Water Cooling

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

How are pumps connected to power, i assume they are molex powered. Looking at getting water cooling in the future and have been reading up on it and this is one of my wonders lol Smile

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Might post some possible parts for a kit up soon.
What are peoples thoughts on water cooling??

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sun, 24 May 2009 13:19:12 Post Subject:

To me... water cooling seems like an unnecessary hassle these days. Air coolers are so efficient and easy, plus the CPUs are all generally put out less heat, so I wouldn't bother with water cooling again. Back in the day I liked it, but not now.

Too much set up time and effort, there is the need for maintenance, and upgrades become a big hassle.

I have an overclocked quad core Xeon in my desktop that has an air cooler with no fan (Cooler Master Hyper Z600) and it runs cooler than the water cooled D840 I ran back a few years ago.

Just my Two Cents

And on the pump question - many are 12V 4-pin Molex, but some are direct 120V AC powered with a cable that passes out of the case.

Shadowsilence · Posted: Sun, 24 May 2009 13:24:15 Post Subject:

I tried water cooling awhile back. Make sure you use the non-conductive fluid. Mine sprung a leak about a month after install and probably would have fried my whole computer had I used typical water.
Water cooling is an expensive venture if you want to do it correctly. Just plan accordingly

Digerati · Rated NC-17 Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 111

I honestly never had the time or money for water-cooling. It also seems like a bit of a novelty to me. As Jason said, air cooling technology has rapidly advanced to give amazing results that are usually very few degrees lower than water-cooling results. My Noctua NH-C12P keeps my E8400 running like a beast with low temps. The only reasons I'd get water cooling is if I wanted to show off my e-penor on an over clock or plainly for eye candy and status.

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

Well my thought was to initally use it on an i7 920 basically just over the stock cooling on it but also possibly at somepoint incorporate a gtx 295 as it runs fairly hot and i think water could cool it fairly well, not sure though. Just a thought at the minute. Anyone got experience of gtx 295 cooling?? Or custom style cooling for it?? If i could keep something like that cooled well i would probably just go for a decent quiet cpu heatsink. Hoping by the time ive got my pc the market for i7 coolers, be watr or air, will have expanded alot more as there isnt alot of choice to get a specific i7 cooler.

Bojamijams · Rated PG Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 21

CPU's are not getting more efficient.. the i7 is a furnace compared to the Core2Quad

I've gone to watercooling and I'm not going back.. air coolers as efficient as water cooling now? hah.. yeah right.. maybe if you're on the north pole with a -30celsius ambient..

There is simply no match for the quietness and the extreme cooling capability that water-based heat transfer provides.. my E7300 is a stupidly inefficient chip that needs 1.5v to achieve 3.8ghz 24/7.. on air cooling I couldn't do that and was limited to 3.4ghz with high 70's on a hot day, and loud noise.. now I Have no noise, am running 4ghz at 1.6v and only barely hitting 60celsius on a hot day.

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK

Im still not sure, id want to eventually get a gtx 295 into the water loop but it looks fairly awkward to install any blocks to it and the BFG version that comes with waterblock on it is about Â£200-Â£300 more than a standard one lol. So not too sure. Have to see if i am able to win anything lol.

Bojamijams · Rated PG Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 21

I wouldn't waste time with watercooling a single graphics card.. usually they can exhaust their air fine, unless you have a REALLY cramped case. Its when you do multi-card setups that water cooling really pays off as two cards, sandwhiched together, is a recipe for danger.

However, if your video card allows voltage changes, then you might wanna do water cooling for the video cards to see how much you can crank those core/shader/mem voltages

anerky99 · Rated XXX Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 219 Location: UK