I'm very experienced and well knowledged in PCs. Though, I have very little experience with liquid cooling them. I know that water and electricity do not mix very well, which is why I'm here looking for advice.
I've got a Dell Workstation Precision 470. Dual Xeon CPU, hyperthreaded @ 3.2 GHz (2 cores, 4 threads). 5 GB DDR2 RAM. Nvidia 8800 GT, Zalman Edition graphics card. 120 GB HDD. 0T0820 Motherboard.
This thing was great in the winter. It was like a mini space heater. Now, with it being summer tempuratures, it is heating up my room very quickly, and it is getting very very hot in the tower. With this intense heat we've gotten, my computer has shut down due to thermal event when it's at max load in a game. After checking boot logs, it was CPU_0 (my first CPU) that was out of temperature range. This has only happened a couple times, and I'm not too worried.
With all that being said, I think I want to water cool the CPUs. So what I'm asking is....whats the best way to do this? and how could I do it without breaking the bank? I've heard that water cooling kits are not the best way to go. I can build the water cooler myself, however I need to know what I should get, and what blocks will fit the dual Xeon CPUs (Socket: 604 mPGA). What do I need to make this work? A couple blocks that fit the Xeons, a radiator, a water pump, and some tubing? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks
I've got a Dell Workstation Precision 470. Dual Xeon CPU, hyperthreaded @ 3.2 GHz (2 cores, 4 threads). 5 GB DDR2 RAM. Nvidia 8800 GT, Zalman Edition graphics card. 120 GB HDD. 0T0820 Motherboard.
This thing was great in the winter. It was like a mini space heater. Now, with it being summer tempuratures, it is heating up my room very quickly, and it is getting very very hot in the tower. With this intense heat we've gotten, my computer has shut down due to thermal event when it's at max load in a game. After checking boot logs, it was CPU_0 (my first CPU) that was out of temperature range. This has only happened a couple times, and I'm not too worried.
With all that being said, I think I want to water cool the CPUs. So what I'm asking is....whats the best way to do this? and how could I do it without breaking the bank? I've heard that water cooling kits are not the best way to go. I can build the water cooler myself, however I need to know what I should get, and what blocks will fit the dual Xeon CPUs (Socket: 604 mPGA). What do I need to make this work? A couple blocks that fit the Xeons, a radiator, a water pump, and some tubing? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks