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Reply With QuoteIts pretty obvious that water cooling is better if your overclocking. But if you don't need it don't waste money on it to make your rig look good.
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| CPU: Pentium(R) 4 1.79 (singlecore) |
| M/B: brobrably an old one |
| RAM: RAM:512MB |
| GPU: radeon 9000 pro :'( |
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Is water cooling better then Air cooling when overclocking?
well ya, is it better to use water cooling then air cooling when overclocking your CPU (or GPU, whatever they call it these days) cuz im getting a new computer( its like $3,000 and i had the choice to get water cooling) so well shude i go with the water cooling, or the air cooling instead, ( i dont want to waist money if when im overclocking i could just use air instead)
| CPU: P4 3.4Ghz 'Northy' HT |
| M/B: Asrock P4i65G (865G) |
| RAM: 1GB Kingston PC-3200 |
| GPU: Leadtek 7600GT AGP |
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Its pretty obvious that water cooling is better if your overclocking. But if you don't need it don't waste money on it to make your rig look good.
| CPU: Core 2 E2180 @ 3.2 Ghz |
| M/B: MSI P965 |
| RAM: 2x1 GB OCZ Platinum |
| GPU: X800 GTO |
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also depends on how good the pump, block and rad are, do you know what options you were offered?
You will be able to overclock pretty far on decent air, but decent water will allow you further with more volts, but it depends on whether you'd be comfortable doing this.
| CPU: Core 2 Duo E6300 |
| M/B: Gigabyte GA965P-DS3 |
| RAM: 1024 MB Corsair XMS2 @ 800 MHz |
| GPU: Sapphire X1950PRO 256 GDDR3 |
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I dont even have a water setup, but I do know that you have to keep it clean and what not(algae). But you probably are already aware of this.
| CPU: Pentium(R) 4 1.79 (singlecore) |
| M/B: brobrably an old one |
| RAM: RAM:512MB |
| GPU: radeon 9000 pro :'( |
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0_0 im still a little confused, umm well my friend said i could get water cooling installed after i buy it ( its retail witch means air cooling fan is gona be installed, and i cant ask for water cooling there, so is there a place where i can get it down
| CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 / 3.30GHz |
| M/B: ASUS P5Q-E |
| RAM: 8.00GB DDR2 1066 PC8500 |
| GPU: Powercolor Radeon HD4870 1GB GDDR5 800MHz/3,700MHz + GeForce 8600GT |
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I personally find that Fan Cooling does its job very well. Does anyone know what FX-55/57 processor temperatures would be like on a top end water-cooled rig? As I idle at 29C and full load of 41C on stock cooling.
| CPU: Core 2 E2180 @ 3.2 Ghz |
| M/B: MSI P965 |
| RAM: 2x1 GB OCZ Platinum |
| GPU: X800 GTO |
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you in the UK or US? theres a ton of online shops that sell watercooling stuff.Originally Posted by FlippyKid
anyhow, whats this $3000 PC your getting, maybe we can suggest some tweaks to your hardware before you buy it, who knows
| CPU: Core 2 E2180 @ 3.2 Ghz |
| M/B: MSI P965 |
| RAM: 2x1 GB OCZ Platinum |
| GPU: X800 GTO |
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probably get you down to 35c load with the same settings, but the real benefit is that you could add more volts through it while maintaining that temp whereas air always goes through the roof once you put on the heavy volts like 1.6v for Athlons, or on conroes 1.5v or higher.
| CPU: Pentium(R) 4 1.79 (singlecore) |
| M/B: brobrably an old one |
| RAM: RAM:512MB |
| GPU: radeon 9000 pro :'( |
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0_0 dose anyone else not get this, or is it just me
| CPU: Core 2 E2180 @ 3.2 Ghz |
| M/B: MSI P965 |
| RAM: 2x1 GB OCZ Platinum |
| GPU: X800 GTO |
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lol, you'll pick up the lingo if you keep reasearching
voltage is specific to each bit of hardware, you can actually change the voltage for your processor and memory, plus other less significan't motherboard chips in the BIOS to something higher than it's default.
For example, Intel may say that the E6600 CPU you bought should be run at 1.35V, but if you change this to 1.5V you may be able to overclock the processor much further than you could a 1.35V. The side effects? more heat will be emitted which will have to be dealt with by using better cooling, and life span of a component may be decreased slightly (12 years running like this instead of 15 at default).
generally you can always over volt a little without any harm as long as you cool the hardware well.
| CPU: Pentium(R) 4 1.79 (singlecore) |
| M/B: brobrably an old one |
| RAM: RAM:512MB |
| GPU: radeon 9000 pro :'( |
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| CPU: Core 2 E2180 @ 3.2 Ghz |
| M/B: MSI P965 |
| RAM: 2x1 GB OCZ Platinum |
| GPU: X800 GTO |
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in the UK i usually go for http://www.over-clock.co.uk/ or http://www.extremeprometeia.com/acatalog/index.html
in the US there are loads, but check out http://www.dangerden.com/news.php and maybe some of our US member can leave some more urls.
| CPU: Pentium(R) 4 1.79 (singlecore) |
| M/B: brobrably an old one |
| RAM: RAM:512MB |
| GPU: radeon 9000 pro :'( |
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i live in canada, i dont think there are alot here
im back on the poopy computer for 2 weeks ( grounded)
| CPU: intel core 2 duo 2.8ghz[over clocked =D] |
| M/B: ECS nForce 570 SLIT-A Socket 775 |
| RAM: OCZ XTC 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz (2x1024MB) |
| GPU: XFX {xxx[overclocker] series}GeForce 7950 GT 512MB PCIe w/Dual DVI |
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canada huh? then i would try http://www.xoxide.com/watcoolcas1.html
| CPU: Pentium(R) 4 1.79 (singlecore) |
| M/B: brobrably an old one |
| RAM: RAM:512MB |
| GPU: radeon 9000 pro :'( |
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ok il look there TY
im back on the poopy computer for 2 weeks ( grounded)
Combination
Is it good to have a combination of both?
My friend has both water and a massive arctic cooling fan pointing towards the whole mobo......attached to his case.
He has one of the best specs and he has overclocked them to be better and the cooling can handle it.
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