Power Water Cooling Kits

msolnik writes: "Toms Hardware has but together a head to head comparison of 4 different water cooling kits. Instead of buying each part seperately these kits come with everything needed. I would love to use water cooling but there is just something about having water inside of my case that makes me very uneasy. But for all you hardcore overclockers out there this may help you out a lot."

Comments

Maybe it's just me

[Wind_Walker]

Personally, I never really understood the whole "overclocking" thing myself. I tweak my computer system, sure. But the things I tweak are (in the old days) loading locations in high memory of my modules within CONFIG.SYS, or I tweak the settings of Netscape or online games to satisfy my own personal preferences...

But in terms of voiding warranties, possibly destroying hardware, and overheating delicate computer systems, I never really had the urge to do it. I just can't understand the reasoning behind overclocking a processor just to squeeze a couple of extra megahertz out of it, when it's nearly impossible to tell the difference between MHz these days.

Any overclockers care to enlighten me regarding the reasoning behind overclocking?

Re:Maybe it's just me

[cavemanf16]

I overclock. It's the difference between adjusting the heat settings, mirrors, seat positions, and radio volume on your car, and putting on a fat exhaust, aftermarket boom radio, and an intercooler for more speed and 'wow!' factor. Not only does it make your computer go just a bit faster, but it's for bragging rights too. It's fun. It's the hardware side of script kiddies, maybe to a degree (but not nearly as disruptive to everyone else :-p ).

Sure, overclocking doesn't need to be done, but some people enjoy it, like me, but I hate fiddling with trying to code or decode programs. Boring! But if that's what floats your boat, great! :)

Hope that helps.

Anything that makes less noise

[Neorej]

I don't care what kind of cooling my system uses I just wish they will one day come up with something QUIET!

I mean, listening to all them fans is irritating enough, I don't need an addition of gurgling and refrigerator noises, however appropriate those may be in some games.

I, for one, would be really happy if they started making AMD athlon XP 2000 processors, clocked down to the equivalent of an athlon 1Ghz. Fast enough for most purposes and maybe that'll allow me to ditch the fan and the accompanying noise.