First Water Kit Need Advice/Help!

[Capper]

not unless they release the AMD version, as they did with the CNPS9500, which I don't envision them doing. This one has the blue LED

[polobunny]

Just dropping in to say that even though water cooling kits are "universal" like you think Tyreal, they break like every other pieces of hardware. Unless they f*** up big time, I don't see a CPU line suddenly requiring a water cooling kit soon.
Something else to think about to: Central processing units, unlike graphical processing units are getting actively worked on on the power consumption point. That's why every once in a while we get small TDP versions which are as performant as their "high TDP" counterpart but heat less.

That's why everytime I tell myself i'm buying another WC kit I stop in time. Whether I hit 32 or 45 at full load makes no difference. The CPU is well within spec and I highly doubt this $300.00 difference for a water cooling kit is worth the performance difference, if any.

As Rich noted, get past the WOW factor and you'll see it's barely worth it, if only for the experience. Phase and other more extreme cooling methods are not dead, they're just not being widely used because once again, unless you're trying to break a record they're not all that useful. There's nothing cooling than seeing your computer run under the ambiant temperature, but how much are you ready to spend to see that?

[Bigedmond]

Its all personal preference. The idea of water in there computer still scares alot of people, and the new chip technology makes it so WCing isnt required when overclocking. I like the idea of having really cool temps, plus to me its quiter then air cooling. Thats why i am sticking with it for my new system.

[Tyreal]

Originally Posted by Bigedmond

Its all personal preference. The idea of water in there computer still scares alot of people, and the new chip technology makes it so WCing isnt required when overclocking. I like the idea of having really cool temps, plus to me its quiter then air cooling. Thats why i am sticking with it for my new system.

Same here. It was scary doing it for the first time but it's very safe as long as you do everything the right way and leak test. Apart from it running quieter and cooler, I like fiddling with it.

[Bigedmond]

Originally Posted by Tyreal

Same here. It was scary doing it for the first time but it's very safe as long as you do everything the right way and leak test. Apart from it running quieter and cooler, I like fiddling with it.

Well my last case had 4 fans in front, 2 in back, 2 each side and 1 on top. All 80mm, so when that thing fired up, it was LOUD. I went to water cooling, 3 fans and its much quiter.

[Tyreal]

My last case was bloody loud too.
120mm Ultra High Speed Panaflo exhaust
2 80mm Sunon fans intake
Two side 120mm intakes
92mm high speed panaflo on cpu

I hate noise now.

[screwballl]

I am the type that doesn't like the mixture of electricity and water
My current 3000+ system has 2 80mm intake, 2 80mm exhaust plus the psu fans and cpu heatsink and video card... I have a fan controller on the cpu and keep it around 8000rpm as any faster and it sounds like a jet... at 8000 you can barely hear the system as the 80mm are quiet fans (Cooler Master 24.4dB-A @ 2000rpm, 29 cfm)

[Dr. V]

8000RPM wtf? that seems like a mistake, or a retarded fan speed for a cpu fan!

[screwballl]

nah it goes up to 12,000 rpm top speed.. but anything over 8000 is just too noisy... it is a Thermaltake Volcano of some sort

thats ok my next build will be using the giant Scythe Ninja+ RevB (aka SCNJ-1100P)...going to check temps (on E6300) to see if I need the 120mm fan on it or not...

[Dr. V]

daaaaaaaammmmmmmmm lolll!!! 12000RPM is extremely insane! imagine how many CFM!!!