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sloppycoder · 02-23-2002, 12:04 PM

have you considered leaving the fans on 7v but taking away the pump?

that sounds mad but..

there was a guy (trubador) on the OCS forums who wanted to see how long his cpu would last if the pump failed. the cpu was an athlon xp1500+ overclocked to 491mhz over stock. so he turned off the pump and waited, and it went from 40 odd degrees to 57 degrees and stayed there. this was seemingly because the radiator was mounted in the top of his case above the waterblock. so the hot water rose to the rad, was cooled and went back down again. also this rad was a noname, copper, double pass continuous winding tube. it looked like that pants one from 3DCOOL, and with one panaflow 120mm on it.

slop

02-23-2002, 12:04 PM	#19
sloppycoder Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 31	have you considered leaving the fans on 7v but taking away the pump? that sounds mad but.. there was a guy (trubador) on the OCS forums who wanted to see how long his cpu would last if the pump failed. the cpu was an athlon xp1500+ overclocked to 491mhz over stock. so he turned off the pump and waited, and it went from 40 odd degrees to 57 degrees and stayed there. this was seemingly because the radiator was mounted in the top of his case above the waterblock. so the hot water rose to the rad, was cooled and went back down again. also this rad was a noname, copper, double pass continuous winding tube. it looked like that pants one from 3DCOOL, and with one panaflow 120mm on it. slop