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septimus 10th September 2002 17:06

Popularity of water cooling skyrocketing?
 
Well, it seems everyone I know is getting water cooling! I notice many forum members in various hardware websites are taking the leap into water cooling.

I guess, the allure of water cooling is its efficiency at low noise levels. And the potential to cool TEC/peltier elements.

I personally got water cooling for overclocking purposes and silent operation.

Is it just me, or is water cooling on the rise?

Bosw8er 10th September 2002 17:16

I would say the modding + OC'ing community + everything PC related is on the rise ... in combination with a strong development of a "community feeling".
Watercooling has also been made very easy, fail-proof en fairly cheap. For only 250-300 EUR you can get a very good and complete Innovatek kit for example. For a few $ more you buy that Swiftech pelt/waterblock ... all very easy to install en very effective.

Da`Hitch 10th September 2002 18:08

well, I'm also kinda thinking of switching my loud aircooled system for a watercooled set, but a few problems arise:
1) I can't "make" one myself, I'm too stupid for that :grum:
2) the watercooling should be completely built into my case, so that I don't have to take care of some reservoir lying around, and it should also be safe to move around (to LAN-party's and stuff)
and buying a complete case like the one JMke reviewed a while a go is also not really an option, because: It's ugly, no offence but that's what I think of it. en it's also quite expensive... 500€ isn't exaclty cheap :(

septimus 10th September 2002 18:31

Its true, parts for a water cooling sys can be expensive... but if you are in europe, there are some german retailers that have amazing prices on great hardware. I dig up some links :)

Anyhow, if you are absolutely, positively serious about getting water cooling try to save money by getting good water blocks second hand and then do not spare any expense when it comes to your connections, tubing, and reservoir. It really cant count on two hands the number of times I've torn my WC system out of my case when the reservoir or some other thing started to leak.

Oh, and make sure your radiator is clean, or new. Some old rads from cars and other things are full of crap sometimes.

DUR0N 19th September 2002 20:19

Quote:

Originally posted by D@ Hitch
well, I'm also kinda thinking of switching my loud aircooled system for a watercooled set, but a few problems arise:
1) I can't "make" one myself, I'm too stupid for that :grum:
2) the watercooling should be completely built into my case, so that I don't have to take care of some reservoir lying around, and it should also be safe to move around (to LAN-party's and stuff)
and buying a complete case like the one JMke reviewed a while a go is also not really an option, because: It's ugly, no offence but that's what I think of it. en it's also quite expensive... 500€ isn't exaclty cheap :(

we (colorcase) deliver neonlights with a poseidon watercooling kit installed in it :p

piotke 29th October 2002 18:05

I also noticed the more interest. I also would like to change to H2O or a second handed vapo/prometheia. that would cost me the same, but then I have no possibility to cool my GPU.

It's hard to choose. What woud YOU do?


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