Nazo
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Originally posted by Waddles
I've seen direct-die wc setups, where the water was touching the die directly, and if my memory serves the temperatures and heat transfer was astounding
Cool. Now give me one of those! Lol
Heh, seriously though, I guess there are troubles since water tends to mess up quite a lot of materials, especially metals. Anyway, according to that chart, water is 5.61 Watts/cm-°C versus silver being 4.18 Watts/cm-°C, which sounds like a small difference, but on such a heat sensitive thing, would have a huge effect, plus it adds up in a hurry anyway. (This is bearing in mind that the whole setup you mentioned was water cooled, where I'm just considering what would happen if you had water simply acting as the transfer from core to heatsink rather than paste, obviously in a full water cooled system you get better results.)
One of these days I have to get around to getting a water cooling system. I'd just love the extra ocing leeway you can get with that. Unfortunately, with this stupid palomino, it's just not worth it.