blown503

Does anyone here use a water block for cooling? What type do you use and what kind of temps do you get from it?

WyreTheWolf

One of the systems at the shop was running water cooling... But the temps sucked, it was nothing special just an aluminum water block, cheap pump, and cheap radiator... and temps were about the same as any decent standard cooler.

In water cooling ... the cooling is only as efficient as its components. If you have a sweet waterblock, and the rest of the water cooling system is crap... then your temps are not going to be good.

Try www.google.com and search for "water cooling CPU review" without the quotation marks.

Good luck!

craig588

I'm running a water cooled cpu, its home-made. I have it running though a refriderator (the same one I keep my mt. dew in) I get temps around 20C
My r9700pro is also water cooled, but it doesn't have a temp gauge, but I can reach over 400mhz core with it.

blown503

I bought the maze three from danger den for an amd 2600xp. The best I can do at room temp of 70 deg. F is 105 deg. F. at idle. I dont get it I thought I would get super cooling power but all I got is a case full of dang hose and out $260 bucks. The only advantage I can see is that I have an resivor that I can put Ice in to make things cooler, gonna try that some day.

Desert_Siege

although that is very possible with the right setup. The biggest advantages are you get little to no difference in idle and full load temps ( mine are 2-3C apart) and reduced noise. And I believe if you do some checking, you will find the same thing I did. Since the temperature displayed is not read internally (at least mine isn't) there is some desparity between the actual core temp and the displayed temp. I have probed my core after shutting the system down and removing the water block only to find that after reinstalling the block and powering back up, the temp displayed in BIOS was STILL higher than the reading I had just taken 2 minutes earlier. To my knowledge these things don't generate heat when they aren't powered on...lol. Both times I have tried this, the top of the core was within 1-2C of the same temp as the bottom of the waterblock. I have never seen a core temp above 43C or a water temp above 34C. As I am typing this, the water temp is 28C and core temp is reported as 39C and system temp is 37C. I could game for about 4 hours and those temps will go up 2-3C at the most. Something is definitlely wrong with the sensor that reports system temp, because it never changes. It is 37C everytime I check it, even after being off overnight, but I don't care about that one anyway. Vid card and CPU are both watercooled and the hard drives are cooled by low speed fans mounted to them. Good luck and I hope you find a block that works for you.