Silent Water Cooling on the SLI

Doggie Fizzle writes "Overclockers with a serious SLI gaming system don't have to deal with the drone of double the fans to get the extreme performance. A review of a customized Zalman Reserator 1+ water cooling system shows a well overclocked SLI system offering solid temperatures on the CPU, but an impressive drop of 20 degrees C on both video cards during full load operation... And the unique cooling tower of the Reserator 1+ does it all without a single fan to cool these hot components."

Comments

Re:Even better than water cooling

[merreborn]

How come nobody's thought of using FREON as the coolant, like in air conditioning units?

I thought we use freon in AC and fridges because they're compressor-based cooling systems? Not becuase it's got some magical better-than-water specific heat...

Water cooling is completely different from compression cooling. One uses a pump, and keeps the coolant at a constant pressure, one uses a compressor and varies the presure of the coolant. I think freon would be a shitty coolant at room temperature, used in a water cooling-style aparatus.

I mean, yeah, if you're gonna install a compressor in your PC, then freon makes sense...

Re:Even better than water cooling

[denissmith]

Quite possibly because it is suspected of destroying the ozone layer, and its use is banned.