D2D Water Cooling VS WaterBlock

gmayol

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I've been reading about direct to die cooling (sorry I don't remember the web page, they managed to overclock one Duron and a ThunderBird CPU) which got nice results (600 l/hour pump and 1/4 of inch of diameter for the piping) but I think they compared to systems with other configuration ... (worst pump and less diameter pipes ...)
I have access to a cutting plotter able to cut both aluminum and carefully Cuper (to mount a waterblock), but seems easier to cut plastic with the needed accuracy so it can be adjusted to the CPU (Barton XP 2500+) to get the D2D cooling, but is that risk worthy ?
Better pumps (1200 l/hour and more) are also available, so
wouldn't be easier to improve the results by increasing the pumps flow rate in place of gettin' the processor underwater ?

I've been tempted to get a new huge box to fashion made of a home freezer ... Wouldn't be that easier ? ;-) (it is just a joke, but I think someone has taken to real...)
 

LtBlue14

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watch out for direct die cooling - from what i know, the cpu cores fail after a few months because they're not 100% waterproof. besides that, i don't actually know if there is an improvement over using the best waterblocks. i don't imagine it's much of one, if there is, and imo it's not worth the risk of killing your processor in a few months

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Colt357TW

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before you D2D water down your CPU, please silicon insulate all exposed components on your CPU, spread a bead of silicon around CPU die (not on the CPU die, just all 4 sides will do) also a very good idea.