Water cooling

[Evo7]

Anyone use watercooling? Can you post some pics, because I am thinking of gettint one. Also is it hard to set up? Thanks for your reply.

 

[tweakmm]

you might want to go online and search for water cooling. When i get back from my friends house, I will linkify for you.

 

[Def]

Check out the forums at these sights:

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Overclockers.com

OCs.com also has a really good articles section on watercooling.



Now to really answer your question, I haven't actually had direct experience with watercooling, but I have been researching for quite some time. I should have my rig WC'd within the next week.

I don't think it's necessarily *that difficult* to setup, but it is more involved that just slapping your heatsink on. Expect to spend at least 30-45 minutes bleeding air and making sure everything is OK. Then let it run a day or two outside the case to check some more.

The maintence is probably about that of aircooling. About as often as you'd clean dust from your heatsink, you should check the system for bio-growth or corrosion. Water shouldn't need changing except once or twice a year.

Hope that helps.

 

[mrCide]

Some of my watercooling pictures here. It's not hard, just make sure you don't mix aluminum with copper, test the system for leaks before you install it, and test it for proper water flow or whatever.

 

Read my article on the subject.
It's an old article but it still applies to your situation.