water cooling

[ShadowBlade]

when do you think it becomes necessary to use water cooling...for those of you who do use it, whats your setup?

 

[0roo0roo]

becomes necessary when u reach geekhood level 10

 

[CycloWizard]

I don't use watercooling (and I doubt I ever will ), but those who do typically say the main point is to decrease noise coming from their case.

 

[Miklebud]

I use watercooling to keep my case super quiet and the ability to overclock my CPU to very high levels.

 

[ddviper]

yup used for silent computing and super high o/c's with super low temps

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
becomes necessary when u reach geekhood level 10

Damn! Well, WC is never "necessary" as such. It's just another form of thermal management. Sure, it's better than air, but in my experience there are tradeoffs. If you're willing to struggle with those tradeoffs you'll be rewarded with a far more stable, easy to clean (and overclock) machine. Contrary to the prevailing tone of some of the replies here, there isn't one overwhelming reason to go with water. It's different things to different people, and every justification for using water that I've seen is valid.

Shadow, if you have any questions I'd be glad to try and help.

 

[voigts]

What Hardwarrior says it right on track. I have been chewing and reading on watercooling and dove in about 2 weeks ago with a Swiftech H20-220 kit. My main goal was to quiet my system down as well as lower overall temps. I am not a big overclocker. I am just tired of the the jet airplane sound. I also installed a video card water cooler block and also two hd water coolers. It took some time and reading to do, but the end result is a VERY quiet system that is very cool. My CPU temps went from 52c idle (with a serious fan cooled heatsink) to 35c idle with full load only about 43c. I read a lot of forum posts on many different forums to gain information. The posts at overclockers.com forums are very helpful. Watercooling to me is for someone who likes working "under the hood" and likes spending some time setting things up. It is not for everyone. But high end components create lots of heat and take lots of cooling of some sort to make run stable. Do some reading and see if it is for you.

 

[HardWarrior]

"No money?" I know what you mean! :laugh:

 

[voigts]

I figured it might as well be a part of my sig. Obviously, you know what I mean. However, I figure that tweaking a computer is still a lot cheaper than jet skis, boats, old chevy's, etc.

 

[HardWarrior]

Indeed it is!

 

[HeaterCore]

You don't watercool because you have to. You do it for the same reason some people rice out their Civics -- because you get a kick out of it. If you enjoy tinkering with your PC, are looking for a quiet setup with good cooling potential, and want to horrify your girlfriend, by all means give it a shot. About two months ago I put together my first watercooling setup, a DD TDX block with a Maze4 GPU block, and this comp is now nearly silent with healthy OCs -- 2500MHz on a Barton 2800, 475/380 on a 9800 Pro.

And yeah, my fiance took one look at the rig and shook her head....

-HC-

 

[Blain]

The future is now.
> "As Seen On TV" <

 

[HeaterCore]

Yeah, after reading about that at Slashdot about a year ago I figured at first that I'd just buy one of their aftermarket solutions, but as far as I can tell the company has folded or run into some serious R&D or funding problems. Look at the date on their last (and only) press release: October 2003.

Don't think about waiting on Cooligy. They're done.

-HC-

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: HeaterCore
Yeah, after reading about that at Slashdot about a year ago I figured at first that I'd just buy one of their aftermarket solutions, but as far as I can tell the company has folded or run into some serious R&D or funding problems. Look at the date on their last (and only) press release: October 2003.

Don't think about waiting on Cooligy. They're done.

-HC-

I didn't get that impression from the May 14, 2004 article, I linked from the SV/San Jose Business Journal.


3Dfx is gone, yet dual GPU cards are in the offing.

The technology doesn't die with a company.

 

[HeaterCore]

Hence, "don't wait on Cooligy," rather than "don't wait on microchannel cooling" -- although the latter is nearly as valid.

If you want to wait around on a technology that will probably come down the pipe at some undetermined point in the future, even though it's got no proponents and hasn't been heard from in well over six months (an eternity in the tech industry) be my guest. Hell, if the tech were commercially viable now you can bet your ass Intel would've licensed it to tame those Prescotts.

-HC-