ive always wanted a watercooling system but they always seem to come with large equipment outside of the case :/
Get yourself a big enough case and you can put it all in it with ease.
You can also get small kits that perform well also. The $200 Swiftech kit will mount in any case that has a 120mm fan and a open 5.25" bay.
That would be enough to cool the CPU, VRegs, and Chipsets. You don't need double or triple rads until you get into video card cooling.
does dry ice at -96 constant sound nice??
Stop posting random shit. This is your last warning. Do some bloody research before posting things!
The same problem with d. ice as you have with liquid nitrogen.
You'll constantly have to fill it. It's expensive. And it emits gases that will suffocate you if you are in an unventilated room. And it's just a pain to use. No one uses unless they want to break world records with overclocking.
A high end cascade is the best cooling you can get for a computer. It involves a AC/fridge compressor cooling another AC/fridge compressor which is attached to the CPU. A well made one will get you about -100c temps. Though it will also draw about 800w of power and cost you a grand to buy.
The next best thing would be a single stage phase change cooler which gets about -30c. Basically a cascade is a phase change cooler that cools another one. So put to and two together and a single stage is just one compressor. But yet again it'll cost you about $400 for a custom made one or $800-900 for a mass produced one. And it will also drain about 300-400w of power.
Next best thing is TEC cooling. Which will get you about 0c to 5c temps based on how well you cool it. They are highly in efficient as they will use just as much power as a phase change cooler but produce worse results. They work by sending a DC current though a pelter and one side gets very hot while the other side gets very cold. So you'll have to cool the hot side which is most of the time by normal water cooling. Since air cooling wont do a good enough job. (The air cooled TEC units that are being sold now only use a very weak TEC to adjust the temp of the air thats cooling the fins.)
Then you have water cooling. The best water cooling can do is room temp. But there are many benefits to it. You don't have to worry about condensation destroying your computer. As you will with the other forms of cooling. It is much more silent as it don't rely on noisy compressors. And it takes up less space. The downside of it is that it's expensive. A good water cooling kit will cost as much as a custom built phase change cooler, but it still remains silent compared to it and does keep your computer at room temp.
For me it's about performance to silence ratio. And with water cooling it's the best option. Sure by adding TEC's to the water loop will make it better but then I'll have to worry about condensation which making it condensation proofed involves lots of messy jell and a lot of prep work. Water is just simple and gets the job done very well and very quiet.
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