What sort of cooling?

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leetkyle

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Okay, so my temperatures are the following:

System: ~41C - Antec P180
CPU: ~35C - Intel C2D E6400 2.1GHz
Video: ~50C - ATI Radeon X1900XT Stock
HD: ~37C - WD 10K-RPM 74GB

I want to take my temperatures down to around;

System: ~20C
CPU: ~20C
Video: ~25C
HD: ~27C

Should I go watercooling? I have an Antec P180 so I'd have to get a Zalman Reserator1 V2 or something. Or are there good, silent fans that do the job for me?

Thanks.
 
How warm is your room? 20C is 68F, and with water cooling you cant get the temps below room temp.

Also, generally water cooling is just for the CPU and video card, most of the time the chipset and hard drive are still air cooled.
 
yea, you would need a $300-500 water cooling system applied professionally (you know, lapped to like 5000grit) and then it would need maintenance constantly... and even then there's no guarantee because of the cpu's integrated heatspreader. i suggest you worry more about what you do with it, rahter than what temperature its running at. if they were higher id say go for it, you may want to on the video card, but the cpu can handle like 60C and the video can handle like 90C easily...
 
Ku-sama said:
He could take off the IHS and lap the CPU core
Click to expand...

yea, that would be even more dangerous than lapping the thing. the cpu core is crushed so easily its not even funny...
thats why they put the thing on, to allow for larger heatsinks to be used more safely.
i mean you have to actually screw the big typhoon down to your motherboard... lol
 
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