warriorpoet wrote:
Q9550 @ 3.4 GHz is a heat beast, and it's sitting at 54c (hottest core) all-out load right now with 3x
[email protected] clients and linpack running simultaneously.
Don't be silly, the Q9550 is not a heat beast, and a hottest-core load temp of 54ºC on water certainly does not make it one. I have a Rev.C @ 3.4GHz on air with a single 120mm fan @ 360rpm and I have found it impossible to get the hottest core over 61º no matter what I throw at it. 61º is a perfectly safe temperature, and that's
with an S1-cooled 4850 in the same box. Prescott was a heat beast, Kentsfield was bloody hot without decent cooling, Yorkies - even the 9550 with its monster cache - aren't even in the same league.
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8800GTS 512 absolutely wipes the floor with 4850 when it comes to folding (what it's used for). GTX280 is in a whole 'nother world than a 4850, especially when taking folding into consideration.
Granted, my apologies there.
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Is H2o more hassle? Yes, but only if you don't enjoy working with/ around it

Same could be said for my obsession with disappearing every cable in my systems, so I know and respect what you're talking about; the love of that process is the main reason most of us are here. I should have said: "less hassle from my point of view"

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Have you compared your current system to the same system under water? If not, how do you know it is "a lot quieter (and a lot less hassle) than it would be if it was water cooled"? See, from where I read it looks like you're just regurgitating the usual objections I see at SPCR-- objections which positively reek of inexperience with H2o cooling.
No, I have not done a direct comparison. I do have experience with water cooling though, and while I would never claim to have anything like a comprehensive knowledge, certainly not of the quietest/most efficient kit, I do know enough to be able to conclude that replacing three 300-600rpm 120mm fans with a water pump and one or two such fans, regardless of quality of components, would not bring me any silencing benefit and would, for me, add a lot of "hassle".
You say yourself that the loudest components in your system are its hard drives; I cannot hear my hard drives, period. I think most of the objections you refer to here are based around the same logic - that there are greater silencing benefits to be had for much less effort than installing water cooling, which brings with it its own set of silencing challenges.
I would however still humbly retract what I said in response to your original claim anyway. In my haste to respond to your challenge I didn't register the fact that you have
both gfx cards in one system. Not that I'm saying you're right of course, just that I'm definitely not
