how to water cool?

@Omega:
I must agree on everything there, but it's always a question of perspectives:

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Well keep in mind -- if you spend less than 100$ or so on a WCing setup, it'll have mediocre performance, and that's not good =/

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Just able to say : Hey I'm watercooled

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It isn't always big bucks to silence your setup and not always big bucks to OC it too. I've OC'd my AMD Athlon 64 3200+ S754 Newcastle core from 2.2GHz (220*11) to 2.6GHz (236*11) on air, not to mention I have way too much THC on my CPU. The heat increase was minute, only 1 degree C all around (under load and idle). I think the heat increase might have affected the GPU as well, but even less so.

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What's silence? Depend on everyone needs. I'm an editor, and I also like mixing music, so for me silence mean silence: no HDD (Thats my big problem, too much of them, 6 on my main rig, 4 on my second one, and 2 on the little one I leave to my roomates.) So I need a complete insonorisation of them.
It's true that you can have a decent or even a great OC with air cooling, I run my main rig (Northwood 2.6) at 3.4 on air without problems, wich is not bad at all, but still need more... Run a bit hot when it comes to convert a long movie.

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Ionized Air Cooling

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I wanna know too :)

Sorry if I write craps these days, have not sleep for tree days, 3 job at the same time, all from home, so I'm still posting...

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Originally Posted by SnowFire

Thanks! :)

I bet those copper tubes would act like miniature radiators if you had fans blowing on them?

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dude, i wonder if there were heat sinks all along the piping like ridges or spines. And fans would destroy the purpose of water cooling

and thnx for the comprehensive info

That, sounds like a pretty good idea to me actually. You could have some thick copper or aluminum tubing and then have it milled down or however you would do that so you have fins coming off of your pipes. OR you could use all copper tubing, then have aluminum machined to fit around the copper tubing. Slap some ?Arctic Silver? on and slide the aluminum over your copper tubing?

Kind of like THIS, but not so extreme and not as an external radiator. More compact, less extreme, and as your tubing. That might solve the need for a radiator?? I wonder if this idea is plausable?

-SnowFire

What you're talking about sounds like heatpipes with fins. In theory it works, but having moving air works better. Just like a radiator.

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Originally Posted by SnowFire

That, sounds like a pretty good idea to me actually. You could have some thick copper or aluminum tubing and then have it milled down or however you would do that so you have fins coming off of your pipes. OR you could use all copper tubing, then have aluminum machined to fit around the copper tubing. Slap some ?Arctic Silver? on and slide the aluminum over your copper tubing?

Kind of like THIS, but not so extreme and not as an external radiator. More compact, less extreme, and as your tubing. That might solve the need for a radiator?? I wonder if this idea is plausable?

-SnowFire

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dude that would be tight for a media center pc, silence and a cool looking blue object in your living room

http://www.freewebs.com/dgaultiere/Project412M012.htm

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Originally Posted by SnowFire

What is "Ionized Air Cooling"? I've heard of the Ionic Breeze... is that the same thing? What is it? What does it do, or rather what would it do for a person like one of us?

-SnowFire

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linky

hope it's usefull

That is pretty damn cool.

I got a Zalman reserator 2.

Silent water cooling at its best

http://www.zalman.co.kr/

I highly recommend it.

Here is the worklog detailing the instal

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...2&postcount=54

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...4&postcount=55

Haha, I hate you. That was, or rather still is, the setup I want. It's just so dang much! I was hoping for some extra cash from x-mas, but no such luck this year for some reason.

btw, you have the same mouse and keyboard as my dad. lol