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Originally Posted by Daniel ~

Ambient temp 61 F CPU Temp 20C
2.44 2 core @ 3750

Water is massively better than air at cooling...5 times the ability to cool of air...If your really interested I did a review of my Koolance set up for front page a while back..

Just so you know, I'm no great shakes at these things and am prone to error, yet I've never losrt a single bit of hardware to water in 8 years...":O}

They are water cooling Video cards for a reason...":O}

I'd second that as well, the prebuilt systems like Koolance / Thermaltake ones are really foolproof designs and while they don't have the same level of performance of some of the custom jobs like Gizmo's direct die job and Wild Andy C's more exotic rad setups, they are extremely reliable and easy to build. Mine's been at least two years with not a hint of leakage in spite of heaps of movement and part modification.

The reason watercooling isn't as common in servers is that datacenters are specifically designed a certain way and as a result rack mount servers have to fit in with that. There are watercooled servers though, and there's an increasing push to go watercooled to bring the power consumption/performance ratio of datacenters down.

IBM eyes expanded water cooling for data centers - Network World
IBM labs produces domestic heating system from water cooled data center | News |
IBM Unveils New Water Cooling Technique « Data Center Knowledge
HPCwire: IBM, ETH Zurich to Build Water-Cooled Supercomputer

If we finally get to the point where DCs finally get rid of those monster air conditioning systems and switch to a system with cold water plumbed to each rack and hot water extracted and recycled it could well be that we get some massively better power figures.