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This must be "insane" as in "stupid."
That's barely going to take any heat at all from the hard drive. It could have at least cooled the top, instead of the largely-insulated sides.
The PSU looks like a pretty lame job. It looks like there's barely any contact.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
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Not that extreme.
And yeah, its VERY good idea to cool your HD's down.. [ Just dont dont cool them too much ]. The hotter the HD's run, the chance of a failure increases too.
But HD cooling is usually the low priority since most systems are still in a PC-tower with ~ normal air intakes. But when you have a "closed" no/minimum fans watercooling.. then you really should think about it.
Pe-Te
And btw, most of those power watercooling are made with copper pipes running inside of the powersupply + plate that has contact with the powersupply parts... chances of leaks on a pipe like that.. VERY small [ Guess if those guys test it out before even thinking about installing it ? ].
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Water in PSU is not a funny thing to endure in close rangeIf there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
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Originally posted by PeTe
Not that extreme.
And yeah, its VERY good idea to cool your HD's down.. [ Just dont dont cool them too much ]. The hotter the HD's run, the chance of a failure increases too.
But HD cooling is usually the low priority since most systems are still in a PC-tower with ~ normal air intakes. But when you have a "closed" no/minimum fans watercooling.. then you really should think about it.
This was the main reason I upgraded my case: my initial case did not have good intakes or outtakes, and a drivebay-cooler with 2 40mm fans to cool a 10K drive in such a case seemed to be asking for trouble.
Just curious: on the top of my drives (Quantum Atlas 10K, IBM Ultrastar 36LZX), there is a hole one should keep clear (very clearly marked in the manual). It's purpose is a bit of a mistery to me, but wouldn't putting a large heatsink on top of the drive block that hole ?
Jörg
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That's for airflow to keep the pressure sane with thermal expansion and such.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
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Originally posted by Wombat
That's for airflow to keep the pressure sane with thermal expansion and such.P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
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Originally posted by Wombat
That's barely going to take any heat at all from the hard drive. It could have at least cooled the top, instead of the largely-insulated sides.
The PSU could have been done better, agreed. First, it looks very lame. Second, I doubt it is cooling any better than before.-Slougi
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Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
Would you please explain in detail or point me to wherever I can get more detailed explanation on this? Thanks.
Jörg
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