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This question is going to sound stupid, but I'm perplexed, and I need to know.
I was looking at Alienware (haven't looked at the site for about 4 years) just to see what kind of craziness was available these days. I saw a water-cooled rig with an FX-60 and Quad SLi being water cooled by what looked to be very small tubing and no rad in sight. I was confused and wondered how this rig could even run for extended periods of time without having the water boil. Then I read that it uses a chiller. It started to make sense since the CPU block was huge and I couldn't see what was actually in there. I guess it was a pelt?
I'm just confused. I thought water chillers were huge. Maybe the water chiller they're using is crap, but it's good enough to keep that FX-60 and 4 GPUs cool, so it can't be that crappy. Does anyone know more about the Alienware water chiller system? It seems really compact and I'm wondering if I can adapt what they did to my own rig to make a more effective system. I only have 1 CPU and 1 GPU, so if they can make that work for them, then I should be able to make it work for me right?
I was looking at Alienware (haven't looked at the site for about 4 years) just to see what kind of craziness was available these days. I saw a water-cooled rig with an FX-60 and Quad SLi being water cooled by what looked to be very small tubing and no rad in sight. I was confused and wondered how this rig could even run for extended periods of time without having the water boil. Then I read that it uses a chiller. It started to make sense since the CPU block was huge and I couldn't see what was actually in there. I guess it was a pelt?
I'm just confused. I thought water chillers were huge. Maybe the water chiller they're using is crap, but it's good enough to keep that FX-60 and 4 GPUs cool, so it can't be that crappy. Does anyone know more about the Alienware water chiller system? It seems really compact and I'm wondering if I can adapt what they did to my own rig to make a more effective system. I only have 1 CPU and 1 GPU, so if they can make that work for them, then I should be able to make it work for me right?