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General Liquid/Water Cooling Discussion For discussion about Full Cooling System kits, or general cooling topics. Keep specific cooling items like pumps, radiators, etc... in their specific forums. |
View Poll Results: Which block will perform better on a hi-flow 1/2" setup? | |||
Sidewinder TC-4 | 39 | 66.10% | |
GeminiCool "high flow" | 20 | 33.90% | |
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03-30-2002, 09:35 AM | #51 | |
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03-30-2002, 11:25 AM | #52 | |
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03-30-2002, 12:07 PM | #53 |
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but I can't wait! I need a block NOW to start watercooling!
anyway..the poll shows 4:3 so minus that one that I voted for the sidewinder..that leaves me with an even split of opinions..argh.. |
03-30-2002, 01:18 PM | #54 |
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more votes please!!
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03-30-2002, 02:53 PM | #55 |
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I think its unfair to put these 2 blocks in a poll like this.
they were designed for each end of the water cooling spectrum. ABLAZE I think U should first consider what you want you water cooling rig for. Do you want quiet with a small overclock, then the gemini block would be good for you. But if you want high heat loads, lots of water flow, and the pelt option later down the road, then between the 2 blocks, the tc-4 is the one for U. Its all a matter of what you want out of the system as a hole.
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also another thing to think about. Is your setup going to in a small case? 1/2 in hoses dont like to bend alot. Where as 1/4 or 3/8 hoses dont mind and wont kink on the hard bends. I know my hoses would kink before I wrapped with with wire ties to keep them open. I to my self have thought about going to 3/8 hoses.
more food for thought.
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03-30-2002, 06:17 PM | #59 |
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i just cant get behind the gemini block...nobody designs a block for low flow with plastic fittings (and a down right aweful busniess tac imo)
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I think the block is great. Its beautiful, small, preforms well.
I am gonna use it in a machine, most defonitly. its a nice peice of work for what its purpose is. And desivers the respect for that.
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After running Prime95 for 4 hours my cpu temps were 35c. My ambient case temps were 20c and my idled cpu temps were 30c. My vote is for the Gemini High Volume Block. Update on this post. I was using a t-bird 1.4 @1534.
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03-31-2002, 01:48 PM | #64 |
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how about you just buy both blocks ablaze?
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sooo many choices.....so little money
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04-01-2002, 06:15 AM | #67 |
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well i gotta say that watercooling is getting to the stage where there are a few excellent blocks around, so excellent that i think they are getting close to the limits of straight watercooling. just that some acheive this limit with less flow that others (ie a gemini normal channel)... which is why unless you want to use pelts i think the gemini is an excellent block, as it dosent require a huge pump (1048 is sufficent), looks pretty cool i think and isnt gonna fall off the cpu due to a massive weight... one thing against the gemini though is that with less copper should the pump fail i would imagine there is a greater chance of cooking your cpu, as some of the bigger blocks have been reported to keep a cpu below 60 degrees C idle temps when the pump fails (not a big problem with pumps like eheim obviously)
considering youve already got a massive 1060 i think you could put a lump of lead on you cpu, drill a hole through it, put on some barbs and still get good temps.. so i say get whatever is more conveinient, or cheaper, or whatever you think looks better cause with a huge pump like that the difference in temps between most blocks will be negligeble
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7C is based on a certain cpu wattage.with a 2ghz XP and 2.4v, you'd be no where near 7C.
there is still a lot of room to improve waterblocks
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yes but with the .13 chips we wont be getting heat outputs close to an xp at 2.2v and higher... so probably 7 degrees (just an estimate) probably is about accurate with a good block, and i fail to see how you could get temps more than a couple of degrees better than that with straight watercooling..
of course who knows what will happen an a year or more down the track and what kind of heat outputs cpu's will be putting out, and i dont know how heatspreaders on amd cpu's down the track will have (heatspreaders may favour larger blocks instead of smaller gemini blocks by my thinking)... but i think that heat outputs wont get much higher than we have at the moment, and i still think the gemini is an excellent block..
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