Water vs Air

[tryinghard]

Hi everyone!

My passion for overclocking has one again risen.
Currently I'm running my system at a shy 4037 mhz (with air-cooling).
My question is, do you guys think I could keep the system cooler with the water-cooling linked below?

Current cooling:
http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=14&lng=en

Possible cooling:
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1273&ID=1412

I'm only interested in the water-cooling linked above because I happen to have it laying around at home, removed it while building my current system because it didn't want to bother with all the tubing.

 

[richardscott]

erm i had a kandalf lcs and it sucked ass, really load temps of 60c. for that money tho id recoment a custom loop will give you much better temps. i am trying to sell my kandalf with a custom loop if ure interested.

 

[tryinghard]

Haha, what luck!
Although I highly doubt we live anywhere near each other.

 

[rubix_1011]

$300?

You could put together a pretty decent starter system for that; one that doesn't include thermaltake.

Something similar to these kits, just more specific to your hardware:

http://www.petrastechshop.com/wacoki.html

 

[tryinghard]

I looked a lot on that site but I can't find any info about shipping.
Since I live in sweden companies often want my first born as shipping fee.
The retailers of water cooling here in sweden are almost none.
I so hate it here... -.-

 

[rubix_1011]

Ohhh, Sweden...well, I dont know about Int'l shipping, but I personally know their customer support is really good. It is at least worth an email to them about their shipping policies...I bet you would get a fast response.

 

[emyyhh]

I use a thermaltake bigwater 745 with a northbridge block and my q6600 can run at 4.0Ghz with temps around 40c idle. 24/7 I have it at 3.6Ghz and it idles at about 25c - which i think is pretty nice. So i'd say your water loop should keep you chip at least as cool as your noctua, if not cooler. What chip btw?

 

[rubix_1011]

q6600 at 4.0? What VID do you have? What volts are you running your chip at right now?

I kind of hit a plateau at about 3.6-3.7 with a 1.2250 VID and running at 1.3575v.

 

[emyyhh]

VID is 1.3125 - so nothing special. To get it superpi stable at 4.0Ghz I had to use about 1.55V, so not a voltage I would want to use for 24/7 use. For 3.6Gz I use 1.35V and it is perfectly stable. The 4.0Ghz was more to see if the chip could manage it.

What do you mean plateau - as in, no matter how much you raised the voltages it wouldn't post higher than 3.7? Or you didn't want to raise the voltages any higher?

 

[rubix_1011]

Nah, I couldn't get it stable...maybe I need a hair more on my voltage. I wonder if I got closer to 1.4v that I would do better with it...either way, they are cheap to replace if the sucker fries. LOL.