New to Watercooling-Koolance Exos

mentyl · 28-February-04, 12:34 PM

I just bought a koolance exos water kooler kit and was wondering about the advantages of all the extras.I got the cpu coller and the hard drive cooler.I dont have that big of a heat problem yet but I'm still pushing it to the limits.I just dont want to blow money on a mobo cooler, second hard drive cooler, chipset cooler and so on.Just wanted too see if someone has used this and noticed any gains.

Arkangyl · 28-February-04, 12:41 PM

The northy (mobo) cooler really isn't needed unless you're going for silent running; stock northy coolers or the 3rd party coolers work well enough. Really the HD coolers arn't needed unless you're using a Raptor drive or, again, are going for the silent rig.

The GPU (video card) cooler on the other hand would give you a nice little boost on your GPU OC...

mentyl · 28-February-04, 12:45 PM

I forgot to mention when I Fold on this comp my tempuratures start to get pretty warm 53c on the asus utility so about 56c actual.

mentyl · 28-February-04, 12:47 PM

hey thanks, thats what I heard as far as oc my vid card so that would be a good extra.

putwig · 28-February-04, 12:48 PM

I agree.

I would likely not water cool northbridges or HDDs (even raptors), unless you are purely going for pimp value.

Edit: try Motherboard monitor instead of Asus Probe.

Telling us temps without including the processor type, ambient temp, and whether or not it is overclocked ......... pretty useless.

Arkangyl · 28-February-04, 01:19 PM

He's got an Athlon 2600+ @ 2.5ghz according to his sig (PITA to read...)

Ambient would be nice though... with that OC however I'd remove the HD waterblock and think alot before I add a GPU; with an Exos anyways. Those temps are pretty high for watercooling and IMO if you add a GPU block watch the temps because they will go up.

putwig · 28-February-04, 01:35 PM

Generally, you would be right.

However, in my Koolance review ..... the addition of the GPU-180 waterblock had almost no effect on CPU cooling.

mentyl · 28-February-04, 07:44 PM

Sorry I had to go for a while.Yea I think my asus temp monitor is way off cause when I go to bios mobo temps at 15c and cpu is at 42c ive got more tweaking to do but like I said new to water kooling and oh yea The readout of the cpu block on the koolance is 29 and room temp is 73F(girlfriend gets cold when it snows outside)and putwig your article is the reason I bought the Koolance as a nOOb is cuz your article

mentyl · 28-February-04, 07:50 PM

Yea I'll be more specific I think my sig is hard to read but right now I'm oc'ed with a barton core athalon 2600+ with 200mhz fsb and 12.5 multi.and yes I am going for full pimp value

mentyl · 28-February-04, 08:40 PM

Oh and I dont have a way to measure ambient temps unless there is some home method

Arkangyl · 28-February-04, 08:48 PM

Well for full pimp value then you need to WC everything, take a look at the link below, pure pimpness (even though he isn't a PR member)

http://www.zerofanzone.co.uk/
http://www.zerofanzone.co.uk/specs.asp

Kage · 28-February-04, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mentyl


	Oh and I dont have a way to measure ambient temps unless there is some home method

Ambient temp is room temp. Since you already stated it, there you have it.

mentyl · 28-February-04, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kage


	Ambient temp is room temp. Since you already stated it, there you have it.

well dont I feel like A dumba*% nOOb

Red02 · 28-February-04, 09:41 PM

I would suggest getting a thermal probe on your cpu and using an lcd to get a read out of it. That is the only real accurate way your going to get a reading. What I use to get ambient is, I have a thermometer (spelling) on the wall (easy enough

).

mentyl · 29-February-04, 12:44 AM

Okay I went and bought a Fluke 65 meter with infared temp sensor cuz it pissed me off that nothing was reading accurate as I wanted it to be so my temps are Ambient 71.7f, on cpu 44.2c, mobo19.9, radeon 9800 55c, but after doing alot of reading I want the pimped out look to match my new uv green acrylic case but to I want to see if I'm losing my performance by getting to much pimp i dont want to sacrifice perf for pimp no what I mean.

28-February-04, 12:34 PM		#1 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	New to Watercooling-Koolance Exos I just bought a koolance exos water kooler kit and was wondering about the advantages of all the extras.I got the cpu coller and the hard drive cooler.I dont have that big of a heat problem yet but I'm still pushing it to the limits.I just dont want to blow money on a mobo cooler, second hard drive cooler, chipset cooler and so on.Just wanted too see if someone has used this and noticed any gains.

28-February-04, 12:45 PM		#3 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	Oh Yea I forgot to mention when I Fold on this comp my tempuratures start to get pretty warm 53c on the asus utility so about 56c actual.

28-February-04, 07:44 PM		#8 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	Sorry I had to go for a while.Yea I think my asus temp monitor is way off cause when I go to bios mobo temps at 15c and cpu is at 42c ive got more tweaking to do but like I said new to water kooling and oh yea The readout of the cpu block on the koolance is 29 and room temp is 73F(girlfriend gets cold when it snows outside)and putwig your article is the reason I bought the Koolance as a nOOb is cuz your article Last edited by mentyl; 28-February-04 at 08:19 PM.. Reason: forgot info

28-February-04, 08:40 PM		#10 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	Full pimp value Oh and I dont have a way to measure ambient temps unless there is some home method

29-February-04, 12:44 AM		#15 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	pimped out kooling Okay I went and bought a Fluke 65 meter with infared temp sensor cuz it pissed me off that nothing was reading accurate as I wanted it to be so my temps are Ambient 71.7f, on cpu 44.2c, mobo19.9, radeon 9800 55c, but after doing alot of reading I want the pimped out look to match my new uv green acrylic case but to I want to see if I'm losing my performance by getting to much pimp i dont want to sacrifice perf for pimp no what I mean.

28-February-04, 12:41 PM		#2 (permalink)
Arkangyl Hoe-lier than Thou	The northy (mobo) cooler really isn't needed unless you're going for silent running; stock northy coolers or the 3rd party coolers work well enough. Really the HD coolers arn't needed unless you're using a Raptor drive or, again, are going for the silent rig. The GPU (video card) cooler on the other hand would give you a nice little boost on your GPU OC...

28-February-04, 12:47 PM		#4 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	hey thanks, thats what I heard as far as oc my vid card so that would be a good extra.

28-February-04, 12:48 PM		#5 (permalink)
putwig Dr. Hydro Pimp	I agree. I would likely not water cool northbridges or HDDs (even raptors), unless you are purely going for pimp value. Edit: try Motherboard monitor instead of Asus Probe. Telling us temps without including the processor type, ambient temp, and whether or not it is overclocked ......... pretty useless.

28-February-04, 01:19 PM		#6 (permalink)
Arkangyl Hoe-lier than Thou	He's got an Athlon 2600+ @ 2.5ghz according to his sig (PITA to read...) Ambient would be nice though... with that OC however I'd remove the HD waterblock and think alot before I add a GPU; with an Exos anyways. Those temps are pretty high for watercooling and IMO if you add a GPU block watch the temps because they will go up.

28-February-04, 01:35 PM		#7 (permalink)
putwig Dr. Hydro Pimp	Generally, you would be right. However, in my Koolance review ..... the addition of the GPU-180 waterblock had almost no effect on CPU cooling.

28-February-04, 07:50 PM		#9 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	Yea I'll be more specific I think my sig is hard to read but right now I'm oc'ed with a barton core athalon 2600+ with 200mhz fsb and 12.5 multi.and yes I am going for full pimp value

28-February-04, 08:48 PM		#11 (permalink)
Arkangyl Hoe-lier than Thou	Well for full pimp value then you need to WC everything, take a look at the link below, pure pimpness (even though he isn't a PR member) http://www.zerofanzone.co.uk/ http://www.zerofanzone.co.uk/specs.asp

28-February-04, 09:41 PM		#14 (permalink)
Red02 Freck-hoe-d	I would suggest getting a thermal probe on your cpu and using an lcd to get a read out of it. That is the only real accurate way your going to get a reading. What I use to get ambient is, I have a thermometer (spelling) on the wall (easy enough ).

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