Water Cooling

MitaDC · October 25th, 2003, 12:53 PM

Hey do u guys recommend a vga cooler and a chipset cooler to go with this water cooling kit?? Getting 9800pro and need a good vga cooler. TY

RCN_Moose · October 25th, 2003, 01:29 PM

Not a chance. The Aquarius is NOT a high performance water cooling solution. IT simply does not have the resources to cool your CPU and something else. The radiator is WAY to small and you would never be able to keep the temps down. Also, you will not get super cool temps with it. It was made more for the people for who do not overclock, they are just looking for a way to quiet their PC's down.

MrPurple · October 25th, 2003, 01:56 PM

One more thing to consider when water cooling your Vid card. In most cards when you remove the HS from it, you also lose the HS on the RAM, thus you might be able to boost the core when OCing but you might lose stability due to the RAM temps running high.

Something to consider and prepare for.

MitaDC · October 25th, 2003, 02:06 PM

How can i avoid that? What water cooling kit do u recommend. I was looking at the Innovatek innovaSET3 or the Swiftech H20-22500. The innovatek is for socket 478 but i could find one for Socket A

MitaDC · October 25th, 2003, 02:07 PM

I was also looking at the Asetek WaterChill CPU Cooling Kit at http://xoxide.com/watcoolkit.html

MrPurple · October 25th, 2003, 02:34 PM

The problem is that pretty much all watercooling kits offer only the heat excange unit for the GPU. Look at your card and see if when you take of the HS from the GPU what is the condition of the RAM. If there is no HS on it after then you might want to purchase HS for the RAM.
Be warned, however that most Vidcards are designed so that the HS Fan provides some air flow onto the RAM HS to cool them.

I am not big on water cooling so there is not much more help I can offer you, asaide from providing some insight and potential pitfalls you might want to take into consideration before you implement any cooling solution

RCN_Moose · October 25th, 2003, 03:22 PM

I have the Swiftech 8500 series, same as the 22500 with a smaller radiator and it works fine w/ my Geforce 3 and P4 2.6C. The graphics card RAM is a big concern though. You might need to purchase seperate RAM sinks if your going to watercool the GPU, it will depend on how the heatsink is setup on your card. The only problem I have with the 8500 is the radiator is too small. I ordered the dual 120 radiator and should have it in a week or so to make a good comparison. (same one that the 22500 has)
Maze CPU and GPU waterblocks are also supposed to be very good. Check out Dangerden