Site Statistics
 
Threads: 4,038
Posts: 17,686
Members: 3,037
Users Online: 14
Newest Member: David.beckerham


Go Back   PC101 > Computer Related Forums > Hardware

Hardware Thinking about adding some new hardware and looking for opinions? Having problems with your current hardware? This is the place share!


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 02-15-2006, 07:05 PM   #1
Freshman
 
Digger's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 12
Rep Power: 0 Digger is on a distinguished road
Cooling systems Corsair vs Thermaltake vs Gigabyte

This is a good comparison of Corsair, Thermaltake and Gigabyte. Corsair and Gigabyte come out overTherma.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/80...yte/index.html
Digger is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 03-12-2006, 10:32 AM   #2
Junior
 
McDaddy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 198
Rep Power: 3 McDaddy is on a distinguished road
nice

i read the compareison and it is a good review. there are a couple of things that the review does not cover. i started with a thermaltake bigwater. and ran some of the same number that they are showing. since then i have modifyed it and learned a lot about liquid cooling. yes, the thermal take needs bigger tubing, and a pump that is not a sissy. but you can cut your temps by investing some time and a little money. (very little money). for starters, i lapped the bottom of the block to a shine. this means i took sandpaper and polished the bottom of the block. starting with 600,moving to 800, and so on until i got to 2000 grit. second. i put my radiator in the front of my case. ( i have a cooler master stakcer) so it is pulling cold air from the out side in and blowing it across the radiator. if i put the radiator in a place where the warm air from the case is blowing on it verses the cool out side air, then then temp would be higher. third, i changed the flow direction a little. it was pump to water block to resivour to radiator and back to pump. i changed it to pumo to resevour to radiator to water block and back to pump. this cut a couple of degrees. and last i installed a second 120 fan on my radiator. so it has the thermaltake 120 fan on one side of the radiator and a second 120 on the other side. this does not make a big differance, but it does minorly help the air flow throught the radiator better. note to the seocond fan, i had it laying around so it didnt cost me a dime. the only thing that really suxs about the thermaltake is that the kit does not come with an easy way to drain the system. so it makes for a small pain in the butt when it comes time to change the liquid.
McDaddy is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Inside Sun's New x64 Enterpise Systems Will.Spencer UNIX / Linux 0 08-01-2006 03:39 PM



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:04 AM.

Powered by vBulletin Version 3.7.0
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.2.0 RC5