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Should I do water cooling with this setup?

Fullmetal Chocobo

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This is my machine. I replaced the stock CPU HSFs with newer ones, but it didn't really have much of an effect on cooling. I'm tired of my office being so warm from the computer, so I'm considering doing water cooling, along with replacing the CRT with a LCD (or maybe just using both, but the LCD as primary).

Anyway, I have plenty of space available in the case. And I'm going to be doing windows in the side panel, so I could easily mount some resevoirs where I was planning on putting more case fans...

Hell, I don't know. What do ya'll think?
Tas.
 
Office = computer room in my house... And it does, very noticeably... I usually lower the AC one or two degrees if I'm going to be leaving the computer on.
Tas.
 
i do but just because i got a crappy chip wont go above 2 ghz at all if i do it locks up but i did a DIY watercooling setup so it is silent i mean you cant hear the pump or anything and it didnt cost $200+ dollars either. just get some old window airconditioner some plastic tubing and a fountin pump and your set.
 
The heat will still be in your office. Water cooling just moves the heat from the cpu to another location, most often out the back of the case. You will in fact have more heat to deal with, because the pumps used in water cooling produce heat, sometimes a lot of it.
 
Check out HardOCP

Kyle Bennet, the founder is all about water cooling. He doesn't use it for OC'ing, but for silence. He has tons of articles on various kits.
 
Originally posted by: Greenman
The heat will still be in your office. Water cooling just moves the heat from the cpu to another location, most often out the back of the case. You will in fact have more heat to deal with, because the pumps used in water cooling produce heat, sometimes a lot of it.
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Yup, all any form of cooling does is transfer the heat energy away from the component, which will still heat up the case and room. The main advantage I see with water cooling is the noise level and e-penis factor. Watercooling won't yeild a much better OC than a decent air solution anyways.
 
Water cooling won't make the room much cooler, even in the best case scenario, and might actually make the room warmer. Your chips put out some certain amount of heat and any cooling setup will just be a heat pump, as well as adding a few watts itself. Water coolers are better heat pumps than air setups; but they both just move heat into the air in your office. Now, if watercooling lets you get away with lower powered fans you might end up with energy savings(assuming the power needs of the pump don't elimnate them). Your only hope is dumping the heat out the window, in which case water cooling with a suitably located radiator would be much more efficient than air cooling + AC on high.
 
Okay. Thanks for the input. I was looking for an alternative to putting in a window unit AC, but it seems that is what I'm going to have to do.
Tas.
 
Originally posted by: Mrvile
I doubt it's your computer making your office warm.
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What! Between my CRT and tower I can leave the friggin' window open in sub-zero weather and my room will be warm. This damn thing is a space heater.
 
Personally I don't think watercooling really makes much sense in any context...the performance difference over air cooling isn't big enough to justify the cost of the setup (obviously this doesn't apply (as much) if you have a DIY setup). The next step up if air cooling isn't doing it for you should be phase-change cooling.
 
Well, I'm not looking for an incredible cooling solution or anything. My temps are fine where they are. I'm trying to find a quieter way of doing stuff. I have 10 case fans, and 7 fans on the CPU, PSU, and video... If I switch to water cooling, I can install two fans over the video card / CPU area, and kill 8 of the fans, and use quieter fans for the exhaust fans. My only concerns would be money and usefullness though.
Tas.
 
True, if you want to keep things quiet water cooling does make sense over air cooling, especially if you need to use 10 fans in order to keep things cool on air...at that point you've probably spend about as much on fans as an entry-level watercooling system would cost.
 
Originally posted by: Some1ne
True, if you want to keep things quiet water cooling does make sense over air cooling, especially if you need to use 10 fans in order to keep things cool on air...at that point you've probably spend about as much on fans as an entry-level watercooling system would cost.
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True. It'll cost me $156 to get all the fans I need (see my post in C&C if you want to check them out). But I have to get two CPU blocks (although I won't bother with chipset and video cooling), so the price goes up even more. I'm going to keep doing some research on it though... I just would rather not start on start on a branch of cooling, and then decide to do another one later... That is my biggest concern actually.
Tas.
 
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