What are the advantages and disadvantages of a water cooled PC system.?
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they are actually quite good. the main trouble is make sure U dont break the circuit causeing them to leak
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Yes it will cause my friend has an Alienware Aurora 7500 and has Liquid cooling it does make it run smoother faster cause it cools the components down.
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Yes, it sounds weird, but I swear, a Chemistry friend of mine did it. And it worked. Basically, put some rubbing alcohol in a container, put it on top of your CPU and have a fan blow on the rubbing alcohol. Since it has a lower freezing point than water, it should help to cool it down further.\n\nBut, seriously, what are you doing to it? Because it takes a lot of effort to get it that hot, especially it being what it is. Does the room you have it in above 80degrees F? That might be an issue. Did you build your PC? Sometimes they may have overclocked it for you and you don't even know it.\n\nHope you find a solution. I seem to be stumped. Sorry, good luck.\n\nATTENTION: Addition, please read\n\nReceived your inquiry but I can't seem to reply back. It says that your e-mail address has yet to be confirmed. Hope this gets to you.\n\nIn answer, when they say that your processor speed is say 2.2Ghz, that is not your maximum running speed but your optimum. It is not good to run it faster than optimum as that could cause increased wear and tear. You can however tweak it to run faster.\n\nOne way to find out is to take the name of the processor and check it directly with the manufacturer to find out what the speed is. As I don't have any of your specs, that is all I can say.\n\nPS: Have you talked to the Tech Support about this? I think you should if you haven't.\nPPS: Silly question, but have you checked to see if there is enough coolant or water in there?
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The CPU heatsink is used to cool the processor,it takes the air to cool down processor.
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They remove heat from the bottom of your laptop.  Your computer works best at a cooler temperature, and having a cooler under it will help it run faster, and last longer.
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external is better.because it can be used for other computers too.\nyou can use it as a large cooldisk.
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Major advantage of a gate valve is that it decreases the amount of shock given to the system.  \n\nGate valves are open & closed at a slower speed then many others valves.  This can be both an advantage and a disadvantage.  The advantage is that the water is increased/decreased within the system slowing causing less shock on the system.  The disadvantage is the time that it takes to get the system opened/closed fully.\n\nAnother disadvantage is the gate valve could get something stuck under the gate and not be able to close all the way.\n\nHas many other various advantages and disadvantages but mostly dependant upon the application of which you are using it.
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1. you can only put one cpu fan per cpu. you can however add chasis fans, and to answer that, depends on the chasis you have.\n2. Sata doesnt make your processor any faster. It does however increase how fast the processor can access information from the harddrive. typrically it wont be very noticable from a home user prospective. It will help with labor intensive programs. and maybe boot your computer up a lil faster.\n3. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I have always used generic and have never had a problem.\n4. Have no personal opinion on either product.\n5. NO, if you want sound you have to have a sound card, and like a stereo system, it doesnt matter how good your speakers are, if your stereo (sound card) sucks, so will the sound.\n6.any time you want to hear sound from your computer.\n7. depends on how many expansion slots you are using and for what. if you have your motherboard with no periphials, then you dont need such a robust powersupply. \n8. yes over clocking causes over heating, over heating anything is always bad.
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Besides adding/reconfiguring fans, or removing/reapplying thermal paste to your processor,  I would STRONGLY advise using CPUidle.  This small program runs in the background and tells your computer to "relax" when you are not doing something on it, or are just using it to do basic things.  \nIt basically keeps your cpu occupied when it isn't doing power tasks and thus LOWERS the cpu temperature DRAMATICALLY!  I use it on both my desktop and notebook, cause remember, the lower the temp the longer life you will get out of your processor!  Try it!
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heat is a big issue.  when the inside of your computer case is dirty the cooling system can't do its job properly. either take it to a reputable shop and have them clean it or go buy a can of compressed air, open the case and blow all the dust out of it taking care to get it all out of the louvres under the cpu fan. DO NOT use a vacuum! it creates a static electricity charge that can corrupt the components on your mother board. a static charge weaker than you can feel can and will destroy components.\nhope this helps
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what are we trying to do? Remove heat from the computer so it does not burn up. One way is to bring cool air and push out warm air. \n\nA fan does that and oh Yeah ....... it really really low cost.\nAnything else will increase the cost and you don't really want to do that do you. The more it costs to build it the more you pay for it.\n\nYes there other methods ... I know all of them but they all cost more money .....
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not too hard, especially if the video card isn't water cooled. if it is the only extra steps would be to remove the cooling solution from the new card and installing the water block.
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Yes its safe as long as you have no children or animals trying to get into it. You might have to keep an eye on the dust problem, But if you want a solution then have a look at water cooling for your computer, It will cut down on the dust that gets sucked in to the system, it will keep your computer cool so it will perform well and it will cut out most if not all of the noise.
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If you have room, get a desktop. You'll have more power and more memory in general, plus it won't fry if you drop some crumbs on it.
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I think an assembled pc will always be better. You can change things as you want, you can upgrade as needed, warranty is per part and not per entire product, etc.
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The difference is big.  With a water cooled chiller, there is a unit located in the building that acts as the driving force to transfer the heat from the building water loop to a secondary loop (condenser water loop).  The second water loop is then run up to a cooling tower usually located on the roof of a building where the heat is then expelled to the atmosphere.  High efficency with these type of devices.\n\nWith an air cooled chiller, there is no secondary water loop, and the primary water loop from the building runs directly up to the roof.  There, the chiller uses the thermodynamic principles of refrigerants to directly remove the heat to the atmosphere.  There is less equipment with this system, but the efficiency is half that of the water cooled systems.\n\nAlso, air cooled chillers are limited in the total size of the cooling system that they can adaquatly handle, where as water cooled chillers can be much much larger.
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got any hands on experience with this kind of thing?\nI have a Biostar iDEQ 200N, a similar rig but without the cool handle.\n\nIs it reliable with a lot of hot parts packed into a small form factor?\nHeat can be an issue, but they're engineered with special heat sinks and cooling to address it. Running a hot video card can be the biggest problem -- you want a card with good cooling.\n\nIs it loud?\nGenerally these things are designed for use as home media PCs, so most of them are quiet. I can't hear my Biostar over anything else in the room. :-)\n\nIs there any accelerated way to hook it into and out of home and work situation (i.e. a docking station). I'm thinking about this as a daily use machine.\nSure. Just get all USB peripherals (keyboard, mouse, etc.) and put them on a hub. Then you just have to connect the USB cable, monitor, and speaker cord when swap it around. (You could even go USB audio, but yuck.)\n\nWe use them almost exclusively for our LAN parties these days. Most have cooling solutions designed for small spaces, whether it be heat pipes (Shuttle) or heavily ventilated cases. We've successfully run them for extended periods with Radeon 9800 Pros and Audigy2's, + 3.0GHz P4's, with no heat issues.\n\nIn fact, I have an Athlon 64 cube here, and it does run a bit warmer, but the fan chugs along and keeps it cool. Plus, all of these have aluminum cases that bleed heat a bit more efficiently