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25th September 2007, 16:40 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Swiftech H2O-120 Compact and Corsair Nautilus 500: Is Water Better? A few years ago any discussion of which was better - water or air - would inevitably end in the conclusion that water was better than even the best air coolers. In fact, many would have considered it heresy to even raise the question. We are told from many directions today that water cooling is superior, and yet there are few direct comparisons of the performance of water and current air cooling. There have been many advances in air cooling in the last few years - so much so that the best current air coolers bear almost no resemblance to yesterday's air coolers. The top air cooler of yesterday was a configuration with a small, whining, top-mounted fan with a heavy copper heatsink and no heatpipes. This is a far cry from today's best air coolers. Now the most successful of current air cooler designs feature heatpipe towers with quiet side-mounted 120mm fans blowing toward a rear exhaust. http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling...oc.aspx?i=3097
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