Best cooling

[shadowbreaker513]

I'm starting to consider overclocking my processor, and a heavier video card overclock. I was wondering what would be the best possible cooling for this. If I could find a safe water cooling system, should I go for it? Also would overclocking void my warrenty?


P.S. I wasn't sure which section to put this in but because the main question was in reference to cooling I put it in here.

[the 6th jackson]

You could go with a water cooling system but I always find sticking with what you know best. If your case has extra fan slots not filled then use those first and fill them all up. I believe you could cool that system with fans but you would have to have I'd say about 5 or so, maybe more. It's really up to you.

You could also try more powerful fans, and make sure the fans are blowing and intaking air in a correct manner, bringing cool air in and blowing warm air out.

[flanzig1]

You could start with an after market HSU from Thermaltake or Zalman then go from there to the specialty heatsinks for the GPU, ram,chipsets,etc.

[Yuanji]

thermalright usually makes the best OCing heatsinks albeit expensive and usually pretty heavy. how much money would you spend on a cooling system? usually, a bad watercooled system isn't any better then a good heatsink.

[shadowbreaker513]

Right now I'm looking for an identical fan to the one I have now in front so I have a pair of fans sucking air in, I have a 80mm fan on the side, and I have an Enermax exhaust blower fan to blow air out the back. My idling cpu temp is about 93 and mobo about 85. While encoding a dvd, my cpu gets up to about 114 and my mobo up to about 95. This is with my stock heatsink. Should I go for water or just get more fans?

[Yuanji]

a good water cooling kit costs quite a bit. what MoBo and CPU do you wanna OC? it might be better to spend money on a good heatsink + good overclocking MoBo and CPU rather then spending it all on a water kit. there's more to OCing then temps.

[shadowbreaker513]

I want to overclock the CPU I have now and on the mobo I have now, if possible. And by good, I meant one that won't leak and ruin my system. Also would overclocking void my warrenty?

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

Yes. At least on the CPU, if not some other parts as well (Some manafctures could try to void the warrantly due to overclocking, even if the parts are not directly being oc'ed.)

[shadowbreaker513]

Mabye I'll just forget about it then. I don't want to have to have it screw up and not be able to use my computer

[Yuanji]

heh... so soon to back away? if you don't want to it's ok. your motherboard probably wouldn't do a good OC anyways. the nforce boards seem to be much better OCers then the Via ones. you could probably do 20FSB overclock at best.

[Hi Ho]

Actually the VIA Athlon 64 chipsets are very good overclockers from what I have read. They are neck and neck with the Nforce chipsets.

[Yuanji]

ohhh that's a K8V, i thought it was an A8V in which case, i believe that the A8V was a horrible OCing board. not too sure about the K8V. he'd be better off with a MSI board for OCing though.

[bailey]

probly not what your looking for, but when the need for zero down-time is at the upmost importance like a big mfg, company, the room where the computers and servers are keep, the room tempeture is matained at 65 deg, and everything is keep cool.

[shadowbreaker513]

Originally Posted by bailey probly not what your looking for, but when the need for zero down-time is at the upmost importance like a big mfg, company, the room where the computers and servers are keep, the room tempeture is matained at 65 deg, and everything is keep cool.

My computer room hits about 45-50F in the dead of winter and no hotter than 75 in the summer so I think the room temp is ok. I actually use my computer as a heater it can get so cold