Water cooling and over clocking

[ryantombs]

Basically does anyone have any experience water cooling... As in custom water loops for custom over clocked computers and has anyone on her ever overclocked?

[TheMatrix]

I wish I could. But then again, I wouldn't really use that very much, and it drags electricity like you wouldn't believe, so that won't work for me :(
My Pentium4 is stuck at 3GHz anyways, so yeah...

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Yep, what do you need to know :)

[anonymous53]

My first suggestion, since I've seen people do this before. Do not just try to turn your FSB all the way up. Take it in little bumps. When you can't push it anymore up the voltage a step. Rinse and repeat. Tighten up the ram timings as best as you can.

Also when it comes to liquid cooling, Start with a small single loop from radiator to cpu block and pump.... OH, and before you put the liquid cooling set up in the computer... Test it for leaks.

If you'rejust beginning I suggest an enclosed system they'll provide enough cooling, Go for an h70 or h100 (I believe the h100 is a 240mm radiator while the h70 is a 120mm radiator)

[ryantombs]

well with Over clocking i know it depends from mobo to mobo and well i know dont turn the FSB up all the way and do it slowly... but where do you go to tighten up ram timings? and what do you think max voltage shud be when you hit the peak
and as for WC i was thinking antec kuhler 920??

[anonymous53]

What CPU are you using? Because remember one thing, the higher the voltage gets, the hotter the chip gets because it's pushing more electricity through.

As for cooling. I'd say go Corsair h100 or h70, mainly because an h50 keeps my main desktop down to 26 celsius idle and 35 load during games while overclocked to 3ghz from 2.4ghz.

For the motherboard, what brand is it?

[ryantombs]

CPU- phenom II 955 black edition im at 3.4 up from 3.2 lol (stupid OC thing through my mobo)
Mobo- is ASUS baseline cheapest one i cud find its like lmn6lp v2 or something nothing great looking to get new board manybe
and see i was thinking h100 but now i gotta think does it fit in my case NZXT gamma
and also i have to spend an extra 80 for the pwm controller for it and stuff bringing it up to almost a custom loop price where the antec kuhler 920 is a few degrees hotter.. like 4 to 5 C i mean i cant see the justification for the extra 80 wen antec already has pwm control for just 90.
and i reaalize that with the voltage... on stock voltage how high do you think i can get it safely?
im saying 4.5 hopefully i wud want...

[anonymous53]

Go for the h70 or h50, they're both 140mm (Put it in your exhaust vent.) Don't use the Asus OCgenie. There is a manual setting in the bios, It should be something like "Hardware-> Performance -> Overclock -> change from Asus 10% to "manual" and mess around with the FSB timings on the motherboard. Don't push it too far. I think you could get to 4.5, but like I said. You seem like a *beginner* to this, I'd suggest and Enclosed loop system instead of a custom loop. Voltage wise depends on your power supply. It'll show you small steps for the voltages. Increase it only by .015 each time and run Prime95 to see your peak temperatures and test stability. Doesn't the black addition have an unlocked multiplier? Go into the CPU multiplier setting and you should be able to knock it up from a multiplier of 33 to 37 (easily) without a voltage increase.

Also what ram are you using? Because you need to make sure the ram isn't being pushed too far (I've blown out sticks of ram like an idiot)


And yes, the h100 will fit in your case. The top has two exhaust vents for 120mm fans (So 240mm support)

[ryantombs]

corsair xms3
and the reason i was thinking not corsair (even tho i love their rep) is again the pwm control. but im not really sure if it makes a diff?

and yea mines unlocked

and i guess im a begginer in a sense ive been reaserching this since last december and i have been on dedicated OC forums and WC and how they basically walked me through both custom loop and OCing
but im just afraid

but nvr knew i would find any kids on here tht do it
thanks a lot

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corsair xms3
and the reason i was thinking not corsair (even tho i love their rep) is again the pwm control. but im not really sure if it makes a diff?

and yea mines unlocked

and i guess im a begginer in a sense ive been reaserching this since last december and i have been on dedicated OC forums and WC and how they basically walked me through both custom loop and OCing
but im just afraid

but nvr knew i would find any kids on here tht do it
thanks a lot

Kids lol and the XMS3 is shit memory to be overlocking on, i got some 1600mhz corsair vengence and on the first try got 5.1Ghz out of my i7 2700k

You need a decent CPU cycle that isnt a H50 OR a H70 because they arnt proper loops and can use more power

[ryantombs]

Hence 920
And ehh better then the 2gb patriot baseline ddr3 memory... Im not made of money esp wen i have a new car xD and im not looking for extreme OC if i did hello chiller plates and TEC coolers and stuff

[anonymous53]

You won't get far on xms3, not really meant to be overclocked much.
And just saying, if you're not made of money, you don't want to overclock. Breaking a part that's already plenty fast enough is more expensive than you want