VapoChill

[pirred908]

Better than water? Better than air for that matter? Same as a Peltier/Phase change system? Worth getting?

 

[Varun]

I think Tom's did some stuff with Vapochill a while back. Seems a bit expensive to me, but I don't overclock much if it costs more to overclock than it does to buy a new system.

 

[Mik3y]

yes, vapochill is any computer owner's dream, especially if you overclock. the cooler the cpu runs, the better. its only worth getting if you overclock, since it costs about $900. water is only better than air if your room temp is warm.

 

[steimm]

I have a Vapochill PE (the older one) and I am really satisfied with it - earlier I had water on CPU and VGA and before that I just had ordinary air-cooling.

This is my opinions about all these three kind of cooling systems:

Vapochill:
+ Really good cooling
+ Possible to overclock a lot more than anything else
+ Stable as a rock if you are careful when you mount everything
+ Good instructions and a good forum over at http://www.vapochill.com
+ You dont have to worry a bit if there is warm weather outside, it is still going to be really cold!

- Quite noisy
- Hard to mount everything
- The dielectric grease can be hard to remove if you dont use any chemical if you plan to sell the stuff
- Expensive
- You have to have other cooling on N/B and VGA - but get water for that

Water:
+ The best stuff is when you put some pieces together and buy quality components, make sure you get good blocks.
+ Quiet

- Risky with the water
- Takes some good amount of space in the case
- Quite expensive

Make sure you have a fancontroller so you can get better cooling if needed (higher sound though)

Air:
+ Easiest mounting of these three alt's
+ "Cheap" (at least if you're not getting top of the line stuff)

- Not so quiet (at least with the cheaper stuff, I think you know what I mean)
- The fan on the VGA is very often quite bad and starts to get noisy after a while

Just my small thought.

btw, Im running the Vapo on the CPU and Water on the VGA and the N/B. With all that I am really satisfied and I don't have to worry about much...

/steimm

 

[pirred908]

Wow, I had no idea it was that much money. Forget it. Thank you for all your help.

 

[Shimmishim]

lol... hehehe..

yeah, they're butt expensive but if you go check out the fs/ft forum over at xtreme you can find some good deals on them