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Originally posted by NVIDIA256


A good water cooling system, setup properly; is 5 times more effective than the best copper heat sink. Plus water cooling systems look awesome, put the ink dye in and a neon light and you have a pimping system. Also liquid freon is the best cooling option avalible out there right now, my colleuge got his 2.4 ghz p4 up to 3.2ghz, My processor FSB has been overclocked to 800Mhz, you simply can\'t do that with a Copper heatsink or water cooling.

I agree totally that they are a way better cooling solution. But imo they just arn\'t worth it just yet. I\'d rather use a UV die and UV cathode  But for the everyday computer person it\'s just not needed. Personally, I don\'t overclock cpus, I\'ve seen the outcome to many times to put me off. I wouldn\'t overclock a cpu with a stock sink anyway.

One day i\'ll get a good water cooling system. Right now i just don\'t need it.

When you OC with Liqiud freon there is really no danger unless your moron and increase the core voltage to 1.90 and try and overkill the cpu. Other than that it \'s all good, though you must know what your doing, or else you asking for a real mess. Also in order to run my Vapochill unit and water cooler for my graphics card I have 550Watt enermax power supply unit. I have temp cpntrol on everything, it\'s great and the investment is well worth it. Think about it, you buy a 2.5 ghz cpu whic can be pumped up  into the 3.4-3.6 ghz range. Already you have a cpu faster than any consumer cpu on the market also the unit is versatile, in where the clamp piece can be changed for future cpu upgrades.

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I don"t overclock anything besides my gfx card. Oneday i\'ll get liquid cooling, probably when i get my 2.8xp. Only problem is my mobo doesn\'t have any holes for the waterblock. So i\'ll have to hunt around for one that doesn\'t need it. Which i doubt there is a decent one if one at all.

I just don\'t overclock because i don\'t really need too. When it comes to gaming the diffference between 2gig and 3 gig isn\'t much. Loading times improve and application work improves. You\'ll probably get about 5 fps difference. The real power is in the gfx card. So hopefully people that do buy watercooling products/systems also watercool thier gfx card and overclock it.

Imo, water cooling is pretty cheap. I\'ve seen kits for as low as 30usd dollers.  not bad.

Definitley, Water cooloing units have started to peice there way into the semi mainstream market. I agree hole heartivly with you that the best bang for buck in performance is the GFX card not the CPU there is no doubt about that. What really sucked me into the Liquid freon was the fact that I could maximize my ram(since I am a ram whore) to 800mhz utilizing the ddr 400\'s potential incased into dual channel dim setup(got to love the granit bay\'s)

any I am drunk right now, so I apoligize for my sloppy sentince structure and spelling.  I hope you enjoy your new CPU and ATI+AMD all the way baby!!!!!!!!!!!

PS, Why does AMD not protect the core like intel does, I only ask this cause those looking into a vapochill have to be extemely careful not to crush the core when installing the unit.  Also I like AMD\'s aprouch towards the 64bit era, as oppossed to intel\'s 64bit or nothing method.

Good night all It\'s time for me to pass out!!1
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Originally posted by NVIDIA256


PS, Why does AMD not protect the core like intel does, I only ask this cause those looking into a vapochill have to be extemely careful not to crush the core when installing the unit.  Also I like AMD\'s aprouch towards the 64bit era, as oppossed to intel\'s 64bit or nothing method.

Good night all It\'s time for me to pass out!!1
:thepimp: :thepimp:

The new cores are meant to be protected.. The hammer cores have a heat spreader etc.

I  haven\'t seen anyone crack/crush thier cores myself. Even though heavy sinks like the slk800 risk that problem. Personaly i find that if someone was to crush thier core. It would be out of stupidty or lazyness in installing the sink. (not being careful etc)
Like most non standard user things. Things can go wrong. Don\'t wanna get a leak with a water cooling system...

Nice stuff.

Question though.  Is overclocking any harm to your computer?

Originally posted by The Hurricane
Question though.  Is overclocking any harm to your computer?

Well, depending on how much or how little... I\'d have to say no, not really. I guess it does shorten the life of the OC\'ed chips a bit, but nothing you\'d really know anyway (within reason at least).

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Over clocking anything shortens it\'s life..   Depending on how much it\'s over clocked. As far as I know, when they test the Cpus / GPUs  they test its o/c abilities in a way. When they reach a unstable speed they down clock the processor and set it’s clock rate leaving leeway for over clocking.  That\'s how they give each cpu it\'s determined speed. As far as I know anyway... I\'m probably wrong though

I have a p2.4b (533mhz bus) and choose not to overclock.  Silence is golden to me and I have all my case fans off, I won\'t do anything to make my components run hotter than they already are.

If I had the money I\'d snatch the Prometeia water cooling thingamabob.