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i use coolant... car coolant. lol. best temps i would be getting during summer would be from today so ill see how good it runs when theres a great delta temperature, and airflow coming from outside over the radiator.

ah cool mate, sorry I misinterpreted what you said .... Thermaltake cases/PSUs ftw :happy:

I haven't used their water cooling products, but find their heatsinks/fan setups to be very good. I never got into water cooling, always found the idea of water running through my PC way too scary!

yeah you dont have to run water in them as mentioned earlier alchahol/mix has no freezing point and chills more than water

well if u really think about it all u need is demineralised water and something to stop stuff growing in it. Your room would never hit 0 deg celcius to even freeze normal water :happy:

edit/ and as long as it wont react with any metals used in the loop

Edited by Bl4cK32

SAZilla,

What vid card and hows it clock with water vs std air? :laugh:

I've never bothered with water cooling but always wanted to have a play one day..

My overclocking adventures in the last ~12yrs have never seen a failure, I put this down to never using water, even when using a decent hsf heat becomes an issue before volts so your never really able to run enough volts to kill a chip.

im running a 7950GX2 video card, the "sandwhich" card. it is 2 7950 cores x2 on 2 PCBs which are sandwhiched together with 4 tall pins on 4 corners of the boards and a small PCIe interface in the middle of the card that links the two together. I cannot water cool it if i cant fit waterblocks inside the middle of the card and i dont overclock that card at all anyway cause im looking at selling it. the only waterblock at the moment i have is on the CPU cause im kinda trialling thermaltakes product.. the rocket.

last night it was at 33 degrees idle, and 40 degrees load, this is acceptable cause 22 degrees and then like 14 degrees at night is a normal winter/autumn/spring kinda weather on average and i can deal with that... but when the room abience is 30 degrees the idle temp is 48! the load temp 56! the cpus rating is only 60 degrees so its kinda dangerous. I should have gone with a radiator with a fan but i wanted to have no sound but the GFX cards fans. mind you.. my graphics cards idle temp is par 50 and load is 62. my computer runs very hot with these parts inside. last night was the first night in summer that every temparature stayed below 41 degrees and the HDD temps were 23 and 23 a piece (2 SATA2 HDDs 320gb)

performance can be much greater if you select the right equipment, and if u clean everything and install everything properly you will have no issues whatsoever with water cooling and there is no possibilty that anything will go wrong if it is maintained corectly.

Edited by SAZilla

im thinking now about how to utilise a car radiator for my system and a custom pump. i want to mount the radiator outside the house and thru my window run the pipes into the computer and have this driven by a better 12 volt pump thats alot stronger. my mate who has a sil80 said why dont u just intercool the f**ker and i said im not crazy. this is kinda a hobby for me until my case becomes a fish tank.

im thinking now about how to utilise a car radiator for my system and a custom pump. i want to mount the radiator outside the house and thru my window run the pipes into the computer and have this driven by a better 12 volt pump thats alot stronger. my mate who has a sil80 said why dont u just intercool the f**ker and i said im not crazy. this is kinda a hobby for me until my case becomes a fish tank.

I toyed with the idea of using an old car heater core (head down to U-steal it wreckers and pick one up cheap).

lol at the car rad idea.. Massive. Keep the shroud attach an old solid radiator fan to an old washing machine motor and your set. :laugh:

it would be easy to set up one from pool just need some long ass plastic tubing and the 12v pump would be enough. ill try it from a bucket tonight and see what happens, at least there is no chance of the lines bursting or caps falling off cause there is no pressure build up

Edited by SAZilla
im thinking now about how to utilise a car radiator for my system and a custom pump. i want to mount the radiator outside the house and thru my window run the pipes into the computer and have this driven by a better 12 volt pump thats alot stronger. my mate who has a sil80 said why dont u just intercool the f**ker and i said im not crazy. this is kinda a hobby for me until my case becomes a fish tank.

I was planning to use an old heater core I had lying around. A good resource is overclockers.com with a list of didferent car models, dimensions and inlet & outlet diametres. The articles a bit old but you get the idea

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1031/

I've seen other kits with a 40L plastic bin next to the PC with 2 hoses in it. Worked quite well.

Edited by L3nny

yeh take it... probably just needs some caps changed lol and a new fan.

i just completed the test... the results are clear. i went from 44 degrees idle to now 33 degrees idle after 2 hours of comp being on. my setup is the thermaltake rocket water cooler radiator sitting in a bucket full of water (like an internal resovoir of some sort), then a tube going in the radiator and then from the radiator into the bucket then the bucket into the CPU block lol. lmao i should get some pics up wait on lol. :(

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