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What do you have?
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 5:38 am
by Silent Fox
Just interested in what kind of cooling you have. I am looking into either swiftech's kits or Corsair Nautilus 500.
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:51 am
by Zelig
Air cooling on all my rigs, the only reason I'd want to try water cooling would be for less noise.
Actually, I've got a passively cooled rig, the only fan is in the PSU, I didn't think it would be too safe to remove that one.
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 8:08 am
by pointreyes
Air cooling and I would prefer having all the computers in their own air conditioned room. I hate noise which futher makes me hate water cooling. The noise of the fans on the Koolance system I built a few years ago was much louder than I expected and I was even using a Lian-Li with the sound deafening material in it. Maintenance of that system was actually higher than the maintenance on my still owned and quieter air-cooled dual Xeon system.
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:16 am
by bubba
stock cooling
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:45 am
by kenc51
H2O
~30C running 2x folding @ home and no noise.........
can go lower if needed ;)
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 12:56 pm
by DMB2000uk
You should do another poll, "are you happy with what your cooling"
Its an ambition to oneday build a watercooled system, maybe when I have a proper job and lots of money!
Dan
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 5:05 pm
by Sovereign
Air now, air tomorrow, AIR FOREVER! Even my dual 7900GTX dealie is gonna be air, don't have the money for water (yes I'm spending $3k but I have to stay UNDER $3k and I'm not cutting parts to allow for water cooling...besides I drag my desktop to the neighbor's for LANs quite frequently).
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:42 pm
by Imakeholesinu
Air cooling with copper heatsinks. Three 80mm fans keep my beast at 45 degrees C.
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 9:21 pm
by Sovereign
Without overclocking or overvolting, the XP90 keeps my CPU at 27C idle and 40C load....but with the OC I get 38 idle and 50 load. It's a NewCastle so it doesn't OC worth a crap....my Opter-OWN will fix that!
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:57 am
by stev
Cooling with a HydroCool 200 (modded).
Using an older Koolance GPU WB in the loop too.
The Corsair Nautilus 500 should work well for the price of about $150 or less.
It has gotten many good reviews lately.
I really like external cooling units. Less chances for any leaks to happen inside of the computer case. Both the Corsair products use the medical/industrial clamps that are not to leak.
Air cooling is fun, but cleaning out all of those dust bunnies is a real pain. The HydroCool 200EX and the Nautilus should be easy to clean those bad bunnies out.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 10:00 am
by Apoptosis
Water-Cooling with a Corsair/Delphi HydroCool 200 (modded) here also... lol on the personal system...
The test bench uses Nautilus 500 systems
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 1:33 pm
by infinitevalence
7 Swiftech 6002's
1 Koolance CPU200
1 Koolance CPU100
2 Swiftech MCP655
1 Swiftech MCP650
1 Swiftech MCP600
1 Black Ice Extreme 2x120
3 Black Ice Pro 2x120
1 Black Ice Pro 1x120
1 Koolance Exos
1 Koolance PC2
thats more or less all of it
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:59 am
by Silent Fox
I might end up getting a swiftech Hp-120 premium. Its almost an entry level kit, good cooling performance, and upgradable. Too bad its $250 cdn.
booooo...
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:06 am
by Immortal
Air! Im using an Aero 4 on my rig... i dont think il ever change!
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:17 pm
by stev
Silent Fox wrote:
I might end up getting a swiftech Hp-120 premium. Its almost an entry level kit, good cooling performance, and upgradable. Too bad its $250 cdn.
booooo...
A Corsair Nautilus 500 should be about $180CND.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:56 pm
by hainer36
watercooling....with a few air rigs, but the users wouldnt like the high-techyness (family)
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:03 pm
by kenc51
infinitevalence wrote:7 Swiftech 6002's
1 Koolance CPU200
1 Koolance CPU100
2 Swiftech MCP655
1 Swiftech MCP650
1 Swiftech MCP600
1 Black Ice Extreme 2x120
3 Black Ice Pro 2x120
1 Black Ice Pro 1x120
1 Koolance Exos
1 Koolance PC2
thats more or less all of it
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:52 pm
by stev
Air is lead by a 2:1 ratio. Heat-pipes must be the leading factor.
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:36 pm
by pcrobot
My 4 fans (1x120mm & 3x80mm) rule!
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:59 pm
by Fogey
Water and Air both.
Kenc51: Very good post above..Real good!