Quote Originally Posted by Dr Croubie


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If anyone's wondering about the home-made watercooling, a few years ago for my previous system I bought a nice Noctua heat-pipe cooled 12cm-fan CPU heatsink. But it didn't fit in my case by about 1cm. Presuming that 'heatpipe' just meant solid copper, I cut the ends off, and basically cocked it up. So i ripped off a few fins from the top, clamped some automotive hose on, bought a fountain-pump and a 1L food-container, and it cooled nicely. With this system, I updated it with the T-pieces, wider (10mm) hose, and soon i'll (have to) replace the distilled water with proper radiator fluid before it starts rusting. It may or may not work as well as the original heatpipe-cooler, but it keeps everything under 70C running CPUBurn on 4 of the 6 cores, and is practically silent, so good enough for me.

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I think the next time there is an Apple vs PC debate, which always leads to the superiority of building your own computer, we need to link your home built set up. When will Mac catch up and start water cooling theirs?