Re: News - Gigabyte teases insane WaterForce liquid cooler
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Originally Posted by
shaithis
Why do people need water-cooled PCs any more?
+1
Used to be obsessed with water cooling in an attempt to overclock and have a silent system. Now use a £20 Gelit CPU cooler and decent GPU card custom cooler and my system is silent with a CPU/GPU that doesn't need overclocking and runs silent.
With CPU's and GPU's getting cooler, smaller and less power hungry..... I agree with shaithis, water cooling is not required to achieve overclocks or silence anymore.
Although I do miss the look of tubes and water in my PC.
Also, that demo machine is terrible looking - would have thought they would have spent some time on cable management.
Re: News - Gigabyte teases insane WaterForce liquid cooler
Well that looks like something I could never afford
Re: News - Gigabyte teases insane WaterForce liquid cooler
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Why do people need water-cooled PCs any more?
to annoy people who ask why instead of how.
Re: News - Gigabyte teases insane WaterForce liquid cooler
I wonder who was in charge of their cable management... Catweazle, perhaps?
Re: News - Gigabyte teases insane WaterForce liquid cooler
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Originally Posted by
flearider
1 rad for 3 cards ?? never... defeats the object cool and quiet ..
@shaithis r9 290 running at 44 deg c at load and quiet and a 5ghz cpu also quiet ..
could be people like the quiet side of it ..
The extra pic on vr-z that shows the radiator shows that it's not your standard water rad, looks to me like a bunch of heat pipes and heatsinks. There is also 3 pumps and 6 water lines so each card has it's own loop.
It has potential but we'll just have to wait and see.
How many 'custom' loops are designed by thermodynamic experts ? diy doesn't automatically make it better than the experts. I have seen some truly awful designs in my time where components haven't been matched together. Mainly pumps & tubing that are totally out of kilter with the rest of the system.
Re: News - Gigabyte teases insane WaterForce liquid cooler
I'd like to see more about how it works, but this could be right up my alley.
I upgrade a lot, and have done full water loops before, but don't like thm because t turns the fun expereieence of getting a new graphics card or cpu into a days work usually filled with lots of swearing.
I would love a custom water loop that would allow me to upgrade and drop in components without ever having to drain the loop and re-do the tubing.
Re: News - Gigabyte teases insane WaterForce liquid cooler
_Why_ attach via the front panel? That's fugly as hell.