Some of you may wonder why i go liquid cool??
I go liquid cool because i can go.It offer me a lot of advantage that outweigh the cons.A lot of people might think liquid cool is risky but i can say is as long as leak test properly and installation is right,thing will be fine.It does take quite some maintainace through.Remember to drain the loop before moving your rig around.
The main reason is i like to try out new thing.Currently,i don't have any form of cooling so why not liquid cool instead of buying a Xigmatek?Liquid cool is not that complicated once you do some homework.I like the idea of it.
Cost
A typical liquid cool setup cost RM600 or so so i think,why not make it cheap?So i figure RM400 won't be that hard.The key is to use alternative parts.Like car heater core,aquarium pump,generic tubing.
Leak
I don't think of that issue for now.A leak won't occur if you maintain your system properly.A lot of overclocker don't have the fear of this so so do i.
Performance gain
From what i know,a decent liquid cool can shave 6 - 10 C from top air cooler.So i should except to be 60 C under load@4ghz(On air is 70 C) with my current chip which will get replace soon.
Upgradeableblity
I like the fact that liquid cool is easily upgradeable for more performance.You can expand your loop by buying more block and a more powerful pump so i like this fact.I might get a Swiftech MCW60 graphic card waterblock in future to liquid cool my graphic card.
Easy turn into benchmarking cooling
Liquid cool can be easily turn into sub ambient temperature.All you need is just put ice in reservoir to chill it but beware of condensation through.This is what i am after,sub ambient to do 5ghz SPI.
Conclusion
As you can see,liquid cool is a efficient way of removing heat.A bonus is that you look kind of cool and your rig is stand out of bread and butter rig other than better performance that liquid cool offer so that is my bonus.
