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Originally Posted by pshrynk
You have a water cooled computer? What kind of rig are you running?
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Xeon X3370 3.0GHz, OCed to 4.03GHz (benched at 4.5GHz)
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard
8GB G.Skill DDR2-1066 OCed to 1200
6x320GB Seagate RAID-10
Homebuilt water cooling with an XSPC dual-bay reservoir and a Laing-clone 200GPH pump, Swiftech GTZ waterblock, and the radiator is a heater-core from a '77 Bonneville. Not as "home-built" as my first rig which was a submersible aquarium pump in a Rubbermaid container, but not a kit. I deliberately kept the radiator outside the case for better efficiency.
For those who don't understand the concept, it works the same way as the motor in your car (unless you own an original VW Beetle): A water pump circulates water through a metal block which sits on top of the CPU. That water carries heat away to a radiator and back, continuing the cycle. The clamps I use are just smaller versions of the ones you see on a car's radiator hose, and the coolant is distilled water with something called Water-Wetter that's used in cars to make their cooling systems more chemically efficient; I won't use the "custom" jazz they sell for ridiculous prices at enthusiast sites.
It sounds shocking (no pun intended) to some but in enthusiast circles this is fairly commonplace. The
really serious gamers use $800 phase-change units which use refrigerant to cool their rigs down below zero, and those who overclock just for the sport of it use liquid nitrogen. Me? I use my machine as basically a workstation on steroids; encoding video, multiple virtual servers, etc. That and I like the idea of getting US$1500 worth of performance from US$300 worth of Intel's silicon.