All these years people have talked...

[MaxxxRacer]

this is like computer ricers... let me put my 3 inch exhaust on my 120bph engine so it sounds like a firecracker so pppl think im cool. Its just overkill...

And its overkill that in this case will hurt the performance of the rest of your system... the irony.. as well as having a decent chance of being harmful to the system due to the alluminum. (if ur runing WW or zerex or soemthign similar ur ok though)

This product provides nothing that some decent ramsinks and a 80mm fan cant handle. And handle with great effeciency i mind you. So why I ask? If you doing it just to look cool, then you shouldnt be watercooling... Watercooling is for performance enhancement not to show off at a lan party.

But i guess what it really comes down to is that someone is going to buy this product and then come on the forums and complain that it doesnt do jack for his performance. I just dont want to have to say i told you so. I generally like providing the good advice before ppl open their wallets.

[Wicked Klown]

Not the first people by all means to do it. About two years ago another web site was selling ram waterblocks. Altho the other places blocks looked alot better they have since stopped selling them.

[aCidbAbY]

i understand what you mean but it is just a fun idea.
i totally am with you on this i juat wanted to get your real reason out.lol
i have a chipset waterblock
do you like those?

[MaxxxRacer]

acid baby you want me to lecture you dont you!

I think you knwo what i have to say about chipset waterblocks. useless things unless you got tons of voltage

[aCidbAbY]

im @ 1.8v-1.7v uh vchipset lol

[Holst]

acid baby you want me to lecture you dont you!

I think you knwo what i have to say about chipset waterblocks. useless things unless you got tons of voltage

You often think that people only do things for the same reasons you do.

This is simply not true.

I know allot of people who run there systems at STOCK speed with watercooling...

Why?

Because its quiet!!!

If you want a quiet PC with a minimum of fans northbridge blocks, ram blocks, voltage regulation blocks and watercooled PSU are all usefull. The main reason I got into watercooling to start with was to reduce noise, not for overclocking. Although I soon turned to the dark side :P

Check out www.zerofanzone.co.uk for bladerunners quiet PC.

[Weapon]

well, I got two of the DDR waterblocks in so I will get to testing them as soon as I get caught up on cores.

at default voltage, they will surely be nothing more than eyecandy. At more insane voltage levels, I think they could definitlely help. I have some BH5 here that loves heavy voltage - 3.2v seems to be its favorite power dosage but it runs damn hot at those levels. So, watercooling it shall be.

As for the waterchiller route, I have done that in the past on RAM with no condensation problems - you just have to use really thorough anti-condensation measures. The last time, it was a thin sheet of neoprene over the back of the PCB under the DIMM slots, neoprene between the slots, a dab of dielectric in the slots and a light coating of acrylic conformal coating on the mem pcb followed with a thin neoprene layer. That pretty much took care of it.

This time around, I will have to test it with the BH5 sticks and some newer stuff just to see how it plays out with just slight overvolting.

[aCidbAbY]

my OCZvx is @3.56vdimm lol and yes it is pretty hot.

[Holst]

Weapon,

When i was testing my Bh5 i tired spraying them with electronic freeze spray, it didnt gain me any OC even with them well below zero.

But ill be interested in your results. You might use more voltage them me, in those days I was only at around 3v.

[MaxxxRacer]

holst i know ppl make watercooling setups to be quiet as well.. but two things.. for nb's you really dont need it. one of those zalman coolers is more than enough. And we are at XS. We are not at the sharka extreme forums... we are at XS. where we want things to go fast. So I can safely assume that anyone who ventures into the watrecooling forum is most certainly overclocking. I would be darned supprised if ive ever met someone in this forum (watercooling) that doesnt have theri watercooled pc overclocked.

[Weapon]

^ I run dead stock speed. I even considered underclocking to make sure I was getting the most out of my watercooling - I could hear the data flowing through my n.bridge too fast and it was annoying so I had to turn it down.


holst - I have tried the freeze spray on different parts before and you can get components super cold but I think for it to work on memory, you would have to get the temps really consistent across the mem chips.

I ran into something like that with my n.bridge cooling on my phase change system (CPU is phase change, n.bridge is waterblock + pelt). With the first pelt cooling I tried, the n.bridge could hit low enough temps but there were fluctuations in the temp and it would screw up. So, I settled for a slightly different setup that didn't get the n.bridge quite as cold but it would hold the temps more consistent and it ran much smoother. hopefully, I can find a similar sweet spot with the memory cooling.

acidbaby - 3.56? lol - I bet you can almost fry eggs on it. do you still have the factory heatspreaders on it? On my OCZ, it ran better without the spreaders - I replaced them with small OCZ aluminum sinks on each chip. I think that is related to the TIM they use with mem heatspreaders. My bro, ardawg, first tried this with his hyperX, which has a nice spongy gray TIM between the spreader and the chips - I swear that stuff was locking heat in as opposed to getting rid of it. We removed it and his memory ran better so I tried it with mine and got the same results.

[aCidbAbY]

oczVx is supposed to be run at high volts so im not worried about it be cause they will stay under warranty. (lifetime) plus the 260@2-2-2-10 aint to bad

another 5mhz aint worth voiding my warranty!

[MaxxxRacer]

*pistols whips weapon*

Weapon - "I have a phase change system and I underclock. I find it beneficial to have the cpu as close to absolute zero as I can. Its a zen thing."

I swear weapon...

Well you want to hear something funny. My enermax 350watt would make sounds when my cpu was under load.. it would change in pitch.. when load is off it makes a different pitch sound. it was not the fans.. it was like harmonics inside of the psu..it was wierd.. When i got my ocz/tagan it went away...

[Weapon]

lol - i finally fell victim to the 'absolute silence' disease that is roaming the watercooling world. After I took care of that noisy n.bridge by slowing down the data through it, I noticed my hard drives emit a nearly inaudiable tick and whir noise last nite. So, I am going to replace them with toast and cheese sandwiches. While a toast and cheese is not nearly as effective at data storage, it makes no noise whatsoever. Now, I just have to figure out where to plug in the sata cables.

[MaxxxRacer]

ROFL!!

I prefer ham and chese for maximum storage space. the ham gives the cheese the extra boost to really compete with the 15k scsi drives.. it also gives a nice arouma in the room..

As for that pesky sata cable.. forgeta bout it as paulie would say. Didnt you know that chesse drives work on SATA osmosis...

[Torin]

lol - i finally fell victim to the 'absolute silence' disease that is roaming the watercooling world. After I took care of that noisy n.bridge by slowing down the data through it, I noticed my hard drives emit a nearly inaudiable tick and whir noise last nite. So, I am going to replace them with toast and cheese sandwiches. While a toast and cheese is not nearly as effective at data storage, it makes no noise whatsoever. Now, I just have to figure out where to plug in the sata cables.

Toast and cheese sandwich, brilliant!