Help me build a good loop

DrNip · #1 04-11-2009

From personal experience skip the water cooling. Water cooling is great if you have a case, play video games and pretty much just show and tell. Stick with a TRUE heatsink and a pot. Practice on the heatsink and then use the pot when you want to get extreme. Water cooling was a waste of my time and money and I went thru many of water part changes and what not. It wasn't for me. Heatsink to pot is a quick change unlike water setup to pot. Some will tell you water this and that but muh. Trust me. Don't get me wrong now, there are some sweet water setups out there that cool better than a TRUE but it is at least going to take a triple rad as my double rad didn't beet my TRUE.

Kal-EL · #2 04-11-2009

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Originally Posted by DrNip

From personal experience skip the water cooling. Water cooling is great if you have a case, play video games and pretty much just show and tell. Stick with a TRUE heatsink and a pot. Practice on the heatsink and then use the pot when you want to get extreme. Water cooling was a waste of my time and money and I went thru many of water part changes and what not. It wasn't for me. Heatsink to pot is a quick change unlike water setup to pot. Some will tell you water this and that but muh. Trust me. Don't get me wrong now, there are some sweet water setups out there that cool better than a TRUE but it is at least going to take a triple rad as my double rad didn't beet my TRUE.

I'd have to agree with nip. Especially with the performance of today's air h/s coolers, water on the cpu doesn't seem to be all that cracked up.

Water on the gpu's however is another story. Go ahead and find waterblocks for ur gpus, most perform on par with each other and availability varies from card to card. Still, most cards have a certain amount of headroom for overclocking on air. The principals still apply regarding level of overclock vs heat output. So if you master air overclocking, extreme cold is pretty much just a major leap down the scale of temps management.

Jeffro64 · #3 04-11-2009

Hmmm..... well, this is mostly gonna be just for the experience and the fun just playing around. Whatever water setup I get and use will end up in my 24/7 everyday use rig most likely which is in a case.... so it's a win win for me I guess you could say. It will be an expensive part of the hobby but it will be fun for sure.... more of a want for the hell of it than a need you could say LOL.

I do want a big or multi rad setup though.