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jaydee · 04-30-2005, 07:26 PM

Back in the day, not to long a go, water cooling was more of an art. People were building their own blocks and res's and what not and had fun doing it. Today with the innovation of water cooling products by various, maybe to many, commercial companies water cooling has lost a lot of its art form. I see a lot less people interested in building their own water cooling parts and more people moving on to pre-built commercial stuff.

It is really sad to me to see the DIY Pro's disappear off the net one by one. I think mainly they have simply lost interest due to lack of challenge. The Air coolers of today are still more than sufficient to cool even the fastest CPU today and the fastest CPU today needs no overclocking because it is running the same apps it was 2 years ago at half the CPU power. Back in the day we overclocked to make applications, mainly Windows itself, run faster and smoother. Today Window and many other apps run smooth as silk at 1200mhz were the top of the line CPU is up wards of 3.6+ghz. Even games don't run noticeably better with a decent system running at stock compared to overclocked.

The commercial water cooling products have improved considerably as well. Back in the day the average DIY could build a better block then any commercial block there was. Today the average DIY will not. A $40 Swiftech MCW6000 series block is very difficult to beat. Doubtful you will spend less than $40 trying to beat it.

Today I see a bunch of people slapping together a bunch of premade flashy stuff and calling it custom. Back in the day custom meant building the stuff yourself.

What is you thoughts on the subject?

04-30-2005, 07:26 PM	#1
jaydee Put up or Shut Up Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 6,506	Water Cooling a Lost Art? Back in the day, not to long a go, water cooling was more of an art. People were building their own blocks and res's and what not and had fun doing it. Today with the innovation of water cooling products by various, maybe to many, commercial companies water cooling has lost a lot of its art form. I see a lot less people interested in building their own water cooling parts and more people moving on to pre-built commercial stuff. It is really sad to me to see the DIY Pro's disappear off the net one by one. I think mainly they have simply lost interest due to lack of challenge. The Air coolers of today are still more than sufficient to cool even the fastest CPU today and the fastest CPU today needs no overclocking because it is running the same apps it was 2 years ago at half the CPU power. Back in the day we overclocked to make applications, mainly Windows itself, run faster and smoother. Today Window and many other apps run smooth as silk at 1200mhz were the top of the line CPU is up wards of 3.6+ghz. Even games don't run noticeably better with a decent system running at stock compared to overclocked. The commercial water cooling products have improved considerably as well. Back in the day the average DIY could build a better block then any commercial block there was. Today the average DIY will not. A $40 Swiftech MCW6000 series block is very difficult to beat. Doubtful you will spend less than $40 trying to beat it. Today I see a bunch of people slapping together a bunch of premade flashy stuff and calling it custom. Back in the day custom meant building the stuff yourself. What is you thoughts on the subject?