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Watercooled Aluminum Casing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cooler-is-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Overclockers Online has posted a review of an all aluminium black Lian Li case equipped with a Z4 watercooler. Besides looking slick this product, that goes by the name Heat Seeker, performs very well." Part of me wonders when is enough, well, enough. Then I stuff that part into a box and try to justify buying one of these things ;)

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  1. Let me get this straight... by Isldeur · · Score: 5, Insightful
    O.k., let me get this straight. I'm supposed to spend $350 bucks on a specialist possibly overly-complicated (and therefore prone to failure) water-cooled case so that I can clock my CPU at a higher frequency than what it was built for.

    OR I could use that money to buy the following (from pricewatch):
    • $67 for 256 Megs DDR 2700 Ram.

    • $135 for an Athlon XP 1700+



    which leaves ~$150 for a super mainboard and just use my normal case.

    Sorry, this sort of thing never made much sense to me.
    1. Re:Let me get this straight... by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Insightful

      O.k., let me get this straight. I'm supposed to spend $350 bucks on a specialist possibly overly-complicated (and therefore prone to failure) water-cooled case so that I can clock my CPU at a higher frequency than what it was built for.

      No, you're supposed to spend $350 for a case that will allow you to run a modern CPU without sustaining permanent hearing damage. The average performance PC is getting scary loud. A 7,000 RPM fan on the CPU, a fan on the video card, a fan on the motherboard chipset, one to two fans on the power supply, and one or more case fans add up to a PC that makes a lot of noise.

      I predict that liquid cooling will become the norm in a few years -- after OSHA (Occupation Safety & Health Administration - a U.S. government agency) or a European equivalent passes regulations limiting the acceptable noise level from PCs. When that happens, the cases will be $99 rather than $350.