Liquid cooled rigs24 July 2012, 15:09 (10 months ago)
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Battelready838
Mineral oil is a terrible thing to use in a system.
The reason being is that... 1. It is a bad heat conductor compared to water 2. It has a high specific heat capacity meaning that it will hold more heat, and will not release it very easily when it gets to the radiator. I never know that lol, id probably only do a mineral oil PC for show
Honestly whats the point of cooled rigs? If you have a good computer in a well ventilated area, It should never over-heat and if it does than its getting old.
I have my Tower on 24-7 and because its so spacious, it never over-heats or even feels hot for that matter. My tv on the otherhand puts out more heat than a fridge Im cooling a quad core I7 extreme . The point of liquid cooling is the fact that your computer wont bottle-neck under high load, plus it makes it much quieter. Convectional air cooling on my video cards went up to 60-70c , but with liquid cooling, it never goes past 45c on 100% load. Mind you , 60 c is 140F
Last edited by Battelready838, 10 months ago VicBeatzMusik3211
Honestly whats the point of cooled rigs? If you have a good computer in a well ventilated area, It should never over-heat and if it does than its getting old.
I have my Tower on 24-7 and because its so spacious, it never over-heats or even feels hot for that matter. My tv on the otherhand puts out more heat than a fridge The point is maximum overclock and and/or reduced noise.
BTW, If you are using a newer CPU like Sandy or Ivy at stock frequency and mid-range graphics card or worse, than you are right there is no logic making it water cooled. Hell no need for fans either. 100% passive PC Last edited by cesmadj1945, 10 months ago Edferda689
my laptop reaches 80c when I am gaming LOL. And when i am surfing the web it is at least at 45-50c.
I can only guess it’s a gaming laptop. People prefer to buy thin and powerful laptops and many times that’s the problem, it’s VERY hard to cool a hi-end GPU and CPU in a thin chassis…
Look at Alienware machines they are so thick for a reason!Of course your problem might be something completely different. ![]() |










Look at Alienware machines they are so thick for a reason!
