e4300 IHS Removed!

[Liquid3D]

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I compared cooling low TDP chips on water to cooling something like Prescott on a entry level Phase change system. It was sort of in jest, but all humor makes light of a real situation.

Lets say you overclock a Prescott 950 from it's default settings (1.4V 130W TDP 3.4GHz) to the following 4.4GHz 1.5Vcore, now your TDP is 193W almost 200W

Then you overclock a Conroe E6400 from it's default settings (1.2V 65W TDP 2.1GHz) to the following 3.1GHz, 1.25Vcore, now your TDP is 100W.

If you ran the Prescott as above in a Entry level phase change under full load your temps would be around 0C ~ 10C

If you ran the Conroe as above in a H20 system under full load your temps would be around 33C ~ 40C depending on the system.

I know it's a bit exaggerated, I was trying to raise your sprirts. I know this, since converting to H20 I would never go back to air-cooled. I usually keep dle temps around 28C, which is not extraordinary when yout think about it. Conroe is just 65W, if you mount a dual heater core outside your case in ambeint environment then get a good waterblock TDX, Apex Ultra, Alphacool, Cool-Cases, etc. So my ambeint room temp is 17C / 62F (I like cold but 62F isn't that cold when you think of it) therefore the water entering the block is very close to ambient say 19C (remember dual radiator) and water exiting the block is about 10C higher at 29C interestingly enough this is close to what the CPU temp might be;