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Joe · 09-14-2006, 08:48 AM

increased MTBF on a vid card or CPU just from cooling? Whens the last time you had a video card, or CPU just die cause they wore out? Ive seen vid cards die from bad caps, or other failures, but never just die caue they were warm. the MTBF on the silicon components is quite high... higher than almost anything else in a PC.

A good CPU fan and sink will last maintenance free for many years... and if it does fail... you replace it with another 10$ fan. Almost every CPU/Motherboard has thermal shutdown thresholds, and protection in the CPU's against firey death if a fan fails on a HSF.

Pretty much the only place I could see H2O cooling increasing MTBF would be on HD's. The cooler you can keep a hot drive ( a 15K SCSI for example) the better spindle life you will get.

09-14-2006, 08:48 AM	#57
Joe The Pro/Life Support System Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 4,041	Re: watercooling lost its magic increased MTBF on a vid card or CPU just from cooling? Whens the last time you had a video card, or CPU just die cause they wore out? Ive seen vid cards die from bad caps, or other failures, but never just die caue they were warm. the MTBF on the silicon components is quite high... higher than almost anything else in a PC. A good CPU fan and sink will last maintenance free for many years... and if it does fail... you replace it with another 10$ fan. Almost every CPU/Motherboard has thermal shutdown thresholds, and protection in the CPU's against firey death if a fan fails on a HSF. Pretty much the only place I could see H2O cooling increasing MTBF would be on HD's. The cooler you can keep a hot drive ( a 15K SCSI for example) the better spindle life you will get. __________________ Joe - I only take this hat off for one thing... ProCooling archive curator and dusty skeleton.