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In Topic: TriRyan or anyone else. Liquid Cooling.....

07 March 2012 - 05:39 PM

The radiators are basely smaller version of car radiators or car heater cores. Most are copper, some are aluminum.  The bucket may work if it is large enough to disperse all of the heat the computer generates .I think you will need a pretty big bucket. You will also have to keep a eye on the water level because of evaporation. .

In Topic: TriRyan or anyone else. Liquid Cooling.....

07 March 2012 - 01:19 PM

I have fan controllers on all my fans. There all set to high,that because I am folding at 100% CPU usage pretty much 24/7. [ Life got in the way, that is why I am not folding now,will be back next week ] I mounted the rad to the back of the computer case and my CPU temperature are running in the low 60c. I think I am going to put the rad back in the window. I still think 60c is not to bad when you consider I am folding at 100% with a overclock of 3712 Mhz.. Do not need a heater for that bedroom. :grin2:  
In the summer I do lower the overclock to 3200MHz to keep my CPU temperature in the low 60C range. Even running the fans on the high setting my fans are not to loud. I am running Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850 fans. The loudest fans are the video card fans. The GPU's are running around 80% usage when folding, so the fans are cranked up pretty good.

  Going to get the paper towels now to clean up the red mess. :wink:

In Topic: TriRyan or anyone else. Liquid Cooling.....

07 March 2012 - 11:28 AM

I use the BIOS to overclock my CPU, always done it that way. I read that the motherboard company are doing a better job of software overclocking for the Sandy Bridge processor.

I do not know what water cooler he is using,but most have some kind of speed control for the fan. Unless you are overclocking and folding like I am  I would just leave it on the lowest setting even if it runs a little warmer and enjoy the silent .

Core Temp does not use a lot of resources to run. Here is a picture of Core Temp running on my Laptop.

In Topic: TriRyan or anyone else. Liquid Cooling.....

07 March 2012 - 07:53 AM

The advantage to water cooling on a computer like yours is noise. That is why some people use water cooling on there HTPC computers. The last thing you want to hear when you are watching a movie or playing a game are the fans trying to cool your computer. It might not be to bad now,but when it gets hotter it might be a different story.

If you ever decide to hook up the water cooling again try these steps.
Hook the rad fan as a intake instead of a exhaust fan. That how Corsair recommends you do it.
Also you can hook up two fans to the rad. One push,One pull.

I use [Core Temp ] to check my temperature on my old  AMD 4400+ computer. Some of the older Intel chips also have problems reading the CPU temperature right too. My Core2 quad never read the right temperature from the first day I started running it.  
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In Topic: TriRyan or anyone else. Liquid Cooling.....

26 February 2012 - 05:29 PM

What water cooler are you using? Also what part did they have to add? Can you take some pictures of the part that broke?

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