watercooling?

[herulach]

Seperate loops is basically a bad idea.

What cooler do you have on your CPU? The jump to water cooling, isn't that big, especially when you don't have a CPU that needs loads of volts to be chucked at it, such as a clawhammer, or runs hotter than most, X2, prescott.

You can buy a quality heatsink, like the Thermaltake Big Typoon, and it will pefrorm close to most water cooling setups, or a Thermalright Xp120, or XP90c. Mod the case, with some kind of duct, it's not using hot air from case.

Having used water cooling myself, it was more a pain, than anything, and it's still gonna be a bit noisy, fans at 5v, no matter what the rad/fans, aren't gonna provide brilliant performance that you would expect for spending 200quid.

Have you thought about modding a CPU heatsink to your video card?

Id be dubious as to the quality of the watercooling you used. my system cost me 225 quid, fans run at 5V, cpu load temps are 33 degrees, and GPU load temps are 80 (I ave a faulty sensor, used to read about 110 on air, it clearly isnt this hot). The only noise is from the chipset fan, which i couldnt figure out how to get off at the time i installed the watercooling, and the cd rom drives.

[dangel]

Mmmm yeah - water is far better both in terms of efficiency (around times that of air) and noise. It's not for nothing that air-cooled cars are a thing of the past - it's simply far easier to get rid of lots of heat with water. A decent setup should be able to consume far more heat-wattage than any _sensible_ air system (as in not having a jet turbine installed that your neighbours can hear) whilst running with minimal noise. As i've posted elsewhere, my GPU has dropped by 32-34C at idle - that's pretty darn significant

[project187]

agreed that is and yes myu cpu will take more and im getting a more demanding cpu if you read earlier posts.
i also plan to get a newer mobo at some point for more overclocking options so no doubt more volts will be running through.
thanks for your help what would be really great is if you could either recomend me a kit with a link mayb or if you could gimme a list of parts that has worked well, my system is in the thing and any questions i will happily answer thanks for your help.

[neonplanet40]

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/home.htm

this is best site for watercooling. theres a build ur own kit option. Danger den is excellent and the waterblock for the gpu can kool 30 degrees less under load than reference cooler.

Neo

^^im getting a danger den one btw

[Smokey21]

Id be dubious as to the quality of the watercooling you used. my system cost me 225 quid, fans run at 5V, cpu load temps are 33 degrees, and GPU load temps are 80 (I ave a faulty sensor, used to read about 110 on air, it clearly isnt this hot). The only noise is from the chipset fan, which i couldnt figure out how to get off at the time i installed the watercooling, and the cd rom drives.

Pretty much the best at the time:

6002 Swifty, Maze 4 Acetal, Dual Heatercore from US from 'Weapon' with Sanyo Danki 38mm fans, Aquaxtreme 50z, 1.2Tygon, bla bla.

Sure water cooling is better, but i don't think it's worth it at all. You can get similar performance with a good heatsink and fan. Silent water cooling, won't offer great performance.

Well dengel i dropped my old 7800GTX 20C to 55idle just by using an old AMD64 fan on 7V.

Tempuratures really aren't that important anyways, not likepeople make out. So your gonna gain what? 100mhz extra on an average cpu clock using water? wow.

GPU's also don't tend to overclock that much better unless you volt mod, though water cooling the GPU does bring better results that the CPU as they run a lot hotter.

[dangel]

On the contrary - temperatures all _all important_ as lower temps = more headroom for overclocking

[Smokey21]

On the contrary - temperatures all _all important_ as lower temps = more headroom for overclocking

Sure, but only to a certain degree. Majorly depends on the luck of the hardware, and voltage.

Just water cooling won't give you much of an overclock at all.

[project187]

lol guys thanks for your help fortunatly i have now got my fx-55 and it damn sure going past 3 lol i have decided on a setup,i will elt you know what the outcome is in bout three days

[bright_]

Danger Den RBX, Black Ice Extreme Rad (whichever size you want) and an eheim pump ftw.

[Smokey21]

lol guys thanks for your help fortunatly i have now got my fx-55 and it damn sure going past 3 lol i have decided on a setup,i will elt you know what the outcome is in bout three days

What kind, Clawhammer or San Diego?

Expect to gain 150mhz tops with water cooling, throwing lots of volts at it.

Bright, the RBX is a silly choice, 3 tubes for a start, either the TDX, or the Swiftech 6000 series, or the newer Storm.

[Butcher]

Swifty 6000 with a low-end to normal pump. Storm if you have a beast of a pump.

[dangel]

Sure, but only to a certain degree.

lol, think about that one

[bright_]

reason I said RBX, is because I've had good results with them