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On 30/05/15 22:37, Dan Smith wrote:
Good evening folks,
Once again, thanks for all of your input, it made me come to release
that liquid cooling isn't worth the while especially if I am not
overclocking.
To close this thread off, I bought myself a nice shiny Cooler Master
Hyper 212 Evo and instead of using the standard CPU compound that comes
with it, I applied some Arctic Silver 5.
Temperature seems to be idling at around 13-20C despite having no
exhaust fan above the cooler, there is an exhaust to the side of it
though, I may grab an exhaust fan for the top of the case when the money
tree is watered again.
Thanks again
Dan
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:amidgley@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Freon (or its modern replacements) perhaps?
On Fri, 29 May 2015 18:52 Dan Smith <dan@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Thanks everyone for your input, it has been very useful, after
playing an intensive game on my PC today it is definitely time
to move away off the standard AMD stock cooler.
I think it will be a better idea to air cool after discussing
this with you guys and a friend off list, as I am not looking to
overclock the CPU anyway, if anything I will be replacing it
once I have the money together to be able to do this.
Regards
Dan
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I am currently looking at buying a closed loop liquid
cooler for my CPU, considering I have been running on
the stock cooler since I built the PC which was late
2012 time, my PC is used for a variety of things
including the basic web browsing, emails etc, however it
does also run games through the use of eyefinity (being
able to combine dual screen setups into one), alongside
small amounts of photo and video editing.
Well, you know my experience about water cooling already...
(For others, http://digdilem.org/cooling )
But you probably don't want something like that. It has some
drawbacks, portability being one.
Closed-loops: I don't understand the benefits over a good
quality air cooler with a quiet fan. The closed loops take
the one good thing about water cooling (ability to passive
cool) and throw it away by merely repositioning to heat
source and then blasting with a fan anyway.
I also don't think they will give you the benefit you expect
- allowing you to overclock a huge amount. Whilst that is
possible - it's also possible with air cooling, which is
more reliable, cheaper and no less noisy (ime).
Sorry to be negative, but this is the PC equivalent of
fitting neon underlights and a cherrybomb exhaust to a 1.3
Vauxhall Corsa.
S
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