acacia666avenue
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I was wondering if the koolance kits are good for liquid cooling
I was looking at the Koolance Exos-2 LX
Any other suggestions?
I was looking at the Koolance Exos-2 LX
Any other suggestions?
Tmagic650 said:"Any other suggestions?"...
Stay away from Liquid Cooling
fullmetalvegan said:Uh, why? They keep my entire system (CPU, Mobo, GPU, RAM) phenomally cool for overclocking.
Tmagic650 said:Liquid cooling problems:
Expensive
High Maintenance
Possible leaks, trashing expensive motherboard, video card and case
Noisy pump
A kit will be easier to put together, but will not give you the freedom of choosing the parts you'd like, such as the waterblocks and the radiator. It's your choice. The Koolance Exos-2 LX is a good kit, so don't worry about that.so would a koolance kit be good or would it better to buy all parts separately?
Tmagic650 said:That Koollance Exos-2 is expensive ($350 msrp) but very neat!
Do you have to select special motherboards to use liquid cooling?
Just to add, most of the maintenance cost depends on the type of coolant and additives used. I've seen people who've used ordinary tap water, thinking it'd do, only to have algae cram up the whole system in a matter of weeks.fullmetalvegan said:uhm, no, not even close to 'high' maintanence. You fill the liquid up every few weeks-months, that's hardly high maintanence. And with a lot of the kits/cases having easy filling access from the 5'25" drive bays, this makes it even less of a problem.
Tmagic650 said:Liquid cooling problems:
Expensive
High Maintenance
Possible leaks, trashing expensive motherboard, video card and case
Noisy pump
CMH said:De-ionized water doesn't quite stay de-ionized for long
Even using a plastic waterblock, which poses its own problems (bad conductor of heat, prone to cracking with age, etc).
The only way you can get away with the problems surrounding water conducting electricity, is by NOT using water. Which means synthetic oils, which cost a bomb. Normal oils cannot be used, because of a whole host of problems (yeah, sure, tomshardware submerged a computer in oil, but they soon realised their mistake).
Bring us back to another point: you got money?