Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71473/ 2008-11-22T18:18:49-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71473/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-05-10T15:09:24-05:00 Tam the Bam http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71473/#535677 <br /> I spent a fortune last summer on my liquid cooling system (all details in my profile),<br /> and to be honest, there's not much of a gap in the difference. OC is 3.80GHz, the temps<br /> idle at mid to late 30's which i think is s**t. I expect 20c+. But the 2x120MM rads are<br /> cooled by 2x120mm fans. 3x120mm fans in front, and a further 2 more at the rear.<br /> I have the huuuuuuuge Thermaltake Mozart case which'll allow heat to rise more efficiently.<br /> I have friends who have a same CPU (Q6600 Rev G0) and they achieve similar temps<br /> with their quality HSF's.<br /> <br /> To get the results I wanna achieve, in theory, I have to chill my liquid in both the res and<br /> the Rads, and keep it constant. 5c to 10c idle would be a blessing for me. Havin 2<br /> fans on rads, really isn't gonna make much of a difference compared to hfs's. Somin<br /> that I've noticed over time and been proved by my friends systems.<br /> <br /> During Prime, or games, it raises to 50's and mids. Before i liquid cooled, I my assumptions<br /> were very low temps. So after this water cooling experience, I have to rethink for<br /> my future build and how I can obtain low temps without being to extreme. <br /> <br /> text/html 2008-05-10T14:08:18-05:00 David Allen http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71473/#0 But sometimes it is.<br /> Right so for the safety and protection of those involved all names and companies have been renamed to <br /> <br /> protect them... this is actually a HUGE LIE, nothing has been modified cause everything is jacked up!!<br /> <br /> So the story starts out with me buying and building my almost dream PC (my dream PC would have had <br /> <br /> 2 &quot;Duo 2 Core&quot; 3.8GHz processors but I didn't really deem it necessary to throw out the extra cash) <br /> <br /> but anyway, part of my dream PC was also a rocking liquid cooling kit. Now that I did throw the <br /> <br /> money out for, in fact about $270 USD for it in fact. Now the CEO (John Lyon) of Cool-IT Systems <br /> <br /> himself told me it would manage a Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor (641 Model), the receptionist at <br /> <br /> the company told me it would, John the Tech Support guy told me it would... it didn't... it leaked on my <br /> <br /> ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Graphics Card (at the time it was thee best GPU and cost me $475 - I had <br /> <br /> gotten a coupon for it <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile3.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":D" title=":D"> ). So I freaked out and sent it to them for repairs, John Lyon told me their <br /> <br /> liquid in the kits had frozen in the warehouse... I believed him, got the kit back... it leaked again, except <br /> <br /> this time a LOT worse, half of the card was covered with their pretty blue liquid that made me scream <br /> <br /> like a blonde in a horror film. It also leaked on my Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Sound <br /> <br /> Card, my Western Digital Raptor-X 150GB hard drive and 1 drop on my Intel D975 XBX 2 <br /> <br /> Motherboard, and of course all over the bottom of the case. The system runs ok minus the fact that I <br /> <br /> get a slow down on certain areas of &quot;Hitman: Blood Money&quot; and it took me a long time to figure out for <br /> <br /> a hundred percent certainty if it was in fact the spill or the drivers or the game etc. (with PC software it <br /> <br /> is always something, is it not?).<br /> So what is my point to all this you ask??... Good question. My point is that after this I did some <br /> <br /> studying and as it turns out a $24.00 USD copper processor heat sink, with 80mm fan at the front of the <br /> <br /> case and a 120mm fan at the read of the case, cools almost twice as well as their FreeZone liquid <br /> <br /> cooling kit. On top of that it won't LITERALLY fall apart (the tube MELTED and the little metal sign <br /> <br /> FELL OFF!! - while playing Hitman: Blood Money) and the fans won't ever leak blue stuff all over your <br /> <br /> beautiful and might I add EXPENSIVE PC!!