Finally got my water cooling system installed

[Tikker]

and so far, I can't tell the difference at all


I haven't gone all out on it yet, cause I'm still not 100% sure I did it right, but we'll see later

idle temps are pretty must identical to what they were before and my vid card hasn't gone kablooey yet

[Tikker]

24 hours later, and 1 extra case fan, and things are going pretty well

peak temps have dropped from 45c down to 40c when encoding multiple movies

I haven't yet put the vid card cooler to the test, because that's what I'm the most worried about, but idle card temps are 48ish celcius, well under the average temps most report for this card(6600gt)

I was nervous as hell putting this water in, but now that I've done it, I bet I could do another one from box open to done in under 45 mins, and feel reasonably comfortable doing it

[vonkaar]

What are the components in your system?

Idle temps aren't likely going to change... it's the ability to push... the headroom that you gain by using a superior cooling system. A stock cooling system that can only handle so much heah will only allow so much of an overclock. A properly configured water-cooled system should allow more headroom - higher overclock potential. Or, if silence is your goal - a quieter cooling system. You can get by with MUCH lower RPMs on a radiator than you could on a heatsink.

Never understood why people are so nervous about it...

[Tikker]

I can see why people are nervous cause in my first test run I sprung 2 leaks



yay for good testing procedures on my part tho!

and silence is more my goal than temps (my heatsink/fans did a pretty good job cooling anyways)



component-wise I've got an older machine

asus P4T-E mobo
p4 2.4ghz OC'd to 2.9ghz
XFX geForce 6600gt
1gb of pc800 rambus
60 gb 7200 hdd
120 gb 5400 hdd
etc, etc

[Drem]

that's funny... your older machine is twice as good as mine

[Tikker]

it was a cream of the crop pc 5 years ago when I bought it