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Unread 12-24-2003, 07:42 PM   #8
Cathar
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Originally posted by zoson
You're going to need something much, much more beefy than a minifridge to keep your water ice cold at a huge heatload created by 2400mhz.
The fridges are designed just to remove the heat, and keep a cold environment cold. They are NOT designed to keep a liquid cold that constantly is having heat pumped into it. You'll either burn the compressor out, or your coolant just won't get very cold.
-Zoson
I base my recommendation on a few guys who have done just what I said, and kept hot overclocked CPU's very cool with the water below freezing for two years straight now.

It was not a casual throw-away recommendation. It was based on real experiences, and not just theory.
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