Water Cooling Help!

[XxDaRkReAp3rxXdOtCoM]

Ok, I'm on the danger den site and i'm checkin out their custom watercooling systems and I see some stuff that I have no idea what it is.
Fans [What the hell I need these for? This is water cooling!!!]
Peltier/TEC [No clue]
Hold Down Style [??]
Danger Den Fillport [?]
Hose clamp's and Y/T fitting. What is all this stuff for?

 

[nealio]

Ok, I'm on the danger den site and i'm checkin out their custom watercooling systems and I see some stuff that I have no idea what it is.
Fans [What the hell I need these for? This is water cooling!!!]
Peltier/TEC [No clue]
Hold Down Style [??]
Danger Den Fillport [?]
Hose clamp's and Y/T fitting. What is all this stuff for?

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1) you can use passive cooling with a WC set up, but you would have a much larger heat dissipating device

2) its a type of water block for your cpu that can use electricity to cool your block down even more than water can. It give a hot on one side where the water is, and a very cool effect on the side of the processor. If you search around there is some good reads in here and www.hardocp.com

3) Not really sure what this is referring to, maybe the type shroud to hold the fans on the rad

4) The filports can be used instead of a reservoir, but they take some time to get the air bleed

5) you need hose clamps to clamp down your hose onto your waterblocks/pumps/res/
Y adapters are for slitting hose connections for either 3 port water blocks or T fittings are for the filports.

 

[ikellensbro]

Slow down, go do some research (search through the Water Cooling sub-forum, as well as other sites, Overclockers.com's water cooling section has tons of stuff), then start searching through components. I'm bored so I'll answer your questions anyway, if they might help you (eventually) or someone else:

1) Water cooling almost always uses a radiator to dissipate the heat from whatever components are being cooled, so fans are usually used to more the heat. If you use a large radiator, you can run passively, but you will see lower temperatures using fans. Water cooling is superior to air cooling in that it uses a larger heat exchanger to dissipate the heat (among other advantages), so slower, quieter fans can be used (many still us Deltas, you can see better temperatures with the right radiator and high cfm fans).

2) Peltiers, or TECs, use the Peltier effect to use a lo of electricity to make one side of the unit hot, while the other side becomes cold. The better you cool the hot side, the colder the cold side gets, so water cooling is most often used to cool peltiers. Since you know very little about water cooling and peltiers, don't use them. If you really want to, get a loop, and after a year or when you have a lot more experience, think about peltiers.

3) Hold down style is the mounting style for holding the waterblock to the processor (in this case). Some motherboards don't have mounting holes, so you would have to use a special mount that uses the cpu socket to hold the block onto the processor. If your motherboard doesn't have mounting holes, then you should probably be looking to spen your money on a new mobo instead of a loop.

4) The DD fillport is used in T-lines, reservoirs, or radiators to allow access to the water inside, or to cap that area. Don't worry about them, unless you want to use one for a T-line, or you have some modding ideas for it.

5) ^What nealio said, hose clamps are used to make sure tubing stays onto barbs, you can get by without them, but they are a pretty cheap form of additional security.

 

[Talonz]

Like ikellensbro said, you really need to slow down and read up on what you're getting into. Here is the link to the watercooling forums here:

http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=91

A proper setup requires a good amount of planning time, you won't be able to toss it together in an hour.