EBAY: My PC for sale!
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
That sounds like a pretty impressive machine but I can't afford it.
I'm not 100% sure that displaying the post code that it is currently located at is such a great idea though...!
Burglar 1: "Hmm, my PC isn't quick enough for the latest release of Throat Rippers of Planet Zarg!"
Burglar 2: "Never mind, I know where we can get one that is!"
I'm not 100% sure that displaying the post code that it is currently located at is such a great idea though...!
Burglar 1: "Hmm, my PC isn't quick enough for the latest release of Throat Rippers of Planet Zarg!"
Burglar 2: "Never mind, I know where we can get one that is!"
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
See - someone's even stolen your post code!bigfella said:
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Blummin 'eck...some horses under there......
Ben M
Senior Member
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- Chester/Oxford
nice rig, what're you planning on next? An i7 rig?
Normal computers have heatsinks attatched to the cpu. They're basically a block of metal the size and shape of the CPU, and great big tower with a fan strapped to it, and lots of fins, so they have a large surface area to dissipate all of the heat generated by the electrical components. A CPU with no heatsink on it will overheat in seconds, its small surface area just can't dissipate the heat quickly enough.
In watercooling, you have 5 main parts: blocks, pumps, radiators, tubing, reservoirs
The blocks attatch to the cpu (or graphics, or chipset), they have a base like that on a heatsink, and above that there are lots of narrow tubes where liquid passes through to take up the heat from the cpu.
A pump is pretty self explanitory, it moves the liquid around the system. Tubing is pretty obvious as well.
A radiator is like a car radiator (in fact early watercooling used car radiators) it's a load of tubes running up and down, again for large surface area. It dissipates the heat to the environment. For highest efficiency you strap fans to a radiator to move air over the fins.
Reservoirs are there for convenience really, they make it easier to fill the loop.
Watercooling is used because it is more efficient than air cooling.
User76 said:How doea the watercooling bit work
Normal computers have heatsinks attatched to the cpu. They're basically a block of metal the size and shape of the CPU, and great big tower with a fan strapped to it, and lots of fins, so they have a large surface area to dissipate all of the heat generated by the electrical components. A CPU with no heatsink on it will overheat in seconds, its small surface area just can't dissipate the heat quickly enough.
In watercooling, you have 5 main parts: blocks, pumps, radiators, tubing, reservoirs
The blocks attatch to the cpu (or graphics, or chipset), they have a base like that on a heatsink, and above that there are lots of narrow tubes where liquid passes through to take up the heat from the cpu.
A pump is pretty self explanitory, it moves the liquid around the system. Tubing is pretty obvious as well.
A radiator is like a car radiator (in fact early watercooling used car radiators) it's a load of tubes running up and down, again for large surface area. It dissipates the heat to the environment. For highest efficiency you strap fans to a radiator to move air over the fins.
Reservoirs are there for convenience really, they make it easier to fill the loop.
Watercooling is used because it is more efficient than air cooling.
Ben M
Senior Member
- Location
- Chester/Oxford
bigfella said:
But... where's the overclocking potential in a mortgage?
You know that you want to build yourself an i7 rig...
Ben M
Senior Member
- Location
- Chester/Oxford
Oh and a question about that rig... All you'd have needed for two loops would gave been another pump, as you already have two rads. With four watercooled components it would have improved temperatures significantly I'd have thought, as one pump running two double rads (so basically a quad rad) and four waterblocks must have real flow issues.
Ben M
Senior Member
- Location
- Chester/Oxford
User76 said:So it doesn't cool water for you to drink then, I was wondering where the tap was
sadly not. nothing involved is below ambient temperature. and you wouldn't want to drink all the UV reactive dyes and microbe-killing chemicals in the liquid.
