Watercooling

[Dragon]

havent i done this one already?

anyway - anybody know of a watercooling kit i can put pure h20 in and not worry aboput it being contaminated?

[StinkyMojo]

gnogtr has a pretty good one made by Swiftech. I've read some reviews and its not bad.

[Jason425]

swiftech is super leet.. or you can get a TT setup and have it spill all over the place.. :/

Yeah, I used to have the TT setup, go with Swiftech, it's awsome. If you have a little extra pocket change, you may want to jump to the Pelitzer cooling. (I think that's how it's spelled) It's basically active cooling instead of passive. While it has the standard waterblock, it also discharges heat electronicly (some nasa thing...). It looks really cool, but you've got to have a lot of space for it, including an extra PCI slot.

[Jason425]

i think it's spelt peltier. I have also heard concerns about condensation, but I bet that's fixed with today's models.. I don't see the benefit of having the chip at temps below freezing.. i'd think just cool would be better for it than freezing..
not to mention that they are power pigs..

do yourself a favor and don't use water. Get a liquid with a good heat capacity, that's not too viscous (you don't want molasses in there), and most importantly doesn't conduct electricity. you can probably dig something out of a chem book if you look (or ask a prof/teacher). Or for the lazyman, i believe there are products you can buy made specifically for liquid cooling

Vegitable oil, it's non conductive. Yeah, it's peltier, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. Also, it still gets bad condensation, which is why I still use water. If it doesn't leak, water is the best colant avaliable.

[Dragon]

it is peltier, and the trouble with it is - tons of condensation due to the way it transfer heat from one sife of the plate to the other - one side is about 70 -90 while the other is around 20 - 40, so you pretty much need water to cool it anyway.

as for the chem, pure H2O doesnt conduct elecricity at all, but where to get it.... and on top of that, anything in the tubing will ad to the water making it conduct. what a pain! actually i was looking at swiftech anybody have one with NB, CPU, VGA and dual resevoirs? if so whatd it cost? like 350?

Mine has dual fans, and it cools my processor and video card. It cost $325. I'm going to put a different resevoir in it, but the company hasn't shipped it out yet...It cools very efficiently. With my processor and video card overclocked, I can compress videos with Dr. Divx all night and keep my temps under 50C.

[Dragon]

sounds like the way to go then... but can somebody explain the use of a NB block to me before i decide to buy one?