Well after much consideration I went out today and purchased a Thermaltake Bigwater 750is. It is what is it, a replacement for a noisy Zalman Zxxxx 15 1/2 lbs air cooler I'm not looking to achieve a 4ghz OC with a simple 120mm cooler, water or air.
Installation was fairly simple, although a problem with a leak took a few hours to find and fix (gg teflon tape). Have been up and running for a few hours now.
I've begun the process of attempting to OC my computer now. Max I was able to do on air was about a 3.2ghz on my Q6600. I figured I could probably do the same with water cooling. I was wrong.
What is happening is that when I run a CPU test (Orthos), temperatures start at about 35*C, but quickly rocket up to 50*C and slowly climb from there. When I say rocket, I mean they get to around 50 in about 5 seconds. As soon as I stop the test the cores go back to their normal (35*C) within no less than 5 seconds. This never happened on air cooling. I've double and triple checked that there is enough article silver around the cpu, and that it is making contact with the cpu, but I can't escape the nagging feeling I'm doing something wrong or missing something!
Any suggestions are welcome!
Installation was fairly simple, although a problem with a leak took a few hours to find and fix (gg teflon tape). Have been up and running for a few hours now.
I've begun the process of attempting to OC my computer now. Max I was able to do on air was about a 3.2ghz on my Q6600. I figured I could probably do the same with water cooling. I was wrong.
What is happening is that when I run a CPU test (Orthos), temperatures start at about 35*C, but quickly rocket up to 50*C and slowly climb from there. When I say rocket, I mean they get to around 50 in about 5 seconds. As soon as I stop the test the cores go back to their normal (35*C) within no less than 5 seconds. This never happened on air cooling. I've double and triple checked that there is enough article silver around the cpu, and that it is making contact with the cpu, but I can't escape the nagging feeling I'm doing something wrong or missing something!
Any suggestions are welcome!