water cooling

Well it will keep the cpu close to room temperature IMO. The heat will be disipated into the room and can tangibly heat it up. So you will be more uncomfortable. Why is the room that hot? No aircon?
 
yea no aircon

and the sun shines directly through the huge window even with the blinds closed to still cooks

how much would you say a decent air con is?

i dont have 4-8k for an aircon

i dont mind the heat just my overclocked intel core 2 is not very happy


would watercooling bring it down from the 50 degrees its sitting at now?
 
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I think 50 degrees is a fine temperature for CPU, especially when its overclocked.

I used to be worried when I had one Idling around 67 degrees :eek:

but I was told that a dangerous temperature for a CPU is around 80 degrees.

PS. I managed to fix the 67 degree one, got it down to about 45 degrees. Somebody forgot the thermal paste :o
 
Decent water cooling will bring your temps down to about 10-12 degrees above your room temperature. 50 degrees isn't too bad for your Core2 though, and a decent water cooling kit is going to cost you around R3k. So I would probbaly suggest you consider clocking your chip a few mhz less than absolute max if you are experiencing heat related crashes.
 
Or What you could do is get a new CPU fan, which could help a bit. Not much though. But it is more cost efficient :)

Thats assuming you are using the stock fan. ;)
 
Yeah Killa, if you're still using your stock fan try getting a new one. If you really want some sort of WC system get the AquaGate Mini R120, I have one for my AMD 4400+ and it works great. Installation requires you to take out you're mobo tho. Also you might have problems if you can't replace your mobo's backing plate with the one they supply.
 
antowan you see the problem is it runs fine at 3.22ghz its just that jan and feb are so hot the air temp is really hot

after about six my system runs perfect

its only during the day when i want to encode something my cpu takes a knock

yea toxin ive just ordered it, did it bring the temps down alot? or like a small percent

i dont think ym gigabyte board has a backing plate
 
Swifetech Ultra+. Nuff said.
Cost you around R2.5K but you will not find a better water kit anywhere unless you modify the Swifetch itself using a much larger rad with 200mm fans etc...

My place also gets very hot with room temps sometimes hitting 32'C. CPU runs at 40'C @ 3.45GHz 1.4V. When it cools in the evening (late) CPU drops to 38~39'C at same speed.

What's great about the Swiftech also is how it brings down delta between idle and load temps. Loads temps don't add 13'C to idle sometimes less than 10'C even. So even when running 4GHz with CPU idling at 59'C loads don't get to 70'C.
 
Um 15'C I don't think that'll happen with an air cooler unless you live in Siberia.
Not even water can get you that low unless its chilled...
 
Nah those temps are way off the mark...
What are you guys using to measure temps? Bios readings and those packaged oc/monitoring programs are 80% incorrect
 
The room the comp is presently in idles at 16 celcius and only warms up when i come down on staff :)
 
Wish i could get my QX down to 30 idle, even with an Aquagate 120 i am hitting high 40's low 50's at idle and full load (presently rendering 2 rather large avi's) i am hitting over 70 on each core full load. Going to tear the whole system apart and rebuild just darn irritating but my old E6600 was always low 40's at full load 3.2ghz and the same water cooler.
 
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