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PolarFlo

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Keetha

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Why do people seem to rarely talk about PolarFlo waterblocks? Do they suck or something? They look real nice and have a decent price IMO.
 
I'm not sure why either. I had a Polarflo block on my system for a while and it did pertty good. Anyway, I a lot of reviews were saying how great the Swiftech 6002 were, so I thought I'd give one a try. I replaced my Polarflo and my CPU temp went up 2c, I thought that it might have been a bad install so I tried it again. When I removed the block and checked for good contact, the Swiftech was making perfect contact. I reinstalled the block and the temps stated where they were the first time. To make a long story short, the Polarflo is going back on my system and to he!! with what other people are saying. I know the block works better on my system compaired to the Swifty 6002............. :eek:
 
I have one and it totally rocks!! Looks awesome too. In my opinion its the best looking waterblock
 
From what I've read they are pretty much neck and neck with the Swiftech 6 series. If I was at home, I'd post a link to verify this. Not a huge difference but evidently Bio-H was able to see a difference. They definately look a ton better than the Swiftech 6 series... they should have stuck with the look of the 5 series! I also wonder why more people don't use/review PolarFlo, they perform great and look top notch.

What kind of monitoring program/tool do you use to monitor temps Bio-H?
 
Well, if I find a suitcase full of money laying around, I'll buy PolarFlo set-up and let you all know how it works :).
 
bellevegasj said:
From what I've read they are pretty much neck and neck with the Swiftech 6 series. If I was at home, I'd post a link to verify this. Not a huge difference but evidently Bio-H was able to see a difference. They definately look a ton better than the Swiftech 6 series... they should have stuck with the look of the 5 series! I also wonder why more people don't use/review PolarFlo, they perform great and look top notch.

What kind of monitoring program/tool do you use to monitor temps Bio-H?
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I was using MBM 5370 with the latest Abit NF7-S bios. It's not the most exact wat to check temps, but it's the best I can do with what I've got........ :eek: From what everything I've read, Abit NF7 temps are reported pretty high.
 
With the Polarflo CPU and GPU block installed, the CPU temp was normally reported 9-10c above case temp at idle. With the Swiftech 6002, the idle temps are 10-11c higher. With both blocks there is only a differance of 4c between load and idle. So they work pretty much even in that aspect.
 
10-11c is a huge difference, but I guess load is all that matters. Not sure. That does sound really high though.
 
From what I've been reading it falls pretty much inline with the temps that I should be getting. Overclockers water cooling temp info page explains it pretty well as to what temps you should expect out of your system.

The air temp going INTO the heatsink or radiator fan is the floor - all other temps you see are added onto this temp. If the air temp is 35 or 40C going into the fan, then there is NO WAY this heatsink will give you 40C at the CPU. The following table lays out what to expect for a 100 watt CPU:


To calculate what to expect for other CPUs, for every watt the CPU radiates, the heatsink will cool the core by the (C/W x watts) plus ambient temp. For example, at a fan inlet temp of 25 C, a C/W of 0.25 with a CPU radiating 50 watts means that the CPU temp will be 50 x 0.25 = 12.5 C over ambient temp, or 37.5 C.

It's a pretty good read. Check it out:

http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/

This is one reason why I laugh so much when I read some peoples extreamly low temps that they post. With a normal water cooling system, there is no way that they can get extreamly low temps ( close to ambient temp) in a high OC'd system.
 
The P4 thermal diode does not report the CPU die temperature at all.

It reports the case temperature, or basically the temperature of the PCB that the CPU is attached to.

Intel's documentational white papers on the P4 go on to say that there a second thermal diode that actually monitors the actual CPU die temperature and controls the thermal operations (throttling/shutdown) of the CPU.

The temperature diode that we read, by Intel's own admission, cannot be used to guage the actual temperature of the die.

P4's consequentially really are quite bad for the purpose of distingushing between different heatsinks/waterblocks as the temperature being measured is not the actual die temperature, nor is it anything like the actual die temperature.
 
According to their website a set of TT blocks from Polarflo (CPU/Chipset/GPU) are $129. That doesn't seem to be an extreme price at all and from everything I have read these are some of the best performing blocks around and certainly the best looking. I plan to use them.
 
astolpho said:
According to their website a set of TT blocks from Polarflo (CPU/Chipset/GPU) are $129. That doesn't seem to be an extreme price at all and from everything I have read these are some of the best performing blocks around and certainly the best looking. I plan to use them.
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Thats a pretty good deal. You might want to check frozencpu.com Thats where I got mine. If you get the chrome please take pictures! :D
 
Krazy_Joe said:
Thats a pretty good deal. You might want to check frozencpu.com Thats where I got mine. If you get the chrome please take pictures! :D
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Don't buy it from frozencpu.com. I just ordered a cpu and gpu block from them. They forwarded the order to polarflo and polarflo mailed me the parts.:confused: Cut out the middle man. The TT's are awesome. Looks great and running fine.
 
I was looking at frozenCPU.com's Dangerden line and their prices were the exact same as on Dangerden.com. So I checked their Polarflo pricing and their price on the polarflo TTs (except chrome) $58.99, polarflo.com's price on their TTs $59.99 so buying it from frozencpu.com doesnt make much diff price wise as they seem to follow the MSRP exactly or even under a buck.

Im finalizing what parts Im gonna get for my new setup.was looking at Dangerden RBX but those polarflos are sooo sweet and slightly better performance, makes it an easy choice. My comp interior is all red and those red TTs..damn sexy.
 
You can modify the mounting plate to fit onto a socket 462. Just requires drilling a couple of holes and probably cutting the extra.
 
As near as I can tell, it's not just about modifying the mounting plate. The base on these things are so big that it doesn't appear like it will clear the cam box on the socket. All sockets besides 462 use a CPU with a heat spreader. The heat spreader raises the hieght of everything so the WB can clear the cam box.
 
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