Tempted by Water Cooling...

[moogle]

Also don't be fooled into thinking it will be silent either, again top end watercooling systems tend to use alot of fans so unless you are prepared to spend £50 on fans it could get quite noisy.

But they are silent, 3 fans running at lower speeds cooling a bigger heat dissipation area (radiator) than 1 fan on the heatsink, possibly 2. If you get a good radiator you can use any normal fans you want.

[shbris]

get yourself some soft padding or noise dampening material when you place the order as well

you can use it to isolate the pump to stop vibrations, make it a bit quieter


on a side note, has anyone every had any problems with vibrations from the waterblock/pump on a swiftech compact? was planning to get one but read a few places today that it can be a bit noisy

[vincent.m]

i think that Water cooling is just a step too far. i still fail to understand why people want so much power for a PC i mean anything above 2.4ghz is kinda a good speed?

[moogle]

i think that Water cooling is just a step too far. i still fail to understand why people want so much power for a PC i mean anything above 2.4ghz is kinda a good speed?

Depends on what you use it for. Helps alot when getting that extra speed on your CPU if you do rendering or video editing/encoding often. If you're just playing your games stick with air cooling I suppose, unless you've got money for it.

[Webby]

Watercooling is a bit of a lifestyle choice, I see it more as a hobby than just a way of cooling my components and while it is expensive its only really the initial investment once you have a pump, radiators, reservoir, fittings etc all you will need to replace is blocks if they become incompatible with new hardware.

Of course it is not for everyone but once you start as long as you go in eyes open you probably wont stop

[mac124]

But they are silent, 3 fans running at lower speeds cooling a bigger heat dissipation area (radiator) than 1 fan on the heatsink, possibly 2. If you get a good radiator you can use any normal fans you want.

Within reason yes it can be very quiet, totally silent if you go passive like the reserator but these don't work well on high overclocks or cooling multiple parts, but if you want very good cooling for high overclocks or multiple parts then it can be just as noisy or noisier than a normal heatsink.

Depends what the op wants which is why i asked the question and pointed out it might not be as quiet as he thinks unless he is prepared to invest in a decent set up.

[Jay]

I used to watercool my old P4 and got that up from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz stable and 3.2GHz for every day use. I now cool my g/f's PC with a nice litle cooler I got from this very forum!

Here is another of my test bed watercooled setups



I don't use watercooling in my main gaming PC though.

[vincent.m]

I used to watercool my old P4 and got that up from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz stable and 3.2GHz for every day use. I now cool my g/f's PC with a nice litle cooler I got from this very forum!

Here is another of my test bed watercooled setups

I don't use watercooling in my main gaming PC though.

why not??

[Jay]

OCuK sent me a faulty cooler that failed after a couple of days and destroyed 2 of the 4 memoy slots so I haven't bothered since.