Cooling tips, suggestions and help

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kapo

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Hi! I was wondering, what is the best way to cool a system for a computer. I'm going to build and I have roughly $1,750 to spend on parts and $250 for cooling. What would be my best bet and what are some tips/ tricks to cooling it. I'm not sure about TEC or Liquid cooling. Is it worth it? Any help will be appreciated.. Thanks
 
I would suggest liquid cooling only because thats what i have and i have not once had a heating problem. Although they are a little pricey they are a good thing to have in the long run.
 
bettagetyonikes said:
I would suggest liquid cooling only because thats what i have and i have not once had a heating problem. Although they are a little pricey they are a good thing to have in the long run.
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how so?


I'm running an XP-120 and my CPU temp hits about 100F at 3.4GHz....


on 1.86GHz, it's about 85F
 
bettagetyonikes said:
my comp maxes out at about 53F with liquid cooling and what i mean by it helps in the long run is that it wont fry your stuff
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but who has more work to do to maintain their PC? not me, I dust it out once a month and I'm good.

and what's your processor?


and where do you have your radiator set? unless you are using phase change instead of water cooling, I believe that the highest temperature in your computer's room would be 53F, but since you say that that's under some load, you room must be like.... 30F!
 
Yeah, 10 minutes every two weeks to clean it up, no big deal to me....

Thermalright Ultra Extreme, my C2D E6850 runs at 23*C (stock idle)....
 
Mm-hm. Unless your seriously overclocking, phase and water cooling is very unnecessary. I nice aftermarket HS/f will do you good, like short RAM air said.
 
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