What do I go for?

[TonyG]

For a while now I have been considering watercooling"My Slow Machine"now I have the case temperature down due to changing the stock coolers on the XFX 8800GTs.I want to watercool the CPU AMD Althon 6000 X2,but what components do I go for?

Single or Double rad including fans.

Pump and Reservoir combi or single components.

CPU Waterblock.

Tubing and size.

Anything else.

Any advise most welcome.

 

[Luigi]

For a while now I have been considering watercooling"My Slow Machine"now I have the case temperature down due to changing the stock coolers on the XFX 8800GTs.I want to watercool the CPU AMD Althon 6000 X2,but what components do I go for?

Single or Double rad including fans.

Pump and Reservoir combi or single components.

CPU Waterblock.

Tubing and size.

Anything else.

Any advise most welcome.

Is it really worth it? For the price of water cooling you could go phenom II + HSF?

 

[TonyG]

Would I need to upgrade Motherboard for the Phenom II?

 

[Luigi]

Would I need to upgrade Motherboard for the Phenom II?

If your motherboard is AM2+ then a bios Update should do.

 

[TonyG]

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[Luigi]

that should work... You need to goto asus.com and see if there is a phen II bios update or something.

 

[TonyG]

Last time I tried to update the bios it failed.

 

[premiumgfx]

You can go here to check for BIOS updates:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

 

[TonyG]

Asus site doesnt like Firefox

 

[zak4994]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

^ Go there. Use that add-on. It makes websites think you are using IE7. I even did my windows updates through that when I was still on XP.

 

[monkey7]

Wooh thanks for that addon Installing now.

 

[largon]

You can't go wrong with going watercooling, either.

I've been under water since spring 2005 and can't complain - I've done only one upgrade (or rather, complete overhaul) since then. Been running the same setup* since middle of 2007 and performance is still top notch, I reckon I will have no "need" to upgrade for years since I can make my own mounting plates for the blocks so compatibility won't be a problem even if sockets and mounting holes change.

*

dTEK Fuzion

Swiftech MCW60 (retrofitted with an Apogee GT baseplate)

Thermochill PA120.3

Laing DDC 9W

3× Yate-Loon D12SL-12

Tygon & Masterkleer 7/16" tubes