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watercooling
- Thread starter Mr Snub
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I agree. Buy the water block, this way is faster and easier. Do a little search online. See what you like. Radiator you can buy from one of those online stores like Castetc, DangerDan etc or you can simply go to the auto shop stores and ask around. Tubing you can get from Home Depot. If you do it yourself, It’ll be cheaper and much more rewarding. Good luck and have fun with it.
res0r9lm said:
I've had mine for almost a year now without a problem. This computer runs everyday all day, I just turn it off at night then back on the next morning. So far running strong without any problems, and this pump is very quiet, therefore i have no complaints. I dont know much about the ehiem pump execpt its more the the mag. The mag was a good pump for the price so i bought it.
Newguy
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What cools best ,putting the radiator before or after the water block ?
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I recommend getting silicon tubing from dangerden. The vinyl tubing bends too easy. Not worth the price IMHO.
how about some temps. what vcore are you running?ProPatria said:I got a Koolance and it works great, cpu 1400@1666mhz. With air cooling it wouldnt go over 1507mhz, same thing with my gf3 card w/o koolance the gf3 card was running at 225mhz now the gpu is running at 250mhz
/ProPatria
celsius is what everbody should be using anyway according to post guidelines. those are darn good temps if it's uderload add a little bit of vcore to that and you might get to 1700+. I get 40c @ 1668 w/ vcore 1.97 but plan on going watercooling in the near future. haven't had the time or money been build more systems for folding instead of focusing on one. atleast now I know what temps tp expect.ProPatria said:it says 31c (since i live in sweden we dont use F) but its 89f on the cpu water blockand i have it at 1.85/3.80, havent tried to push the cpu any higher then 1666mhz.
/ProPatria
before i had the koolance i used a taisol with a 60mm fan on (dunno if you call it mm in America ?) then my cpu temp was up over 50c idle and like 55c full load. And now i get around 28c idle and 32c full load, with the fans running at half speed (koolance call it "mode 2")
Im really happy with the koolance case, my buddy got a vapochill and thoes are away more expencive, and he runs his 1400@1700 at like -10c, but it wount do any more then that, and even if mine wount go any higher then 1666mhz im still happy cause they koolance cost around $299 here in Sweden, and a vapochill costs $650 and the extra money just isnt worth 34mhz
Only thing bad i have to say about the koolance is the look, they could have ade a cooler looking case www.koolance.com
/ProPatria
Im really happy with the koolance case, my buddy got a vapochill and thoes are away more expencive, and he runs his 1400@1700 at like -10c, but it wount do any more then that, and even if mine wount go any higher then 1666mhz im still happy cause they koolance cost around $299 here in Sweden, and a vapochill costs $650 and the extra money just isnt worth 34mhz
Only thing bad i have to say about the koolance is the look, they could have ade a cooler looking case
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uhhh everythingmentioned i will comment
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well guys i have heard that with the raidiator after the block is better, they say it lessen the heat lvl minimally. uhh i would also suggest building your own system. it is much cheaper. also a raidaitor runs about 28 dollars where i live thats at advanced auto parts just ask for a transmisson cooler. it will fit 2 120mm fans almost perfectly. if you dont want to machine a block ive heard of people sealing there heatsink in plexi glass or whatever and running whater over it (i thin that its riskier than just a block).if you go and build your own cooling system run it for 2 days in the tub to check for leeks (rmember to clog the drain or else you wont know if it leeks at night or something).i am experimenting right now myself.
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well guys i have heard that with the raidiator after the block is better, they say it lessen the heat lvl minimally. uhh i would also suggest building your own system. it is much cheaper. also a raidaitor runs about 28 dollars where i live thats at advanced auto parts just ask for a transmisson cooler. it will fit 2 120mm fans almost perfectly. if you dont want to machine a block ive heard of people sealing there heatsink in plexi glass or whatever and running whater over it (i thin that its riskier than just a block).if you go and build your own cooling system run it for 2 days in the tub to check for leeks (rmember to clog the drain or else you wont know if it leeks at night or something).i am experimenting right now myself.
*lol* "its much chreaper" uhmm.. i dunno what kind of components you would get for a price cheaper then $299, but i for one would not want them Before i bought my koolance i looked at price/preformance and i found that koolance was both cheaper and preformed better then any home made watercooling system, that is if you dont have a peltier on it.
About the raidiator use common sense, fans blow on the raidiator that the water runs thru and there is where it gets cool, then it hits the cpu block getting warm then back to the water tank mix with the water ther and go to the raidiator again. Now if you place the raidiator after the cpu the water will get cooler after it have been in the block over the cpu, go in to the tank mix with water that have been standing still for a little while and then to the cpu again, it will lose some of its cold doing that, now just so you know what i mean, its less then 0.5c it will lose on doing that, but it will show up if you just a digi temp.
/ProPatria
Before i bought my koolance i looked at price/preformance and i found that koolance was both cheaper and preformed better then any home made watercooling system, that is if you dont have a peltier on it.About the raidiator use common sense, fans blow on the raidiator that the water runs thru and there is where it gets cool, then it hits the cpu block getting warm then back to the water tank mix with the water ther and go to the raidiator again. Now if you place the raidiator after the cpu the water will get cooler after it have been in the block over the cpu, go in to the tank mix with water that have been standing still for a little while and then to the cpu again, it will lose some of its cold doing that, now just so you know what i mean, its less then 0.5c it will lose on doing that, but it will show up if you just a digi temp.
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hey that would all depend on the size of your resovior and if your resovior was cooled or not min is in a refridgerator like one with food and pop in it. plus what if you didnt run a resovior and depended purely on a raidator. a constant loop. then again the room tempurtature can change a lot. the chemicls in the water. is it tap or well water, maybe even perrier. there are two many variables to the situation that it would depend more on them than its position.
hey that would all depend on the size of your resovior and if your resovior was cooled or not min is in a refridgerator like one with food and pop in it. plus what if you didnt run a resovior and depended purely on a raidator. a constant loop. then again the room tempurtature can change a lot. the chemicls in the water. is it tap or well water, maybe even perrier. there are two many variables to the situation that it would depend more on them than its position.
