From looking at the comments here:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=624285
The response seems to be 'Meh'. High end air cooling can do the same for cheaper, water really comes into its own because you can have such a large surface area cooling the water with a 2x120 or 3x120 radiator, with a radiator that just offers a single 120mm fan, that's not much more surface area than a high end heatsink.
Matt
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Alcibiades Sent: 12 June 2011 12:07 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Could you build a water cooled PC?
I have wondered about this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CWCH50-1-Water-Cooler/dp/B002QG2H7K
which seems to get rave reviews. But when it came to it recently, putting together some new systems for us at home, I just got silverstone sff cases, i3 processors, extra large fans, and slowed them down with those little resistor packs you can get from silentpc.
Not silent, but quiet enough, and absolutely no problem with heat.
I do still wonder from time to time about the corsair....
Peter
On Saturday 11 June 2011 17:06:32 Chris G wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:00:31PM +0100, James Bensley wrote:
On 10 June 2011 15:39, Matthew Green matthew.j.green@ntlworld.com
wrote:
If you're looking to build something to help overclocking the inexpensive kits are generally worse than high end air-cooling.
I agree...
The watercooling kit should be open
not closed / sealed unit because it should allow me to put the distilled water.
Unless I have miss-understand, this is a bad idea. In the event of a leak you want to be using non-conductive coolant liquid. $friend had water cooling, it sprung a leak 'thankfully' over only one part, one of this graphics cards, which after being drained and dried still worked.
Distilled water *is* virtually non-conductive. It's only the salts and impurities in tap water (and/or river water etc.) that make it moderately conductive.
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