*snicker* His CPU is so cool and fast he beat me posting by 2 minutes. See how good it works? Heh, my "general" machine, which I post to FR is only an Athlon 2700. But the original point is accurate. At some point, you can only cool with water or a compressor. Pretty much all the CPUs available on the general market can be cooled pretty good with a Zalman 120mm copper brick. If you overclock big, you can go nutz using compressor cooling. That said, I have watched exactly the same CPUs water/air(zalman 7700 in a good Antec Case) and the 7700 is within half a degree.
No question, if you get a good water cooler you can overclock the shiznit out of a cpu. You can go insano with compressor cooling.
Hey Malsua, have you ever looked at
VapoChill?
I have thought of getting together with a friend of mine in the A/C business to use a cheap water cooler compressor to achieve the same results, at a fraction of the cost. I've even discussed it with my 15 year old daughter as a project to teach her the joys of building gaming rigs. I let her build my last gaming rig with me and she really enjoyed the experience. Especially when it booted up the first time we hit the power switch. She couldn't believe it really worked! (That is the rig running the same Zalman cooler and Nitrous.)
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