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Cooling Suggestions?

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bound4h

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I am looking into purchasing a liquid cooling kit for my Desktop and would like to know the differences, if any, in regards to the medium used (water, coolant, liquid nitrogen, etc.)

Which is best, worst, most expensive? If anyone has any suggestions or reviews for these types of cooling kits please post, I would love your input.

Price is not really a concern at this point- but I do want to get what I pay for.

System specs:

Asus SK8V, VIA K8T800
AMD Athlon FX-53 940-pin w/ AS5
OCZ 1GB PC3200 DDR400 Registered/ECC
eVGA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB AGP8x
120GB Western Digital HDD @7200rpm
Enermax EG495P-VE SFMA
MGE Quantom Case
48x CD-R/RW
52X CD-ROM

Thanks for all your help in advance.

Mike
 
Well there really is only one medium for a liquid cooled system, and that is water. Liquid Nitrogen doesn't really count, and is not feasible for anything other than a quick overclock. The reason being that the LN2 quickly evaporates, meaning that you have to constantly refill it from one of those jugs (forgot what exactly they were called). Also with LN2 you have condensation to worry about.

If you want some extreme cooling you can go with a phase change cooling system like the Vapochill. That will provide you with subzero temperatures, again condensation is an issue.

And Finally the third most common solution is a liquid cooled system, but having a peltier on the cpu to also provide sub ambient, and even sub zero temperatures to the cpu core. This requires not only a peltier and condensation protection, but also an auxiliary power supply to power the peltier (in most all cases).
 
Erasmus354 said:
And Finally the third most common solution is a liquid cooled system, but having a peltier on the cpu to also provide sub ambient, and even sub zero temperatures to the cpu core. This requires not only a peltier and condensation protection, but also an auxiliary power supply to power the peltier (in most all cases).
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... fourth one. Water chiller cooling. Depending on how low you get the water, you'll also have to worry about condensation/etc.
 
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