Custom Watercooling: Gamer's Rig
A radiator doesn’t have to be expensive, you can find it in garages with car-parts, or you can buy one for almost nothing from a friend
A radiator doesn’t have to be expensive, you can find it in garages with car-parts, or you can buy one for almost nothing from a friend
With air-cooling (alpha PAL 8045T & PAPST NGM, together with 4 casefans), I could overclock my XP 2000+ to a nice 1,84 ghz. Stressed temps were 47° Celcius max, with a vCore of 2,1 Volt. That was decent enough, but it could better than that.
Now I get 1900 mhz stressed with my RC5 client, with a temp of 40° Celcius max on 2.05 Volt vCore.
An improvement of 60 Mhz.. Not bad :
The highest stable overclock I reached here, was 1942 mhz, but it was really
freezing in here at that moment :-)
Conclusion:
If you´re a real overclocker, or if you really need a silent machine, I would
certainly advise watercooling. The only noise you hear are the fans on your
radiator :-)
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