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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 05:45 Edited at: 16th Jan 2008 05:55
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Well, I've finally made the jump to liquid cooling! I've been using air-cooling forever, just because I've never had a case big enough to install liquid cooling, but I finally decided to get a new case an cooling kit.







I've been able to overclock my Q6600 from 2.40GHz to 3.60GHz, and I never go over 56C under load.

Anyone else here use liquid cooling? I wanna see other people setups!


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Benjamin
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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 05:50 Edited at: 16th Jan 2008 05:50
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Cool.

Why is everything blue though? And what's with the fans when you're now using water cooling?

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 05:53 Edited at: 16th Jan 2008 05:53
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The fan by the graphics cards is to get more air to them, since that area of the case isn't as well ventilated - The fan onto of the waterblock is just for show, and it makes no noise - The fan at the back of the case helps feed the radiator.

Whats wrong with blue???


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tha_rami
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In France, where Benjamin lives, they still have to invent 'colored electric light'. It could have to do with that.


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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 05:57
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Still haven't taken down your Christmas decorations I see, and where's the warp drive?

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Benjamin
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Quote: "In France, where Benjamin lives, they still have to invent 'colored electric light'."

According to the laws of physics I know of, electricity can't be coloured, sorry.

Quote: "Whats wrong with blue???"

Nothing, it looks cool actually. It's just... it's a PC.

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When i bought my new PSU, it had all these lights in the fan. I opened the PSU and ripped them out and threw them. HA! Stupid lights, if they don't benefit my computer in any way, they don't belong there.

Nice setup though, SLI and stuff.

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 06:00
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I'd get some small fish for the reservoir if there wasn't anti-freezing/anti-corrosive liquid in there...


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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 06:01 Edited at: 16th Jan 2008 06:03
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The French also appear to have problems with more than one adjective before a noun.


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10 days ago, my 3DMark06 score was 13k.. Now with the processor overclocked more and lots of tweaking, I just passed 18k.. It's like building a tuner car, only more fun!


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Careful there hotrod, if you push the machine too far you'll blow a headgasket.

Been there, done that. Resulted in RAM getting fried, but the BIOS didn't detect the bad section of memory, so programs and data started getting corrupted, and that corruption made it into the filesystem, ended up having to use disk recovery to reconstruct the data I lost, buying new memsticks and turning that CPU speed back down to normal. I ran it for several days getting all kinds of weird errors from programs before I ran a linux bootdisk with memcheck and discovered the evil memory section.

But hey, if you've got money/data to blow, go for it

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Haha, I'm being as careful as possible! I've learned the lesson before on my old HP--graphics cards aren't invincible..


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El Goorf
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pfft.. 2.4ghz to 3.6, thats a 50% overclock. i did a 50% overclock on my cpu, under load it never exceeds 35 degrees, and all i have is a standard heatsink and fan

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Silvester
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I did a 50% overclock on my older CPU, and it kindof jumped outof my case at the moment windows started to load(Frag... Uh, CPU out!)

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Quote: "pfft.. 2.4ghz to 3.6, thats a 50% overclock. i did a 50% overclock on my cpu, under load it never exceeds 35 degrees, and all i have is a standard heatsink and fan"

Cheaper Core 2's tend to overclock better than the high end/mid-range ones..


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Quote: "pfft.. 2.4ghz to 3.6, thats a 50% overclock. i did a 50% overclock on my cpu, under load it never exceeds 35 degrees, and all i have is a standard heatsink and fan "

You don't have an Asus motherboard as well by chance? I have always found they report CPU temps lower than most other boards.

Looks nice Torsten, wouldn't mind getting water cooling myself but I can't afford it and I would be to paranoid about it leaking. Do you have to turn the pump on manually? I'd probably forget to do that as well.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 14:29 Edited at: 16th Jan 2008 14:36
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One I built earlier for Scraggle and Benjamin admit it, you all want a bow tie for your power button.



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That is.....EPIC!

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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 15:30 Edited at: 16th Jan 2008 15:30
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Quote: "You don't have an Asus motherboard as well by chance? I have always found they report CPU temps lower than most other boards."


actually i dont, it's a gigabyte. the trick is to have the PSU wrapped up in it's own giant heatsink, as the PSU is where a lot of the heat in the system comes from, and getting the antec 900 gaming case with uber airflow, and a few cable tidies to help

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Posted: 16th Jan 2008 20:12
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Quote: "Looks nice Torsten, wouldn't mind getting water cooling myself but I can't afford it and I would be to paranoid about it leaking. Do you have to turn the pump on manually? I'd probably forget to do that as well."

When I set it up, I gave noting in the case power except for the pump/radiator and had everything covered in paper towels. Let it run for about an hour.
Whenever I turn my PC on, the PSU gives everything power, so the cooling starts automatically.
Quote: "actually i dont, it's a gigabyte. the trick is to have the PSU wrapped up in it's own giant heatsink, as the PSU is where a lot of the heat in the system comes from, and getting the antec 900 gaming case with uber airflow, and a few cable tidies to help"

I used an Antec 900 before I got this case. As you said, the PSU creates a lot of heat, and in the Antec 900, the psu is on the bottom right by the graphics cards cards..don't like that part of the design at all..


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Posted: 17th Jan 2008 09:28
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hence the bit about having the psu wrapped up in a giant heatsink

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Posted: 17th Jan 2008 18:07
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I've got the PSU up front, above the CD drives in the empty bay slots, and a rather large cooling fan where it should be.

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Posted: 18th Jan 2008 19:46
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Cooling fans FTL! Radiator fans FTW!


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