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Water Cooling?
Pathos:
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=6&l3=198&model=969&modelmenu=1
My brother just got a new case with a 12cm fan, its a hell of a lot quieter than mine but I suppose you've tried that.
GenuineAdvantage:
The desktop I have with an Intel doesn't get that kind of hot, so I don't need water cooling. I'd get one in a second if I needed it though. In fact it still seems like a good idea because of the dust, though I probably won't get one. I'm not worried about the water because they're designed not to fail. It would be worth the quiet and lack of dust clog. But it's funny someone mentions the different room solution. That's what I do, sort of. My PC is in the closet. The fan is not set to be dynamic, that is highly annoying. One speed fan and closet treatment, peace and quiet out here. Except for the jackass neighbor sometimes :)
Lead Head:
Water cooling uses Distilled Water. If your CPU ever hit 100*C, it would pretty much self destruct, and if it even reached 100*C with water cooling, you have some big issues. Decent water cooling that takes care of the GPUs to costs in the $300-400 range, for a lot less you could get a Thermaltake Big Typhoon cpu heatsing with a silent 120MM fan, a Zalman vf900 for the GPUs and a few silent 120MM case fans. Water cooling still needs fans...and to cool everything, GPUs, CPU, etc.. you will need a big radiator, like a 2 fan or possible 3 fan version... For nearly the same cooling performence just get a good air cooling setup thats silent.
EDIT: If you get annoyed by HDDs or PSUs with nearly silent fans,seak help
H_TeXMeX_H:
You could use distilled water, but usually it's a special type of coolant or distilled water + anti-freeze.
http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t19768.html
P.S. If your CPU hit 100 C it would fry anyway ... so really it don't matter much :D
Lead Head:
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--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---You could use distilled water, but usually it's a special type of coolant or distilled water + anti-freeze.
http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t19768.html
P.S. If your CPU hit 100 C it would fry anyway ... so really it don't matter much :D
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No, check xtremesystems.org under water cooling, you don't use anti freeze unless you running a chiller in your water loop, there is no reason to add antifreeze, it would probably just lower cooling performence anyways. Like I said, its better off to use good quiet air cooling then dodgy water cooling. Another, if you get say a Copper CPU block, you will have to get a copper radiator, copper GPU blocks,etc..If there is any other metal besides copper, major corrosion will occur.
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