Watercooling Myths Exposed (faq) Options

[Marci]

Wotcha folks... whilst the rest of the peeps on the forum sort out the Watercooling FAQ between em (if that's still the plan), to keep y'all occupied in the meantime, here's one of the best articles on watercooling that there is.

To be filed under REQUIRED READING

http://www.overclockers.com/articles1088/

[anthonyi]

Yep...still the plan.

[Rockin]

What an excellent guide

[RoJo]

Yeap, been there already, as well as a lot of other places, with regards to my watercooling setup.

But overclockers.com is one of the best, without dought.

[kismet28]

We'll put that link under "Further Reading", eh chaps

But that is a great article

[Boli]

I cannot stress how much peopel should actually read this - they KNOW what they are talking about.

The part on the pumps adding "heat" to the water should be gold plated and hung on the front page of the water-cooling page.

This post has been edited by Boli: Nov 10 2004, 03:55 PM

[Firelord]

Great reading and very informative

[NatureBoy]

Yeah thats a nice little guide.

[Paul]

That was an interesting read. I'd like to see more guides like this, as it can often be very offputting trying to get into something like water cooling.

Simple, straight-forward "yes / no" guides are very helpful.

My congratulations and thanks to the authors.

[Marci]

And the latest update....

http://www.overclockers.com/articles1218/

[Jabo]

Just read the first one - 90% perfectly correct, only some minor 'omissions' i.e. thermal transfer depends not only on contact time, admittely very heavily, but also on temps difference and both are umseparable.
Alu and copper thermal properties connected remarks are misleading, why do you think Swiftech made their aircooler with alu pins?
Block shinyness - it is about flatness if we are talking block's base but the rest shoud be as 'scratched' as possible to simply increase avaialble surface area, it is simply astonishing how significant surface area increase can be had by simply 'scrtching' blocks internals or glass-bead/coarse sand blasting it!

Second installement was really interesting, especially the paragrphs dealing with CPU temp/OC scaling relations.

[Alec]

wow very handy!

the watercooling component order has really helped me with planning my future loop

Thanks,
Alec

[shadebug]

you might wanna have a look at the beginner's guide to watercooling, also pinned in this part of the forum, good stuff there.

Way I understand physics, as long as the water temperature stays under the temp of the block it should perform about the same so you can pretty much put anything anywhere, the important bit is more putting your bubble point at the top of your loop (be it your rad's bleed valve or your res. That sad, I've only ever made one loop so nevermind me

[Guest_coolfris_*]

The links were dead. I thought OMG they are gone..., but here are the new ones:

Watercooling Myths Exposed

Common Cooling Misconceptions

[Rockin]

Chers for the updated linkys