Watercooler suggestion for NB

[Akrian]

Hi , well after testing some more 441fsb with my Q9550 I was happy enough to get it stable in 3h+ of Prime95 , but the happines went away as soon as I strated gaming : well to start all this week I had random bsod-like freezes while playing legendary ( I know it's crap , but hell it was for free) , and LOTRO , so at first I was wondering that it was my RAM , but prime and other torture tests were stable , then I started to point at my video-card , but again - put it in my second rig , and runs laike a champ , audio card - updated drivers - still got chrasesh , put my 4870x2 in the second pci-e slot ( though the audio could overheat or somthing becasue they were almost toching each other) - no effect , turend of the audio - wokerd well . Then I began to look at the NB temps : while playing at windowed mode , I got stable for 45min , and NB temp was 45-46 , when going fullscreen after that - freeze . So I put my NB fan up to 95-97% usage and got 2h+ stable in lotro in fullscreen .temps are 48 stable after 2h of playing . now the problem is that when I have it on like that my PC sounds like a bike ready to take of ....
I want to watercool that damn NB , but since I'm still new at OC , I have no clue on what watercooling setup I should get for 24/7 , any ideas ? ( prefered to be in range of 0-170 $ , since I'm a student , and have no extra money to spend ) . :)

[vinister]

I would suggest the swiftec single 120 cpu kit, with a swiftec MCW30 added in for the chipset.

The 120 kit is $145 CAD (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25710&vpn=H20-120-COMPACT&manufacture=Swiftech), and the MCW30 is only 30 bones (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=19768&vpn=MCW30&manufacture=Swiftech).

This setup will cool your whole system, is easy to install, and all you need is a location designed for mounting a 120mm fan, and it will be compatible. The pump is built in to the cpu block, and the resevoir is built into the rad, so the whole system is just 3 parts including the NB block, and a few inches of tubing.

The performance won't be crazy unbelievable, but it will be sufficient, quiet, and fairly simple, and only $175 CAD for everything. I have just recently built a system with this exact setup and it took literally 5 minutes to fill and bleed, and was a breeze to install. The pump is very quiet and I just could not get over the simplicity of the thing, specially compared to my triple setup.

Alternatively I would consider air cooling your NB, with this product (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25823&vpn=HR-05/IFX&manufacture=THERMALRIGHT), if it fits, or something similar.

NB temps are important for overall system stability. Synthetic tests tend to stress only one part of the system at a time. The new OCCT has a 'power supply' test, that runs the cpu and gpu stress tests a the same time. Other than that, I would consider a continuous crysis bench loop, or just gaming for real as you have been doing.

good luck with your cooling

[Akrian]

wow that was fast reply thx =)
I was just playing lotro ( in which I had 3 crashes today ) , and again 1.5h stable 0_0 , temp were reaching 50 on NB , but still stable , fan going 66% on video card , i have NO clue now WHY sometimes it freezes in 15-20 mins today and now I got 2h+ , and then within a 40min payse 1.5h stable .
For saftey I will go with a water cooling , but still - no clue what-so ever . The only thing I did - turned my anit-virous off , but I had crashes after that also , so heck I don't know why .

[Akrian]

I was thinking about CORSAIR Nautilus 500 Complete External Liquid Cooling Sytem ; or Thermaltake CL-W0175 Water Cooler ( since I havethermaltake case anyway) , how are those two ?

[Sailindawg]

@Akrian

Of the 2 kits, the Corsair Nautilus is the better build wise. I purchased the Swiftech 220 rad/res version of the all in one kit. The pump/cpu block is very bad design. It WILL leak. It also did not cool well at all. I got better results with my Big Typhoon than with the stock 220 rad/res kit. What I ultimately did was reuse the 220 rad/res (http://www.petrastechshop.com/swmcqposerab3.html), bought a D-tek v2 block, a Laing D-5 Vario pump, some 1/2" fittings, a fan controller and 7/8" tubing. I put together a very simple cpu only cooling loop that performs very well that can be upgraded to cool my northbridge.

Stay away from either Swiftech Compact Cool kit. If you really want a simple loop, just get the rad/res combo, a quality cpu block, pump, tubing and a fan controller. Swiftech just came out with a 320 version of the rad/res. (http://www.swiftech.com/)

Good Luck! :up: