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Old 07-14-2004
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New to water cooling.

Hey hey,

I've often seen pics of machines that use water cooling to keep
those babies chilled. My questions are however:

1. When does it become necessary to use water cooling?
2. What different types are there.
3. How much do they run.
4. Are they hard to put in?

As a PC guy I like tp put em together but I've never really stepped into this grey area of building. I think maybe one day I'd like to Mod my own PC from scratch...maybe some red lights and a nice case to boot....but I've always been interested in water cooling..


So what say you water coolers...
Howz it work.
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Old 07-14-2004
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1. IMO its never really necessary, just when you want your cooling to be quieter, and maybe better at cooling in some cases.

2. For pumps, which are the main part, there is two main types. 1 type needs to be placed in water, and 1 needs a reservoir to hold its water.

3. When you say how much do they run, what do you mean?

4 I do not know, I have never installed one.
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Old 07-14-2004
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As in how much do they cost.
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Oh, heres some sites with parts, it depends what you want cooled. You can get parts to cool different hardware.

http://www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2...tegory_Code=WC

http://www.crazypc.com/products/cool...tercooling.htm
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Old 07-14-2004
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Thanks for those links man
Still reading them but wanted to post an interesting link
for anyone else who is interested

http://www.tweakmonster.com/articles...pc65/index.htm
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