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Originally Posted by kronchev
the whole point of watercooling is to attempt to keep your temps as low as possible, right? well what WC excels at is keeping your temps THE SAME no matter what. thats why us OCers like it, because aircooling solutions might have the same or lower idle temps, but throw some heat at them and they start to not be as effective. my idle temps are about 2C lower than my full load. taking my 600 mhz overclock off and the temps drop 1C, if at all. compare that to when we put my old chip that I'm talking about into my friends computer (exact same case, Lian Li PC601, same fan setup) with a Zalman 7000 Cu (best aircooler out there), his idle-underclocked temps were the same, but once we OC'd and loaded it he was a good 10-12C higher than I was/am.
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Most would say that the Best heatsink is the Thermalright SP-97 Socket A heatsink, Under load My cpu temp is 48c right now, That 7000 heatsink, If the Fan fails, Go buy a New heatsink as the Fan is not replaceable with a better fan or even a New one.
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