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Originally Posted by Brenjen
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Originally Posted by Systemlord
Water cooling isn't the answer, a better airflowing computer case is. The second most costly component during my new computer build last June 07 was the computer case, $330 dollars for a computer case does seem like alot. When you get the same temperatures inside a case as you do outside the case with a bunch of fans, thats awesome! I'm running an 8800GTX and these are supposed to run HOT, it idles at 52C and never go's above 68C max load. What case do you own? Mid size PC case are not enough for todays gaming systems in my opinion!
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To each his own. I wouldn't trade my water cooling for a $330 case....especially with a bunch of fans 
Your card runs Idle where mine runs max load heavily overclocked with four OC'd cores pouring heat into the loop. As far as what cools more efficiently; it's water cooling over fans all day long. As far as cost per centigrade of cooling, it's far cheaper to go with noisy fans usually unless you hodge podge a water cooling system together. You can get deals on the water blocks if you search around & a junkyard heater core will run somewhere in the area of $5 so really; it's possible to get water cooling on BOTH a CPU & a GPU for under $330  As the saying goes; You gotta' shop around.
EDIT: But I will agree with standing cow; unless you're over clocking, water cooling really isn't neccesary. |
I'm sorry I forgot to mention my 8800GTX idles at 52C and loads at 68C with a GPU core clock of 663MHz, Shader at 1525MHz and memory at 2100MHz. Not bad for an older gen chip thats was known for massive heat, all four case fans are very quiet being Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm. My E6600 is at 3.6GHz using an Tuniq Tower 120, temps are cool for air cooling!
A lot of my friends use the case I have using water cooling, whats your GPU and CPU running at?
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systemlord, shot with
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