luiquid cooling

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reddevil6

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how cool does your hardware idle at an what temp at load.
also can u post a pic of your luiquid cooled systum.
 
Not to sure about your rig being a AM2 one, but on mine I have a 939 4600+(stock 2.2ghz, OC peek 3.0ghz, running stable at 2.8ghz).

2.2ghz stock with stock voltage (temps were around 29-31idle, 30-33c).

2.8ghz was great, (temps were around 32-35idle, 36-38c).

3.0ghz was okish but got the odd "hick up" every now and again (temps were around 34-36idle, 37-39c).

I have my chipset and CPU water cooled, I got my rig to about 2.6 with AC64 cooler but even that couldn't hold the temps under 45-50c, so thats the reason for the water cooling, plus it looks cool and gave me some experience with water cooling. To be honest if and when I build my new rig I will not be water cooling it again.

I would only suggest water cooling if you really want to push your OC'in to the next level. Can't see any point in doing it otherwise.
 
yeai was just thinking in the future cos computers are obsaleat after a couple of years now
i was just thinking for when i do need to do a OC.
you where saying all stock temps around 29-33 thats what my cpu idles at with stock cooler.
what where your idel temps with your heatsink an fan if u had one
 
The idle temps will only be as cool as the room temp, if you got a beast fan on you may knock it down a few degrees. But its not like when you have water cooling its gonna be at 5c, unless you can get the liquid that cool... but you would need more and a radiator and a few fans to do that.

The water cooling really shows its pros when the CPU is under a lot of stress...
 
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I'm idling at around 25C overclocked, and load is around 38-40C.
 
^ nice, your lucky enough to have a 65nm CPU thus cooler idle, also you have only got one block in your water cooling config and probably a bigger rad if I remember correctly too, this will also help with better cooling.
 
ghost said:
^ nice, your lucky enough to have a 65nm CPU thus cooler idle, also you have only got one block in your water cooling config and probably a bigger rad if I remember correctly too, this will also help with better cooling.
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That is correct :)

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It's not the nicest setup ever, but it cools the CPU great, even when I tested it at 1.62v, whereas my aftermarket air cooler had temps of 73C+ load when I had the voltage at 1.58v.
 
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