Water Cooling

bflat450 · 07-07-2006, 04:14 PM

Well no one really responds to any threads on this part of the forum or starts any new ones so I decided to start a new thread on water cooling. Water cooling is a really awesome way to cool your PC even though its really expensive. Its very convenient and keeps your CPU and Graphics very cool. Also with water cooling you could overclock your CPU to a higher speed without worrying about frying it.

Here's a link of someone installing a water cooling system in his PC. There are 7 steps and theres a video on about 4 out of the 7 steps that he does. Pretty cool check it out...

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11319_7...1.html?tag=nav

ChrisDVD · 07-07-2006, 04:30 PM

do you have any questions? or you simply wanted to show this website?

red onion · 07-07-2006, 04:32 PM

Very expensive...and if a connections leaks, there goes your PC, data and all!

Sorry, but I'll stick with good 'ol air

ChrisDVD · 07-07-2006, 04:34 PM

yeah....i would also be scared with condention....don't want that too happen!

bflat450 · 07-07-2006, 04:43 PM

Yeah one leak and thats it, its pretty risky, too expensive for me anyway. Like red onion said "I'll stick with good 'ol air."

[-0MEGA-] · 07-07-2006, 05:01 PM

I do have a question, since i never dealt with water cooling I really dont know. If you have two video cards in SLI, are you able to have the water run through both waterblocks on both cards, and though the cpu waterblock, or will the water be too hot after it goes through the SLI to properly cool the cpu?

bflat450 · 07-07-2006, 05:49 PM

Well the water wont be that hot at all because the water flow is quite quick so the one section of water is not able to pick up heat a lot at a time so once it goes to the graphics card(s) it's still fairly cool. You would be able to do this as long as you bough an extra water block compatible with your graphics card. Most water cooling kits will only give you 2 water blocks (1 for the CPU and one for the GPU) so you will have to buy one more. Other than that it should be fine.

murdock22 · 07-07-2006, 06:37 PM

wouldn't a cheaper why to cool your system to buy a $30 box fan and take off the side of your case and put the fan on max?

bflat450 · 07-07-2006, 09:13 PM

I was actually thinking of that yesterday.

07-07-2006, 04:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
bflat450 Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 157	Water Cooling Well no one really responds to any threads on this part of the forum or starts any new ones so I decided to start a new thread on water cooling. Water cooling is a really awesome way to cool your PC even though its really expensive. Its very convenient and keeps your CPU and Graphics very cool. Also with water cooling you could overclock your CPU to a higher speed without worrying about frying it. Here's a link of someone installing a water cooling system in his PC. There are 7 steps and theres a video on about 4 out of the 7 steps that he does. Pretty cool check it out... http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11319_7...1.html?tag=nav

07-07-2006, 04:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
ChrisDVD Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Canada Age: 18 Posts: 1,042	do you have any questions? or you simply wanted to show this website? __________________ HP Pavillion a815n, 160 GB Hard Drive, 512 MB Ram, 16x DVD±RW DL Burner, Power suply- 300W Intel Pentium 4, 3.06 Ghz Power suply- 300W Mother board: ASUS PTGD1-LA Windows XP home Editions, Service Pack 2 Video Card: BFG GeForce FX 5500 oc 256 MB PCI HP Pavillion f1503 monitor HP Series 3 in 1 Printer Speakers: Logitech x-530 suround sound system 5.1

07-07-2006, 04:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
red onion Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Quebéc, Canada Age: 39 Posts: 544	Very expensive...and if a connections leaks, there goes your PC, data and all! Sorry, but I'll stick with good 'ol air __________________ Main Rig: \| 2nd Rig: Windows XP/Vista \| Ubuntu 8.04 ASUS P5QL-E \| Gigabyte K8 Triton Intel E8400 \| Sempron 3300+ XFX 7600GT PCIe \| Nvidia Gforce4 AGP 500 GB WD SATA \| 160 GB WD SATA 160 GB WD SATA \| 40 GB Hitachi 2 GB PC6400 \| 512 MB PC2100 19" Samsung LCD \| 17" Compaq 7500

07-07-2006, 04:34 PM	#4 (permalink)
ChrisDVD Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Canada Age: 18 Posts: 1,042	yeah....i would also be scared with condention....don't want that too happen! __________________ HP Pavillion a815n, 160 GB Hard Drive, 512 MB Ram, 16x DVD±RW DL Burner, Power suply- 300W Intel Pentium 4, 3.06 Ghz Power suply- 300W Mother board: ASUS PTGD1-LA Windows XP home Editions, Service Pack 2 Video Card: BFG GeForce FX 5500 oc 256 MB PCI HP Pavillion f1503 monitor HP Series 3 in 1 Printer Speakers: Logitech x-530 suround sound system 5.1

07-07-2006, 05:01 PM	#6 (permalink)
[-0MEGA-] Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 20 Posts: 27,082	I do have a question, since i never dealt with water cooling I really dont know. If you have two video cards in SLI, are you able to have the water run through both waterblocks on both cards, and though the cpu waterblock, or will the water be too hot after it goes through the SLI to properly cool the cpu? __________________ Desktop // Laptop Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM45 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // 512MB GDDR3 9800M GTS 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 4GB DDR3 800 750GB SATAII w/32MB // 200GB SATAII 7200RPM Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 21391 // 9179

07-07-2006, 04:43 PM	#5 (permalink)
bflat450 Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 157	Yeah one leak and thats it, its pretty risky, too expensive for me anyway. Like red onion said "I'll stick with good 'ol air."

07-07-2006, 05:49 PM	#7 (permalink)
bflat450 Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 157	Well the water wont be that hot at all because the water flow is quite quick so the one section of water is not able to pick up heat a lot at a time so once it goes to the graphics card(s) it's still fairly cool. You would be able to do this as long as you bough an extra water block compatible with your graphics card. Most water cooling kits will only give you 2 water blocks (1 for the CPU and one for the GPU) so you will have to buy one more. Other than that it should be fine.

07-07-2006, 06:37 PM	#8 (permalink)
murdock22 Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 160	wouldn't a cheaper why to cool your system to buy a $30 box fan and take off the side of your case and put the fan on max? __________________ CPU - Pentium D 930 3Ghz Motherboard- Asus P5N32-SLI DELUXE RAM - DDR2 2GB OCZ Video card - BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC Hard drives - 250GB SATA WD Power - Thermaltake 680W purepower NEC 19" LCD monitor Full Tower Case - Thermaltake Armor with 25mm side fan and ten other fans

07-07-2006, 09:13 PM	#9 (permalink)
bflat450 Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 157	I was actually thinking of that yesterday.

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