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hello everybody
i'm sick and tired of my pc freezen everytime i play battlefield 2 for more than 1 hour, after donating 50 bucks to the red cross, i have some money to buy a watercoling kit, need for my cpu and video card, somebody can piont me to the right direccion. wich kit is more afordable? what brand? i check on the on the watercooling thread buy there are so many. i don't know what to choose.
egroj
Your PC freezing up is probably not a cpu or gpu cooling problem. Random constant shutdowns would be, but it sounds like you are running out of ram or your cpu is not fast enough to handle the game, but in either case:
If you want a full kit, Thermaltake has a Bigwater kit that I have seen used in multiple compys that seems to work well and is affordable.
If you want to build your own, well, thats a different story, but you could use danger den components, a little more on the expensive side, but depending on what you get, it will be more efficient I'm sure.
yes the pc shutdown many times, freezes and then shutdown, thank for the info on the kit.
here a dxdiag from my machine
System Information
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Time of this report: 9/8/2005, 17:17:57
Machine name: NONAME
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System Model: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
BIOS: Rev 2.00
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 1278MB RAM
Page File: 506MB used, 1902MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
Display Devices
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Card name: RADEON 9800 PRO
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: RADEON 9800 PRO AGP (0x4E48)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4E48&SUBSYS_10021002&REV_00
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Default Monitor
Monitor Max Res:
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6546 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 5/3/2005 19:28:54, 226816 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
Mini VDD Date: 5/3/2005 19:28:34, 1133056 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-0D08-11CF-206A-0830A1C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x4E48
SubSys ID: 0x10021002
Revision ID: 0x0000
Revision ID: 0x0000
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
and the list is long
thank you so much for your help.
im going to do a research about the one you told me.
egroj
Well my two idead for problems definitley don't work. You have plenty of RAM and plenty of processing power with that CPU, so hmmm... Here's some links for different manufacturer's watercooling kits that I have heard great things about:
Thermaltake's Bigwater Kit
Heard great things about this one.
Zalman's Reserator Kit
Read numerous reviews apraising this kit.
Cooler Master's Aquagate Mini
I haven't heard a lot about this one, but I have seen a few reviews saying it was alright.
Nexus thank you for your help, i will do a research on those too.
I think this weekend I'm going to come with a answer.
egroj
No problem.. any time.
Might be a spyware problem, download and run Adaware to find out, I wouldn't Microsoft's "anti"-spyware. Watercooling sounds fun, I'm actually looking into it myself, thanks for the awesome links ; )
I have a question about watercooling though. If I was going to buy a set piece by piece, what would I need. I figured a pump, a radiator, tubes, and those plate things that replace the heatsink, is that all you need?
Also, for the blocks on heatsinks, some have 3 places to put tubes, how does that work?
they're called waterblocks, and I think one is removing the air/ filling the loop.
some waterblocks work with a flow of water going in and one out, other blocks have a central intake and two outs, for more efficient cooling. but this implies you need to use a Y to connect the tubes back after the flow was separated...
Before you go out and spend your life savings on a water cooling kit, record your temperatures while playing. I forget the name of the program, but it records your GPU and CPU temperatures to a log file. I have a 3200+ with 1gig ram and a 6600GT and my temps rarely exceed 45-50*C for the CPU