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hxcguitarist
01-23-2006, 03:44 PM
I have 2 questions, the first one is more important :D

1. Does water cooling really help in harddrive performance? What are some cheaper alternatives?

2. When running a water cooled system, would something like THESE (http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-rad-56.html) really help in cooling down the liquid?

Thanks!:D
hxcguitarist

AceX
01-23-2006, 04:09 PM
I can tell you from experience with cars htat the heat exchanger will work. I would use 2-3 of them in the system. They would be most useful to put inline between the CPU and GPU if you plan to liquid cool the GPU.

hxcguitarist
01-23-2006, 04:12 PM
thank you AceX! :D

Overconfidence
01-23-2006, 08:14 PM
HDD watercooling is incredibly restrictive and is more suffocating than actually cooling. Those little heat exchangers don't look very effective, either. I'd rather just put another radiator in the system (Especially for the advertised cost - you could get a pa120.3 for the price of three or four!)

hxcguitarist
01-23-2006, 09:10 PM
Ty Overconfidence! :D then would i need to get a stronger pump to push it through 2 different radiators at 2 different points?