I am looking to impliment liquid cooling into my current machine. The main reason is because whenever I try a bit of overclocking, I am never happy with the temperatures I get on the components, and the noise of the fans is really starting to bug the shit out of me.
I've built loads of machines, but never liquid cooled, therefor, am curious as the the problems I may incur (appart from some sort of monumental leek).
Are there any systems anyone has had experience with and would recomend? The only proviso I have is that it cant be too noisy, otherwise it defeats half the purpose. I'd be looking for the CPU to be cooled, moving on to water cooling the video card(s) and motherboard. My motherboard (Asus X38) came with a some sort of watercooling accesory. It specifically stated it was for watercooling so I didnt really bother with it when I was putting the machine together as it is.
For anyone interested, I am trading in my E8400 and Lian Li armoursuit PC 60 (suprising how much second hand gear is worth), so am looking for a new case and CPU. The new CPU would probably be a Q9450 and I might go with the PC80 Armoursuit (since I liked the interior of the armour and the extra space of the full tower would work out great), but that new X2000 due in august looks amazing, may hold out for that.
I have been looking at the products for a few days now, but in honestly am somewhat at a loss of what I actually need. Any help here would be much appreciated. Some kits say all included, but then go on to say, well you need X and Y aswell. So am a bit confused as to what I actually need. I think that covers everything.
I'd be open too external solutions aswell, I was told that would be much easier (quicker) especially if its the first time messing with liquid cooling.
Cheers
Martyn
I've built loads of machines, but never liquid cooled, therefor, am curious as the the problems I may incur (appart from some sort of monumental leek).
Are there any systems anyone has had experience with and would recomend? The only proviso I have is that it cant be too noisy, otherwise it defeats half the purpose. I'd be looking for the CPU to be cooled, moving on to water cooling the video card(s) and motherboard. My motherboard (Asus X38) came with a some sort of watercooling accesory. It specifically stated it was for watercooling so I didnt really bother with it when I was putting the machine together as it is.
For anyone interested, I am trading in my E8400 and Lian Li armoursuit PC 60 (suprising how much second hand gear is worth), so am looking for a new case and CPU. The new CPU would probably be a Q9450 and I might go with the PC80 Armoursuit (since I liked the interior of the armour and the extra space of the full tower would work out great), but that new X2000 due in august looks amazing, may hold out for that.
I have been looking at the products for a few days now, but in honestly am somewhat at a loss of what I actually need. Any help here would be much appreciated. Some kits say all included, but then go on to say, well you need X and Y aswell. So am a bit confused as to what I actually need. I think that covers everything.
I'd be open too external solutions aswell, I was told that would be much easier (quicker) especially if its the first time messing with liquid cooling.
Cheers
Martyn