Water Cooling

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Gottaa

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Not about water cooling but was reading using SSD's cuts down heat build up alot in computers as no moving parts having to spin really really fast, the article was specifically talking about servers so I guess not having to worry about huge graphics cards but just using an SSD instead of having to worry about water cooling seems like an easy idea
 
Dart

Dart

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Btone said:
yes i do, what do u need to know
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Everything :)

Wheres the best place to buy stuff, whats the best CPU block radiator etc

Thought I might use water instead of air but depends if using water will quieten my computer more than using air.
 
Artanix

Artanix

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Dart said:
Everything :)

Wheres the best place to buy stuff, whats the best CPU block radiator etc

Thought I might use water instead of air but depends if using water will quieten my computer more than using air.
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I may be wrong, but afaik if you want to cool everything, you'd need to get a GPU block and a CPU block for the water cooling, and to cool both, you'd need a pump+reservoir, which is noisy in itself?

Plus other things such as the north bridge, and drives will need cooling, so you'd need some silent case fans too.

My knowledge may be dated, but I looked into it, and decided against it for these reason, plus I don't bother with overclocking anymore
 
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Btone

The Nice Chimp
Dart said:
Everything :)

Wheres the best place to buy stuff, whats the best CPU block radiator etc

Thought I might use water instead of air but depends if using water will quieten my computer more than using air.
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places i have got stuff from

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=962

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/d/Watercooling_713.html

http://www.over-clock.co.uk/acatalog/watercooling.html

http://www.quietpc.com/home?gclid=clbpspaq35acfqeimaodhwntoq

it been 4 years since i last built my main machine (q6600 running at 3.8 (from it stock 2.4), 8 gb memory, started with a watercooled 280 gg but have swaped that out for a water cooled 580 a few years ago )

so i don't like to give out links as the only one i know that still running 100% is overclockers

cant really say which is the best waterblock as i dont know what chip you cooling but ive always like the EK waterblocks, and from what i read swifttech is still good


i build my current machine when my ex threw me out and i had to get my own place, i knew that the PC was going to be my main from of entertainment hence why i got a 30" screen, blu-ray and a mind blowing sound system, but one thing i knew was going to piss me off. the drone of a PC, now i knew from building all my PC, that i could only do so much with fans to cool and to keep the noise lvl down hence why water and it is so very quiet even thinking is enought to drown out the noise the system makes :), btw this is the 3rd watercool machine i build , so i half knew what i was doing. but enought rambling :)

would i do it today if i was in the same boat. i dont think so, a good I5 system will run every thing out today with easy, you dont need massive overclocks any more (it still fun to do) so you not making as much heat as before, also the newer chips should be running cooler that before so they not making as much heat to start with, with the newer range of 140 fans and HS + 160 and 240 case fans, you can run them slow enough so they make very little noise.

the biggest noise will be the graphics card but again the newer cards make i lot less noise than before, get a few case fans blowing air across the so the gpu fans dont have to work so hard and you should be ok.

so tips i would give for building a quiet pc

get agood soild case,viberation will make more noise that the fans will
put the case on rubber feet
mount your HD on rubber mounts (on less it a ssd)
 
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Pegasus Belgar

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How often did you have to change the fluids in the cooling system? Watercoolling scares the shit out of me, worried about leaks on boards etc, and why all my systems are maxxed with cooling fans.
 
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Btone

The Nice Chimp
havent change the water yet, and only had to do a minor top up last year (added about 200ml to the 2.5 l i have in my system. you shouldn't be scared of water. if done right it safe, ive never had a leak yet, i have seen fans stop working tho :)
 
Rochdale

Rochdale

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The best case ever is the coolermaster cosmos 2

Assuming you've got a desk big enough for it to fit under...
 
Bunty

Bunty

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http://www.koolance.com/

http://www.chilledpc.co.uk/shop/

Chilled PC were very good.

I'm fully water cooled in a TJ07, all internal. TJ07 is awesome for water. Motherboard full cover Koolance block, cpu and graphics card all in one loop. I don't overclock, I just wanted it to stfu - I hate all the fan noise. It's way quieter than my old kit on air.

I use deionized water. Never had any leaks. It's also not awful by all accounts if you get leaks 'cos of the science part.

You can get pre-blocked cards too, just add looooop.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-...ddr5-gpu-1058mhz-boost-1110mhz-cores-1536-2xd

EK blocks are ok, but be careful to check board compatibility - I had to do some creative filing to clear some caps on the graphics card when I fitted mine. Works just fine though :)

CPU block is a Swiftech Apogee XT I think.

Only had to top it up once since I built it about 2 1/2 years ago (I think), that was only a tiny amount of deionized too.

Tygon silver 1/2" ID tubing but R3603 is good too.

Would I do it again? Sure. Much more fun than air.
 

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Dart

Dart

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I dont leave my case on the floor, its got a special thing that sits on the side of my desk
 
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Btone

The Nice Chimp
Dart said:
I dont leave my case on the floor, its got a special thing that sits on the side of my desk
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it called a table :)


wish i could find some of the photos i took while i was building this system, i thought i had posted them on here,
outside of the water blocks, i mounted the pump the res and the 2 ThermoChill PA120.3 out side the case on a mod i made
 
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