Liquid Cooling

[Guest udoshia]

I have just installed new hardware in my old case. It is running real hot. Like a blow dryer in the hot setting. I have spent a couple of weeks reading reviews and I think what I want is either a case built with cooling installed or swiftech H20-120. The problem if I go with putting one in my exhisting case is running tubes from a top bay.

I have:

 

Case: Aopen HXO8 full tower case

Motherboard: Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500

Video Card: e-GeForce 6800 ultra 256MB DDR3 AGP 8X

Memory: 2, I GB DDR PC4000

[zigen]

i think the reason is that you have no intakes or exhausts (except the one above psu)

[The_WRATH]

for a water setup you certainly have lots of room to play with in your case, but you dont have any clutter in your case so it looks like you have fine airflow. my guess is that its just the hot air coming off of your cpu cooler and gfx card.

what you need isnt a water system, its just better cooling, and a means of getting the hot air out of the case like zigen said (intakes)

[kobalt]

A few fans well placed will get rid of your problem and wont cost you much

[E Fudd]

Get rid of the stock cpu cooler - check out this cooler

 

It seems to run 2 C cooler than the THERMALRIGHT XP-120 I had - believe it or

not and its alot easier to deal with

Edited May 22, 2005 by E Fudd

[fire_storm]

That cooler looks interesting to try.

[CoolMaster]

what cpu cooler is that, I cant read the text on it?

[bigears]

Coolermaster KHC-L91-U1 92mm.

 

It does look interesting. i might try that as well.

 

EDIT: just found this as well: Coolermaster Hyper6 KHC-V81 Cooler

[slayer2cool]

http://www.atruereview.com/gigabyte/index.php

 

i think the new gigabyte si-97 cooler rip off look alike should be dang cool to use..