Whether the knowledge comes from a school science class, television, or the Internet, many of us already know the basic principles of phase-change cooling. Gasses absorb heat during expansion, cooling the surrounding area. A gas that has been compressed to a liquid state absorbs even more heat as it changes phase back to a gaseous state, in the same way that water absorbs a great amount of energy as it boils. Gasses likewise give off heat during compression, which is why traditional refrigerators and air conditioners use an outside radiator to remove heat from the gas after it’s compressed. Cooling the compressed gas allows it to change to a liquid state, giving way to the term “condenser” as a name for the “hot-side” radiator.

The evaporator is where a CPU phase-change cooler departs from a traditional refrigerator or air conditioner. While the gas-to-gas heat exchangers of those familiar household appliances resemble a second radiator, a CPU chiller uses a much smaller block-shaped evaporator to draw heat away from the CPU.

What appears to be a chunk of copper at the end of a hose on the unit above is actually a hollow evaporation chamber connected to two high-pressure lines, with the higher-pressure side delivering the liquid and the lower-pressure side drawing away the resulting gas. The manufacturer for this device, Cooler Express is a Taiwanese firm that produces a variety of single-head, dual-head, chilled liquid and cloud-chamber coolers for electronics cooling, production processes, and laboratory research environments.
The list of parts included in the package will mostly be determined by the seller. Because the original bracket set did not support Intel’s most recent processors, FrozenCPU.com had a new mounting block machined out of aluminum to support LGA 1156 and LGA 1366 sockets. The aluminum mount is anodized black to match the original plastic part, and also includes a new socket support plate with corresponding holes. FrozenCPU.com adds the remaining hardware to complete the second mounting kit, allowing builders to borrow parts from the original mounting kit if needed. FrozenCPU.com sells the complete unit with both installation kits as its Cooler Express 2010 Super Single Evaporator CPU Cooling Unit.
- Cooling Comes Full Circle
- The Compressor Returns
- The Test Platform
- Cooler Express Installation, By-The-Book
- Insulation Installation
- Just Add...Water?
- Reworking The Installation
- Basic Overclocking
- Reaching The Goal
- Test Settings
- Benchmark Results: 3D Games
- Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: Synthetics
- Power And Efficiency
- Victory At Last?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i3-gaming,2588.html
For the CPU to become the choking point, you need the GPU to be extremely powerful. Tom's Hardware formerly used unrealistic tests like Half Life 2 at 640x480 just to prove the CPU performance difference in games, but the fact that nobody used those settings eventually lead to the discontinuation of that testing method.
Did you mean Corsair?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i3-gaming,2588.html
For the CPU to become the choking point, you need the GPU to be extremely powerful. Tom's Hardware formerly used unrealistic tests like Half Life 2 at 640x480 just to prove the CPU performance difference in games, but the fact that nobody used those settings eventually lead to the discontinuation of that testing method.
There was a thread several months ago comparing the Intel Vs AMD platforms regarding the graphic card bottleneck. Suprising enough Intel cpus capped at a certain overclock where as AMD did not, eventually becoming faster FPS but required a much higher clock speed. It was determined that Intel has a limit on pcie bandwidth. Good luck finidng it, its probably over 6 months old.
back to the arcitle, very interesting, and extremely expensive to even consider doing something like this.
Add in the cost and time required to set this type of thing up as well as coating the MB ... lol, I don't even want to think about actually trying to go this extreme.
Water is good for me, and if I want extreme, I will wait till winter and throw my radiator out the window while its freezing outside and pump antifreeze through it lol.
Nope coolmaster has a whole line of PSU's... they are decent and perhaps compareable to Corsair for albeit a slightly lower price point. But Oc'ing to 5.ghz and above is really crazy stuff here. I am actually happy with 3.0 and above already stock but damn, I dont think i would like to tax my system to 5.0 and above, regardless of cooling! It would cost more, but I do see the sport of it and commend those that take time to reach 5.0 and above figures with regular water cooled systems.
The article specifically states that the "added expense" figures are based on the 480W it takes to run the cooler. It assumes you're already planning to use the rest of the system at whatever speed you can get WITHOUT the cooler, and tells you how much MORE it costs to use the cooler. I think its fairly well explained, but feel free to point out any specific spot I missed, thanks!
Phenoms can reach that, why would you overclock an Athlon II anyway? This is a little pointless toms had to disable hyper-threading. Effectively killing off I'd say 45% of the CPUs juice. Im already running my Phenom II X6 @ 4.5GHz on water cooling. It runs everything vary well and with the money I saved on the CPU, I got 5850s in crossfire. All in a Micro ATX case...
I'm sure Tom's have 2 x 5970 at their disposal and if they don't, just don't start to work if you don't have the proper tools. Cause the quality (results) will disapoint. Come on... I know there are Tom's fanboys on this website, which is understandable, but bottlenecking a stock 980X with a 5850 and then making graphs with how FPS don't change if you increase the frequence is just... sad.
There's a nice German fellow working on a 5 stage cascade at xtremesystems, too bad its taken him over a year and a half without completion. Tom's should go ninja it from him when he finishes and bench a i7-980x and a Atom N270.
Too many of hese 32nm melting below 1.4V (Highest I tried on air for my i7-920 was 1.55V).
however the price/performance/convenience factor completely obliterates the result ... as was expected ...