Adventures in water cooling!

[agchenry]

Just recently setup my PC with water cooling to see what the hype about water cooling was. I found out the hype is for real! I purchased an Exos liquid cooling system from Koolance and slapped it into my rig. (Took about 30 minutes to install the unit). Today my Koolance 6800 Cooler arrived so i put that in and began seeing what a little water can do for me. My, was i impressed. I clocked my 3.0C processor up to 3.920 (261 fsb @ 1.65 Vcc)and ran Prime955 for about 6 hours error free. Once i was convinced it was stable i started doing some Benches . (this is where the fun began) I had some decent scores before i "Stepped into Liquid" so i didnt expect much better benches, but i was WRONG! First i tried Sandra and benched the CPU. I got : ALU- 12019 ,FPU 4944, and isse2- 8674. I then ran 3DM03 which i had a decent score of 12,400+ score so didnt expect much gain there WRONG! again. I now got 14030 yikes!. I moved over to 3DM05 use to get about 5300 i now got 6098 .Finally I gave aquamark a run, use to get about 72k i now got 76345. I never thought a little water would make such a diffrence. I was able to clock my card to 444/1188 after adding the VGA cooler. In case you guys are wondereing whole setup cost me Cpu $130+ Koolance system $200, $60 for the vga cooler, and $399 for the VGA. Not bad considering i spent less what an FX-55 woulda cost me.I just had to share my little story with people that could appriciate it cuz my GF didnt think it was anythig to be happy about. lol
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My Rig: P D 955 XE @ 4.35 (Stable), Abit AW8-Max mobo,1GB Patriot DDR2 1000 (2x512), EVGA 7800 GTX 512 74GB Raptor , 250 GB 16MB WD, 300 GB 16 MB WD

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[mojo1340]

Sounds cool!

How bout some pix?

[agchenry]

Here ya go Mojo




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My Rig: P D 955 XE @ 4.35 (Stable), Abit AW8-Max mobo,1GB Patriot DDR2 1000 (2x512), EVGA 7800 GTX 512 74GB Raptor , 250 GB 16MB WD, 300 GB 16 MB WD

[mojo1340]

Nice! Thanks for the pix.

[2old2care]

NICE....we appreciate it.
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[JayDubya]

Wow, looking VERY nice.
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[[KoG]^weaZel]

once you jump into the water and grow gills you dont want to ever go back to aircooling. Well that is unless you work on your computer alot or upgrade often. But I still use H2O on my cpu and am going to get a new waterblock for my 6800U.
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[agchenry]

yup i got my gills and i'm not letting em go lol. I suggest you gime the Koolance one i'm using it waors so sweet. I touch my card and after running it hard it doesnt even feel warm to the touch. My ambient is pretty low now, (about 73F) and on heavy heavy load my Vid card maxing out around 44C at max oc lol.
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My Rig: P D 955 XE @ 4.35 (Stable), Abit AW8-Max mobo,1GB Patriot DDR2 1000 (2x512), EVGA 7800 GTX 512 74GB Raptor , 250 GB 16MB WD, 300 GB 16 MB WD

[agchenry]

BTW thx for the compliment Jay and others
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My Rig: P D 955 XE @ 4.35 (Stable), Abit AW8-Max mobo,1GB Patriot DDR2 1000 (2x512), EVGA 7800 GTX 512 74GB Raptor , 250 GB 16MB WD, 300 GB 16 MB WD

[PolarPyro]

w00t very nice rig you have there!
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[Xal]

NICE
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