Been looking into water cooling, got a simple question

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RancidWAnnaRIot

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Do people ever just cool the CPU alone? Most systems i've seen usually cool the NB,vid card, and CPU. or NB and CPU, or just Vid card and CPU.

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I'm pretty sure that kronchev just cools his CPU. I'm going to be selling my northbridge block pretty soon and just cooling my cpu as well. :)
 
RancidWAnnaRIot said:
Do people ever just cool the CPU alone? Most systems i've seen usually cool the NB,vid card, and CPU. or NB and CPU, or just Vid card and CPU.

Thanks
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Yes, I do. I'd say a large portion of people only cool the CPU.
 
Tons of people cool only their CPU. It is the most crucial thing to watercool. I started with a CPU only watercooling setup and I'm now expanding it to my videocard and northbridge. It all depends on your needs.
 
i only cool my cpu, i never thought about doing anything more. maybe once i upgrade to a new mobo and vid card i might consider it but probably not. i dont mind noise too much but a lot just isnt acceptable, which is why i went watercooling in the first place.

if anybody remembers the FOP38, that is the reason why i switch to h2o cooling :cool:
 
RedTalon19 said:
i only cool my cpu, i never thought about doing anything more. maybe once i upgrade to a new mobo and vid card i might consider it but probably not. i dont mind noise too much but a lot just isnt acceptable, which is why i went watercooling in the first place.

if anybody remembers the FOP38, that is the reason why i switch to h2o cooling :cool:
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I still have the FOP38. Actually, I got the FOP32-1 but just added a Delta on later to make it into a FOP38. The clip to attach it to the socket ended up breaking so the heatsink is just sitting around right now. At one time I used a clip from a heatsink for an old Pentium and slapped it on the K6-2 I had for a while. Kept the processor nice and cool. Good thing too since one time I forgot to plug in the fan for the heatsink. Ended up locking up the machine but nothing was damaged.

Oh yeah, I only cool my CPU also. Not worth watercooling a Radeon 8500 at this point. Also, chipset coolers have a tendancy to be really restrictive on flow and I doubt one would help me much more than just putting a fan on the chipset heatsink.
 
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