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| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 402848 | 2005-11-09 06:08:00 | One of my friends used to use water cooling, but he went back to air cooling because maintaining the water cooling was too annoying. He kept getting air bubbles in the pipes. | Greven (91) | ||
| 402849 | 2005-11-09 06:40:00 | I used to use water cooling but i kept sucking up the water.....Oh, we're talking about computers :D | lazydog (148) | ||
| 402850 | 2005-11-09 07:08:00 | Why do you want to use a water cooling setup? It's not neccessary if you're not a hard core over-clocker or benchmarker. Despite the high quality of water kits today the only thing I will say is this... Water and Electicity DO NOT play well together!!! I was just looking at different cooling possibilities but it seems the best is still plain old fans :D Thats true i am going to OC my new comp but not to the point where i need water cooling i doubt and the risk of leakage is too high. You couldn't be more right about that :p |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 402851 | 2005-11-09 08:50:00 | By the time you've spent that money on watercooling gear you could've just bought yourself a faster CPU. It's good for a while though, it's interesting to set up and you can overclock further. It can get annoying later on with the high maintenance, and even worse if there is a leak. If you want a system that just works day to day without much effort then watercooling isn't really what you want. |
vapo (5203) | ||
| 402852 | 2005-11-09 11:41:00 | I'm guessing that it'll be quieter as well. A bigger CPU is gonna mean a bigger fan (probably), if you're looking for quiet it'll work. Then again, loud music works just fine to fix that problem. | DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 402853 | 2005-11-09 19:43:00 | Water cooling isn't that much quieter - you just move the huge fan from the CPU to the radiator. | Greven (91) | ||
| 402854 | 2005-11-10 01:19:00 | Does anybody know the name of the electronic devices that generate cool............er......or rather remove heat? :waughh: I saw them online once and forgot to bookmark the site...but they run on electricity, mount on the chips and cool them like a refrigerator. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 402855 | 2005-11-10 01:23:00 | IBM used water cooling on some mainframes because they had to . There was so much heat to get out of some of their modules that air couldn't do it . It was very expensive . Cray used Freon cooling on some of their supers . It was very expensive . Some radio transmitters use water cooling, to get rid of kilowatts . The more advanced installations boil the water, because that removes much more heat . Air is cheapest and if it leaks nothing gets damaged . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 402856 | 2005-11-10 04:23:00 | Does anybody know the name of the electronic devices that generate cool . . . . . . . . . . . . er . . . . . . or rather remove heat? :waughh: I saw them online once and forgot to bookmark the site . . . but they run on electricity, mount on the chips and cool them like a refrigerator . I know what you are talking about, but I'll be buggered if I can spell it . It uses phase change cooling right? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 402857 | 2005-11-10 06:18:00 | IBM used water cooling on some mainframes because they had to . There was so much heat to get out of some of their modules that air couldn't do it . It was very expensive . Cray used Freon cooling on some of their supers . It was very expensive . Some radio transmitters use water cooling, to get rid of kilowatts . The more advanced installations boil the water, because that removes much more heat . Air is cheapest and if it leaks nothing gets damaged . I saw a Cray once and it was cooled by liquid nitrogen . . a lot cooler that freon by far at -195 . 79 °C, -320 . 42 °F . The US Navy was leasing the unit from Cray as they could not afford to buy it! Imagine that! The "tower" was the size of a hassock in a hotel lobby . . round and about 5 foot tall . . . even looked like a hassock too . The circular boards were placed in positions to minimize the length of hard wires to and from the various components . The whole tower was kept cold as possible to get closer to 0 Kelvin . . still a long way off from that . . . but the idea is that the colder the chips, the faster they worked . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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