I hear a lot about how water cooling is great and all… but I need to know how much better than air cooling it really is. I wanna know if we’re talking just a few degrees in difference or a huge improvement? Is water cooling really worth all the trouble or installing a massive air cooled solution like the Big Typhoon from Thermaltake will to the same thing? Money isn’t the issue here… I just wanna make sure I get the best possible cooling solution for a new PC I just built. See brief specs bellow:

Athlon 64 4000+ 939
LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
2GB Twin XMS pro Corsair RAM
7800 gtx GeForce
250GB Hitachi HDD
Sony DVDR
Asus Vento 3600 (black)

If anyone could help me out on this I really appreciate the help. Thank you.

If money isnt an issue get a VaporChill set up. should be around $700?? Not really sure. That will keep ur CPU cool. hehe

Oompa is right vaporchill is absolute best solution. After OC your cpu it would still run at below 0C

Heres one

http://www.jab-tech.com/product.php?productid=2712

THis aint exactly for Daddy Warbucks, but the TT BigWaterSE at $100 complete, need nothing else, is one heck of a quality system, and keeps my Opteron 175 at 2x 2420MHz at around 41C under load.

Vapochill is definetely nice... but I dont wanna have a big box with a hose coming out of my system case. I wanna try to keep things clean... my PC stays in the living room and huh... my GF is already not too happy with that at all... specially if it had a big box sitting on the side with cables and a big black hose sticking out. But I agreen though, Vapochill seems like the ultimate cooling solution.

Im kind of in the same bind. Reserchin chillers. I just ordered AMD 64 3,700+ SanDiago core and a ATI X850XT vic crd with the intention OC'n both as much as poss. Was lookin at the 3,700,3,800 and 4,000+. Liked the bigger cache of the 3,700 and 4,000. But was informed that the 4,000+ has overclocking disabled 8O so went with the 3,700. Was only bout 220.00also. If that OC'n isnt disabled or was a myth, or u found a way around, please post.
G-Man

If ya got to have a fu<king vaporchill just to reach the speeds ya desire, get a fu(king Intel and overclock to 4GHz on air for christ's sake... Talk about generating heat and burning electricity!!!

1) a FEW degrees is a HUGE deal because watercoolers pay a premium just for that extra 0.5 degree of temp

2) if you have really good air cooling, water will only go so far as the ambient temp will go. so don't expect miracles

3) some people suggest phase chilling, but since you don't seem that knowledgable in cooling (no offense), i would say stay away from phase. it is very loud, very heavy, needs lots of maintance and will cause physical damage if not taken care of or misused.

From a power standpoint, phase cool chillin is not practical.

it is true that phase uses lots of electricity, but as far as single stages go, its the most efficient cooler beatign water and air by a large margin

Efficient in moving heat, yes, in actual power bill costs and heat released into the room, no. People around always bitchin bout Intel being hot and puttin off steam in the room, cooking eggs, whatnot, an AMD rig with phase cooling is burning alot more watts and puttin off alot more heat takin account the cooling unit. Now if you vented it to the outside, that would negate some of the problem.

efficiency is not calculated by how much energy is used, but how much energy is used in context of teh cooling power. if you take in teh fact that phase cools way more than water and air, then it can viewed as more efficient even though it uses more electricity

agreed, like I said, not practical for everyday use... especially if you pay your own bills and upgrades as parts fry.

wooooord

Should I ever buy INTEL I will need to use a NUKE cooling.
You nuke it and watch how it flies!

On other hand INTEL PeNTIUM is great.
The best cooling system for PENTIUM 4 I've seen was 4 chineese eating fried rice with hot chilli pepper and blowing on it to keep it running!
Huston we have problem.

I am generally opposing any overclockin as it is only a fools meal.

Why spend money on cooling rig instead inwesting them in best CPU and be fu>king happy with no sores on your ass?


PS.

Try DRY ICE cooling, if your Freedom Fries are to hot for you!
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Lian Li PC 602 black
Enermax 600 W Eg 701 Noisetaker 24 pin
ASUS A8N SLI Premium (dual RAID - 8 SATA ports) 939 (with external extended 2 SATA ports))
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HP DeskJet 9680
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WINDOWS XP PRO
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Nero 7.02B (NO to ROXIO!)

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ThermalTake BigWaterSE 12cm liquid cooling system complete kit
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Logitech G-15 Gaming Keyboard
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you are right about that dude My picks will prove that water cooling will only do so much that is why I went with a home built system, the picks will show you such. Good forced air is very importand for cooling the water in the rad. This I do know and most of the dudes in here know what I have.

Every one is falsly boasting about their RIG .i would suggest u to try some true tunning just get a pair of neon and an eye catching casing and a liquid coolant that glows in the dark .then som o'cloking & get to the lan party with some games

care to elaborate on any falsities I made???

i personnaly like oil but between thos two water would be better