the principles of watercooling is done.

Then UPGRADE the entire kit. I cant tell people enough, that thermaltake, koolance, and Zalman are considered toys to the watercooling world.
 
Then UPGRADE the entire kit. I cant tell people enough, that thermaltake, koolance, and Zalman are considered toys to the watercooling world.
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Aint that the truth....true words of wisdom
 
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