Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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The problem I find in general is the waste of these products.
Someone needs to get computer case makers together so installing watercooling is easier and more efficient.
For me the most useful thing of watercooling is removing the heat from a case with lots of heat sources, I always ran radiators setup outside the case, it stops difficult radiator mounting, cramped cases and a complete and utter pain to remove components when upgrading and changing things like motherboards.
What we need is, a computer case maker that has removeable panels around the expansion slots area so you can have for instance the gpu cooler connected to a rad box outside the case, with a silent fan, ability to have several rads, a decent pump and everything else outside the case and out of the way but the ability to get the gpu/cpu blocks into the case easily, as pci slots limit you to tiny tubing or side panel off which is what I ended up doing mostly.
You need to be able to unclip the gpu block, slide it out of the case easily, work on the case, change gpu, switch out mobo's with no rad's in the way, no tubing, then when all is done slide the gpu block back in , hook it up and away you go.
That also leaves you with improved out of case cooling, no rad/tubing screwing up the upgrade process and just a simplified and somewhat safer way to run watercooling.
But then thats just me
The gpu block is a great idea itself, and if I could use it with an external cheapo radiator box and remove the heat from the case I'd probably be all over it.
Someone needs to get computer case makers together so installing watercooling is easier and more efficient.
For me the most useful thing of watercooling is removing the heat from a case with lots of heat sources, I always ran radiators setup outside the case, it stops difficult radiator mounting, cramped cases and a complete and utter pain to remove components when upgrading and changing things like motherboards.
What we need is, a computer case maker that has removeable panels around the expansion slots area so you can have for instance the gpu cooler connected to a rad box outside the case, with a silent fan, ability to have several rads, a decent pump and everything else outside the case and out of the way but the ability to get the gpu/cpu blocks into the case easily, as pci slots limit you to tiny tubing or side panel off which is what I ended up doing mostly.
You need to be able to unclip the gpu block, slide it out of the case easily, work on the case, change gpu, switch out mobo's with no rad's in the way, no tubing, then when all is done slide the gpu block back in , hook it up and away you go.
That also leaves you with improved out of case cooling, no rad/tubing screwing up the upgrade process and just a simplified and somewhat safer way to run watercooling.
But then thats just me
The gpu block is a great idea itself, and if I could use it with an external cheapo radiator box and remove the heat from the case I'd probably be all over it.