water cooler for 4800+x2 good or bad

[ilikecomputers]

is it a good way to go to make my bros com cool he has fatory std fan heat sink he leves it on 24/7 and get up to 54 58"c

 

[chuckshissle]

idle or full load? That's a pretty good cpu and probably doesn't need to be overclock since it's pretty fast, for now. But a good hsf and AS5 should do the trick and decrease that temps.

 

[Clob]

Maybe increasing the caseflow and a good cleaning can drop the temp a few C.

 

[AgtX]

Whats the ambient temperature in the room?

I used the Scythe Ninja heatsink and my AMD64x2 4400+ never got over 40 degrees. But its too big for some cases.

I just bought the Asetek waterchill Xternal water cooler and its keeping everything at 29 degrees idle temp at 25% fan speed (it has 4x 120mm fans) so its quiet too. Playing a game like Elder scrolls oblivion with all graphics at full it never goes over 32 degrees.

I have the cpu and 2x 7800gtx cards in the loop in Sli. Before watercooling the 2 gfx cards were hitting 63 degrees, now less than half that temp.

 

[ALL_YOUR_BASE]

Watercooling is a great way but it requires maintenence so if your brother wants the easiest solution get him a highend hsf. Tom's got a great article on some of the best:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/04/25/six_coolers_for_amd_processors/

I'd try one of these since you wont really need watercooling unless you really overclock.