Quote Originally Posted by camouflage View Post
Mounting a rad would cause no advantage - let's say I have 25°C room temp here in Summer - so the rad is not able to cool down the water sub room temp, that's the reason the chiller does all the work.

Regarding to Your 2nd question, when my system is OCed near limit so that I need really cold water I can set off the chiller and have cold water for almost one hour - but I forgot to insulate the tank, if You do that with some Armaflex the cold will last longer.

When my system is not OCed I can run it without switching on the chiller.

My current E8400 runs 9x333 @ 0.984 Vcore - this is stable even with water temp = room temp.

Thanks a TON. I'm trying to collect some info for when I build a nehalem based system in the not so near future. I would probably get a tank about the same size as yours.

My idea is that if I can eliminate some heat entering the tank, clearly, the chiller's effect will last longer since it would be on an OC'd processor, NB and video card most likely in a single loop.

I know that I can't drop the temps below ambient, but pumping in water that is 10 or more degrees below a loop w/o a rad, that would be worth it and might take a a small portion of the workload off the chiller.

At least I think so.....