Benefits of water cooling!

Watercooling was fine... just wasn't cutting the cooling I need, I don't trust peltiers cooling my components that much after it KILLED MY FX5900!

I can't believe you actually bought that, how much did it cost you? a good 300US at least? You could've saved so much money if you just paid a visit to a junkyard for a radiator, and went to Wal-Mart for a pump. You could make your own waterblocks, but I don't recommend it, so you buy the waterblocks, CPU/VGA, and HDD if you have Raptor or 15000rpm+ SCSI drives. I really don't recommend chipset blocks, since a Vantec Iceberq4 does the job really well.

So yeah just my opinion if you're going to spend that much money on a watercooling setup, the triple radiator... lol i'll bet ANY car radiator will beat that thing's performance, well i guess car rads are huge and weighs a crapload. Anyways, if you're going to spend that much money on watercooling setup, might as well save a tiny bit more for a prometeia mach2 ls.

But still that kit's great, you should buy another XP120 with a Silverstone 120mm fan, and a 226watt peltier. Epoxy the peltier on the radiator, I said I don't trust peltiers on components(GPU/CPU) But I trust it on radiators since it'll just make the water cooler. Then use the XP120 to cool the peltier.

I have 2 Cheetahs(Seagate 15000rpm) for a while now on an Adaptec SCSI raid controller And no they're not watercooled, got those Vantec dual fan thingy cooling it.

The card i'm using is Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S, and the motherboard i'm currently using is the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI.

hi bud.

i dont think i be needing the pelter, i live in england and its freezing here it was snowing yesterday (its 2.30 am so 2 days ago) and this takes me onto my second mod i did with my window in my bedroom.

my window is constructed of UPVC White in colour and a aluminium frame inside the upvc frame e,t,c

i drilled two 1/2 holes througth the frame then swirled the drill to make the holes slightly bigger, then i made a white upvc box which could house the triple radiater and made it weather proof with some silicone bath sealer, the power wire was easy to feed through the window with the speed controler wire, the window shuts perfictly, i fed the tubes through the frame attached the tubing to the radiaters connected all together and presto.

Super out door cooled radiaters and ultra silent, note extra tubing was needed and the wires had to be cut and extended so soldering required and it does help when ur pc is next to the window.

outside temp at night is 2-4 C and day time is 14 C approx, my cpu is usally cooled to 20 C and below and so is the GRFIX and MB. nite time it goes down to 11C approx or below and all ran at minimum speed on fans.

cant wait until it goes below freezing point outside then i be pushing higher OC`s but one problem my psu seems to be stuggling to provide power my 12volt rail seems low its at 11.7 to 11.6 it keeps fluctuating all other rails are GOOD its a 480watt TT butterfly.



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wusy you could be right but the highest temp i have had is 23C across the board and that everything pushed to the tops.

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Water cooling can make motherboard components overheat. What, you thought the CPU fan was only for the CPU cooler? Hehe, I added a 50mm fan to my chipset sink after that got scalding hot. Of course I modded it for 7v, so I wouldn't hear it. And what about the CPU voltage regulator?

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Kind of defeats the purpose of using water cooling for silence, eh?

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Well silence, if you use a whole bunch of fans then turned down using a fan controller, you can keep the noise down pretty low, as for motherboard overheating, I don't know about that, I mean with watercooling, you take the heat of the CPU and GPU to outside of the case if you're using exterior mount of radiator which I highly recommends. So with the 2 major heatsources taken to outside of the case, the case interior temp will drop, and I think that really helps to cool motherboard components.

You have your rad outside your case right?

No, in fact, the opposite is true. After moving the heat from the CPU and GPU to an external radiator, I found my northbridge (large passive cooler) was SCALDING HOT! The only case ventilation was an 80mm fan at the hard drives, turned down using 7v.

The parts around the CPU RELLY on the CPU cooler to circulate air over them. A side fan on the case would do the trick, but the thing is, removing the CPU heat from the case doesn't do crap for the stuff around the CPU.

Case fans remove heat too. But even with my case wide open my passive northbridge cooler was scalding hot: It relies on the CPU cooler. And without that, I was forced to mount a fan.

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You're using a case fan to cool it, one that's in the same vacinity as the CPU fan would have been.

My side fan would be aimed at the underside of the video card, if I used it.

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Opus MT-200.

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Yes water cooling is great. In my experience I needed to do a little more to the cooling than just put a pump and rad in. I had found that even after putting in a new water cooling system I was still running higher than I wanted to so I started looking at chilers. I built a chiller and got rid of the fans. My external temps are below the 0 mark and I have one fan for air flow so if you do go water don't be shocked if you too some day will be looking at a chiller.