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Unread 05-12-2008, 01:24 PM   #3
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Default Re: Water cooling set-up

I wouldn't use a car radaitor, I'd just use a 3x 120 mm radaitor or two.
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No, a car radiator is meant to cool something that puts off hundreds of thousands of BTU's of heat potentially, and keeps it around 150 Deg+ Your CPU puts out like 20 - 40 Watts of heat at the absolute MAX of most any CPU. Get a radiator that can work in a smaller scale. Like a motor cycle radiator, tranny cooler, or some specialty coolers from online stores.
-Joe


Now thats from 2000 so its a bit different these days with the CPUs putting out 40 - 150 watts of heat and a better small cooler being a heater core, motorcycle radaitor or the best being a computer radaitor. Swiftech makes a nice 3x120 thats pretty cheap too.
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