Be Cooling Jagged Edge block.....
 

So, I'm air cooling my Athlon64 3000+, mostly because I was midly irriated at the configuration of my circa 1997 mid tower chieftec case and my circa early 2001 watercooling setup (main irritant was that I've got 5 HDs now, and heat from the pump/res was cooking two of them, that and I have to build an A-64 mount for my waterblock).

On AIR, my A-64 temps are good, I'm clocked at 2.5Ghz to keep the fans speed down, and temps rarely spike over 35c (heck, the Ambient temp gets to 30c most days) and the fans are not MUCH louder then my watercooling rig was, well O.K. they are louder, because my water cooling rig was silent when sitting at the PC.

My water cooling rig is (was) composed of a BeCooling AquaStealth Jagged Edge Waterblock http://www.overclockers.com/tips597/block.jpg
a small petsmart pond pump in a 4x4x2 marine electrical box (formerly mounted in the lower HDD bays) a heater core (that I cut down and soldered up. WARNING, NEVER ATTEMPT THIS) as well as a BeCooling chipset cooler.

This hardware was first installed on a PIII 700/100 oc'd to 1.03 Ghz (BX6-2.0) for a LONG LONG while, next it cooled my P4 1.6a at 2.4Ghz (untill the Soltek motherboard died, and they told me to take a leap). A shipping error from the most wonderfull vendor on the internet (NewEgg) netted me an A7N8X Deluxe for the price of a refurb ECS P4 motherboard (the manager said to keep it) and so, this same cooling gear ran my Barton 2500 at 2.3GHz (later a mobile at 2.6GHz). About this time I added a ?MCW40? and for my ti4200 Video card, and still everyting was silent and cool.

So, I've had 4 years of service from this stuff, all the while keeping things in the low to mid 30s (cooler if I wanted noise), and being just about silent. In fact, when the A/C at work failed during a Vegas summer and none of the workstations would run due to overheating, I took my rig to work :) 120mm Intake and Exhaust on full power and I was the only one who was operational! (unless you went the the server room, where there was a seperate A/C unit.)

Now for the question, as if you hadne't guessed, anyone think the Jagged Edge will still suffice with my nice new Venice 3000+ or should I not annoy myself building a new retention bracket, rejiggering a new location for the pump, and re-installing this crap.

Thanks,

Paul.

Should work fine.

For a venice, I don't think its worth the effort. If it were a Sand Diego my answer would be yes, but there is no substantial OC gain in vencie chips with watercooling. As it is, you only 5C above ambient.... thats pretty good with air. Perhaps invest in a Thermalright XP-90C and a good fan?

I agree with maxsaleen. Venice runs very cool and WCing doesn't pushed the cpu limits that further than air. Average 150mhz extra and .1-.2 volts more maybe. But your goal is noise and cooler temps and you already have the equipment and they will suffice.

Thanks for the advice.

Paul.