Got tired of my office/gaming area heating up to 10-15 degrees warmer than the rest of the house when I closed my door to play.

I put water blocks on my CPU & GPU....and stuck the radiator a couple feet below the computer...in the basement.

It does keep the CPU a bit cooler (and the GPU a ****load cooler) than what I was using before...but that was never really the issue.

TBH CPUs Put out what, 140w TDP while GPUs are now Rated for 180-300w TDP, (without Overclocking)

if i could just buy another H100, I'd Slap that on my Shappire GPU but the VRMs and Ram get too hot with no Active Cooling, the H100 will fit onto the 7970/7950 PCB w/ a Copper Plate Spacer, but that wont help the VRM Array which without Active cooling will get to above 100^C.

I'm Seriously Thinking about water blocking my GPU.

it idles in the low 20s, loads at 52 the last few days (80degrees max temp outside.) its mainly OFF during the heat of the day while Im at work.

CPU on the other hand is under an H100 w/ a lil customization dont to it. CPU idles in the TEENs and loads at 28-32^C.

Companies should start putting out All In One GPU Water systems.

make the Blocks out of pure copper, then have a large chunk missing, where the water block would go in, that way they can make one system with interchangeable water blocks for different PCB Layouts.

If I water cool my GPU i Might as well Replace the H100 and Put the CPU on the Same line.

I was using an H50 on the CPU (i7-920 pushed to 4ghz). Like that, I don't recall what idle was, but maxed out the proc temperature would get up to 55 under heavy load, with the readings from the cores in the upper 60s.

Now I've seen the CPU idle hitting 15 (about the temperature of my basement). Maxed it out to about 44, with the cores topping out in the upper 50s. During more realistic use (LO: FC2...haven't cranked up iRacing yet) I'm seeing the CPU holding about like yours...right around 30, with the cores staying below 40.

The GPU was a monster difference. With its stock fan, furmark would quickly hit 70C and then taper off while still climbing to 80 or 90 in extreme cases. With the water block, FC2 wouldn't take it past ~ 32 and furmark never touched 40 after 20+ minutes overclocked.

I bought a 4-wide radiator that only has 2 fans on it. I could probably knock a few more degrees off things by filling it up, especially since some air is getting "spilled" rather than pushed through the fins.

But again...the whole point was that going to water allowed me to pump all that heat out of the room...and I need more time to be sure, but so far it seems to be quite effective at bringing down my _room_ temperature. Any additional cooling of the CPU/GPU is gravy - my old setup was good enough in that regard.

Nice, especially being able to cool GPU along with CPU, just don't forget about the cooler hoses when you have to move the PC

On my current system I initially had a H100 but the fan controller was bad (recalled due to a bunch of bad batches were manufactured at that time), and I was not impressed so instead of waiting for RMA I returned it and went back to air with a Noctua NH-D14 and although it is much bulkier it keeps the CPU temps about the same, H100 was 4 deg cooler with max fan setting which was LOUD, the Noctua is much quieter and about as cool.

I will probably try liquid cooling again sometime, hopefully by then Corsair will have moved production of the H100 to a less crappy chinese manufacturing plant.

http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/vga/569/accelero-hybrid.html?c=2182

Actually, my i7 (pre Sandy Bridge) is only 125...and the new ivy bridges are running TDPs in the 60s and 70s.

Staggering.

My Athlon X2 6000+ was 140w, my FX8120 is 90w, but they have a 125w TDP.

GPUs should take over nearly everything from CPUs (Video Conversion, Rendering, I think one of my Audio Programs now Have DirectCompute plugins that allow me to render all instruments using the GPU to calculate effects in stead of the CPU.)

Nice, does it come with Heatsinks to cover the Ram/VRMs?

179 is pretty steep.

I like the basement idea

Practical in my case. If I need extra cooling I may do it.

How do you take your basement to a LAN game?