Liquid Cooling

It is safe if you plan out your stuff correctly, attach everything properly, spend time leak testing the kit and also use non conductive fluid
 
Liquid cooling gives better results than Air, but this comes at a price.

The lowest end of water cooling that comes in kits will only cool the cpu a tiny bit better if not the same than high end air cooling.

However if you spend a decent amount of money on a set up, you will get noticable better temperatures under water.

With water cooling you have a much smaller 'delta' in your idle and load temps. This means the gap in temperature increase is much smaller than on air.

I dont know why liquid cooling cools better than air, but many people would argue that it does.

Air cooling is suitable for almost any computer set up, water cooling is realy just for heavy overclockers, people with money and poeple who want it.
 
water cooling is better then air cooling simply because it has the mass to whisk the heat from the cpu
 
lovely? said:
water cooling is better then air cooling simply because it has the mass to whisk the heat from the cpu
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the mass?

water cooling works better b/c presumabley cold water is continually flowing over the cpu(with a thin piece of metal inbetween of course), picking up the cpu's heat, then moving out so the more water can come and cool the cpu, leaving, essentially bring the idle and load temps as close to room temp as possible. what makes this change is the heatsink used and the radiator/pump/reservoir used.
 
i have just purchased a liquid cooling setup from thermaltake (big water 745)

its had some good reveiws, but i have also purchased a zalman motherboard block aswell.

i belive they out perform the air setup and they wont be as loud as air due to the fact that the fans are larger than that of a normal cpu fan so it does not have to spin as fast as the smaller

i have had to order a new case-antec nine hundred just to fit this kit in its well massive

its cost me nearly £230 up too now and im gonna have tp get new psu so it is expensive and i wouldnt fit it to a lowend computer its just not worth it!

but i am going to upgrade to quad core soon so im buying to upgrade
 
taylormsj said:
Out of interest, why did you buy an antec 900 for water cooling, its tiny, and why did you need a new PSU?
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well the antec takes the same size fans as whats on my kit and there is only one fan/radiator that needs to be mounted inside the other one is free standing...

there isnt that much really to cram in will just be awkward...

i got that case because it looks smart and for the above reason..

the antec 900 has the bay for the psu in bottom of case and my psu will not have long enough connectors to reach the motherboard and drives!!

anyway its just a cheap on ive got so needs changing really

al post some pics when its done
 
my old case spec LxHxD (17.5x16.4x8 inches)

4 x 80mm fans

antec 900 LxHxD (19.4x18.4x8.1 inches)

4 x 120mm fans
1 x 200mm fan
 
Good point, its bigger than your old case, is still wouldnt choose it for water cooling though, but it does cool like no other :D
 
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