Understanding & Mastering Water Cooling

Dashken · 2nd Jan 2007, 02:41 AM

Ever wondered about water cooling your PC? Well, wonder no more. AlmostThere will show you everything you need to know about water cooling.

Link : Understanding & Mastering Water Cooling

sbrehm72255 · 2nd Jan 2007, 11:10 PM

Not to bad of a article, but you can really tell that someone is totally against lowflow pre-made kits. But everyone is entitled to their opinions I guess.

Adrian Wong · 2nd Jan 2007, 11:37 PM

Well, the reason is if the water cooling kit cannot perform better than an air cooler, it would be cheaper and better to just use an air cooler instead.

Chai · 3rd Jan 2007, 12:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sbrehm72255

Not to bad of a article, but you can really tell that someone is totally against lowflow pre-made kits. But everyone is entitled to their opinions I guess.

I don't really get what you meant?

sbrehm72255 · 3rd Jan 2007, 12:16 AM

There are numorous kits out there that perform tons better than air, even Thermaltake and Cooler Master as the article referd to. Even the little AquaGate Minis perform slightly better than air coolers at a lower noise point and provide a larger buffer for OC'ing, I've used them in the past, I've run just about all of them through my systems from the Big Water through the Cooler Masters to Alphacool to Swiftech at one time or another and they all have their place depending on what type of system you're running. My son still is running a TT Big Water in his old Athlon XP rig and is still getting better performance out of it than when I had the TT Big Typhoon in the rig.
You just have to plan and install it to take advantage of proper air flow and case cooling.

sbrehm72255 · 3rd Jan 2007, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chai

I don't really get what you meant?

The article just seems to be putti ng down certain types of kits and IMO shouldn't be, they have their place in the world. They may not perform as well as something that I put together myself, but they do the job for what they were intended. ............

Chai · 3rd Jan 2007, 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sbrehm72255

The article just seems to be putti ng down certain types of kits and IMO shouldn't be, they have their place in the world. They may not perform as well as something that I put together myself, but they do the job for what they were intended. ............

I don't think they can outperform high end air coolers like Thermalright's and some of the tower heatpipe coolers.

sbrehm72255 · 3rd Jan 2007, 12:38 AM

Some of the kits that I reviewed for System Cooling before they shut down, performed much better than air cooling. Not all will, but there are a lot of Eurouean low flow kits that will smoke any air cooler, plain and simple.
On the other hand, there are air coolers out there, when combined with the right fan, will out perform a lot of poorly put together high flow water rigs, I see it all the time.

So basicly what I'm getting at is, do not rule out any product JUST because it comes as a kit.
Remember that Swiftechs TOP performing parts are also in the form of a KIT and a Pre-installed system in a case...........

SAMSAMHA · 3rd Jan 2007, 01:19 AM

nice stuff about WC. Though I am still scared of messing up my system with WC.

sbrehm72255 · 3rd Jan 2007, 01:27 AM

There's always going to be some risk when using a water cooling system, but when used with qualitly components and installed correctly with the proper precautions, you can greatly cut down the risks, but there will always be some. As with anything man-made product, nothing is error free and you will have something fail. The trick is to try and catch the faulty parts before powering up your system.........

I've been lucky I guess.

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2nd Jan 2007, 11:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
sbrehm72255 Warming up Join Date: 6 Dec 2006 Posts: 90 Reputation: 99 Rep Power: 0	Not to bad of a article, but you can really tell that someone is totally against lowflow pre-made kits. But everyone is entitled to their opinions I guess.

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sbrehm72255 Warming up Join Date: 6 Dec 2006 Posts: 90 Reputation: 99 Rep Power: 0	There are numorous kits out there that perform tons better than air, even Thermaltake and Cooler Master as the article referd to. Even the little AquaGate Minis perform slightly better than air coolers at a lower noise point and provide a larger buffer for OC'ing, I've used them in the past, I've run just about all of them through my systems from the Big Water through the Cooler Masters to Alphacool to Swiftech at one time or another and they all have their place depending on what type of system you're running. My son still is running a TT Big Water in his old Athlon XP rig and is still getting better performance out of it than when I had the TT Big Typhoon in the rig. You just have to plan and install it to take advantage of proper air flow and case cooling.

3rd Jan 2007, 12:38 AM	#8 (permalink)
sbrehm72255 Warming up Join Date: 6 Dec 2006 Posts: 90 Reputation: 99 Rep Power: 0	Some of the kits that I reviewed for System Cooling before they shut down, performed much better than air cooling. Not all will, but there are a lot of Eurouean low flow kits that will smoke any air cooler, plain and simple. On the other hand, there are air coolers out there, when combined with the right fan, will out perform a lot of poorly put together high flow water rigs, I see it all the time. So basicly what I'm getting at is, do not rule out any product JUST because it comes as a kit. Remember that Swiftechs TOP performing parts are also in the form of a KIT and a Pre-installed system in a case...........

3rd Jan 2007, 01:19 AM	#9 (permalink)
SAMSAMHA Super Active Join Date: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 2,356 Reputation: 197 Rep Power: 7	nice stuff about WC. Though I am still scared of messing up my system with WC.

3rd Jan 2007, 01:27 AM	#10 (permalink)
sbrehm72255 Warming up Join Date: 6 Dec 2006 Posts: 90 Reputation: 99 Rep Power: 0	There's always going to be some risk when using a water cooling system, but when used with qualitly components and installed correctly with the proper precautions, you can greatly cut down the risks, but there will always be some. As with anything man-made product, nothing is error free and you will have something fail. The trick is to try and catch the faulty parts before powering up your system......... I've been lucky I guess.