Silent Assasin
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So, lately I've been thinking about taking the plunge and dropping hte money for a water cooling system, but I have several questions.
1. First off, does water cooling really help that much with overheating problems and drop the temp of anything being cooled that much?
2. Does the cooling system drop the total temp of the system at all? I pretty much leave my computer running all the time and I've noticed that the summer heat really does effect my cpu/gpu temps. Durring the winter, when I can actually control the tempeture in my room, the cpu temp drops to an average of 40degreeC and right now it's running at about 46degreeC. I noticed it jumped to 54 after several hours of bf2 though.... But anyway, durring the summer, my computer really makes my entire room extremely hot.... Would the water pump create just as much heat as my current fans pump out? I've noticed that most pumps/resoviors have 2 120mm fans on them, that's startin to tell me that using water cooling isn't going to help me with room temps.
3. I've also heard that water cooling systems reduce noise from less fans running, but yet again, the 2 120mm beg me to differ.... The noise isn't my top concerne though.
My current setup has 5x 80mm fans, stock A64 HS fan(the big noisemaker at >4000rpm), and my stock fan on my x800Pro.
What I'm looking at is a complete cooling system from Koolance which comes out to a total of about $405. That includes pump/resivoir, gpu cooler, and cpu cooler.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16835127006
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811155986
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16835127002
Does this price seem fair for a cooling system? And would I be sastified as far as my questions go?
1. First off, does water cooling really help that much with overheating problems and drop the temp of anything being cooled that much?
2. Does the cooling system drop the total temp of the system at all? I pretty much leave my computer running all the time and I've noticed that the summer heat really does effect my cpu/gpu temps. Durring the winter, when I can actually control the tempeture in my room, the cpu temp drops to an average of 40degreeC and right now it's running at about 46degreeC. I noticed it jumped to 54 after several hours of bf2 though.... But anyway, durring the summer, my computer really makes my entire room extremely hot.... Would the water pump create just as much heat as my current fans pump out? I've noticed that most pumps/resoviors have 2 120mm fans on them, that's startin to tell me that using water cooling isn't going to help me with room temps.
3. I've also heard that water cooling systems reduce noise from less fans running, but yet again, the 2 120mm beg me to differ.... The noise isn't my top concerne though.
My current setup has 5x 80mm fans, stock A64 HS fan(the big noisemaker at >4000rpm), and my stock fan on my x800Pro.
What I'm looking at is a complete cooling system from Koolance which comes out to a total of about $405. That includes pump/resivoir, gpu cooler, and cpu cooler.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16835127006
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811155986
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16835127002
Does this price seem fair for a cooling system? And would I be sastified as far as my questions go?