Friendly competition between friends

sporktar said:

I love both builds, i'm a huge fan of diy watercooling. Reminds me of the old-school threads back when people still regularly made their own waterblocks. My vote went to the AMD machine purely for the "hardline" look, but the creativity and "hybrid" intel build is pretty sweet too, and probably helps with extra surface area for heat displacement/redundancy. You could try putting some ice in your reservoir to lower temps even further, just be careful to avoid condensation.

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ATMINSIDE said:

This will be counteracted (to some degree) by having the radiator and air coolers still outside of the ice water.
They are going to try to normalize the loop to ambient temperatures no matter whether the water inside the loop is warmer or cooler than ambient.

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sporktar said:

I was referring more towards the intel build since it doesn't have a radiator, though you are right, the cpu fan and gpu heatsink would counteract the ice to a degree. At the same time, it would probably allow for slightly better temps over long gaming sessions, or at least delay the heating up of the res.

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sporktar said:

I love both builds, i'm a huge fan of diy watercooling. Reminds me of the old-school threads back when people still regularly made their own waterblocks. My vote went to the AMD machine purely for the "hardline" look, but the creativity and "hybrid" intel build is pretty sweet too, and probably helps with extra surface area for heat displacement/redundancy. You could try putting some ice in your reservoir to lower temps even further, just be careful to avoid condensation.

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