Water cooling?

[MoFunk]

So I got home yesterday to find my house was very hot. My CPU was at 60c and the case was at 40c. This has me worried since it is not even super hot here yet. Question in this. If I go to a water cooling set up, is that going to help me out even though the room temp is so much. I am sure it will do a little better than air cooling, but is it really going to be worth the price? Thanks for any input.

 

[BD231]

I'm interested in this as well, air cooling at decent noise volumes just dosen't cut it with an Athy XP at 2000mhz or above, and the heat created is simply horrible. Spaceheater type deal.

 

[poMONKey]

watercooling with a peltier to cool the cpu is what you want... i dont think your room temps ( w0w... 40°c is too hot for any case!!! ) would lend itself to good watercooling...

before you go this route... hows your airflow? cant have enough ( ear plugs /:Q\ 🙂 ) fans!!!

heres the best place, imho, to find out info on this kind of crazy extreme cooling stuff... overclockers.com forums

i have a little better, but still too hot, temps and will be going this route... or maybe i'll just get some AC for the office 😉

 

[Shimmishim]

i have a water setup...

and... it's been good to me...

theoretically, your water temps will never go below your room temp... so if your room temp is like 25C's then water should never ever get colder than that... but due to other factors, your water will never be that cold(unless you have a perfect heat exchanging media)...

you can expect your temps to drop of course... there's no guarantee by how much...

it did help me improve my o/c from 2.4 ghz to 2.5 ghz with 1.95 volts with my old dlt3c but even at this speed, the higher temps couldn't justify it for me...