So I've been looking into self-contained CPU water-coolers, but I've been having trouble finding good benchmarking articles to get a handle on which actually perform better than high-end air cooling.

Can anyone point to some specific links?

nineninja9

United States194 Posts

July 19 2010 05:04 GMT

#782

Directcanada is decent too, from what I've been told.

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

July 19 2010 05:08 GMT

#783

http://frostytech.com/

is one of the better sites for heatsink reviews. Craton, most reviews find that self contained water cooling performs about on par with (or a little better/worse than) high end air cooling like the Megahalems.

semantics

10040 Posts

July 19 2010 05:18 GMT

#784

On July 19 2010 13:59 Craton wrote:
So I've been looking into self-contained CPU water-coolers, but I've been having trouble finding good benchmarking articles to get a handle on which actually perform better than high-end air cooling.

Can anyone point to some specific links?

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/819/pg6/socket-1366-cooler-roundup-august-2009-thermal-performance.html

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/971/pg6/coolit-eco-alc-review-performance.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/corsair-h50-cpu-cooler-review/6

It's not always about it beating big air coolers, ususally they will be quieter then a big air cooler.

But there is a downside that it wont be actively cooling the area around the cpu where the vrm are etc.

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

July 19 2010 05:33 GMT

#785

well it usually depends on the type of fan that you have for the coolers. Some heatsinks react very well to high static pressure while others prefer CFM. Really hard to actually distinguish the heatsinks when you're only using a set amount of fans.

R04R

United States1631 Posts

July 19 2010 08:40 GMT

#786

Yup, one of my RAMs is faulty. Shame. I hope the other one doesn't crap out.

I think I have to do the RMA stuff. Damnit.

TanGeng

Sanya12364 Posts

July 19 2010 10:57 GMT

#787

Ouch.

I hate the RMA process. I always get more reliable stuff because of it. Occasionally I still have to do it.

R04R

United States1631 Posts

July 20 2010 00:13 GMT

#788

Is DDR1333 supposed to be clocked at 666Mhz? I'm running memtest right now and RAM at a time and it says it's at 666.

Update while typing:
Lol it just said it failed a huge amount of tests.

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

July 20 2010 00:14 GMT

#789

DDR3 1333 has a clock rate of 666MHz but an effective clock of 1333MHz. It is marketed by the effective clock rate.

IntoTheWow

is awesome32277 Posts

July 20 2010 00:16 GMT

#790

On July 20 2010 09:13 R04R wrote:
Is DDR1333 supposed to be clocked at 666Mhz? I'm running memtest right now and RAM at a time and it says it's at 666.

Update while typing:
Lol it just said it failed a huge amount of tests.

DDR = double data rate

666 -> 1333

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

July 20 2010 01:54 GMT

#791

moar sc2 benches

http://guru3d.com/article/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-gpu-graphics-performance/5
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/34344-starcraft-ii-gpu-performance-comparison.html

om nom nom nom

Kare

Norway786 Posts

July 20 2010 01:57 GMT

#792

I consider Alienware next time I buy a computer. Seems like they are worth it.

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

July 20 2010 01:57 GMT

#793

not sure if sarcasm

ati so told ;_;

nineninja9

United States194 Posts

July 20 2010 02:09 GMT

#794

Well nvidia had to get something right this gen. Maybe this will drive down prices on ati cards before 6xxx come out.

R04R

United States1631 Posts

July 20 2010 02:10 GMT

#795

Now the other one is faulty. 45 Errors in 1 pass of memtest. I even researched the settings OCZ themselves suggested to use on their forums.

Now I'm going to RMA, but should I exchange or refund for something like G Skills?

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

July 20 2010 02:22 GMT

#796

On July 20 2010 11:09 nineninja9 wrote:
Well nvidia had to get something right this gen. Maybe this will drive down prices on ati cards before 6xxx come out.

nvidia got plenty right, just got a lot wrong as well. 6XXX is going to be uninteresting for the most part

nineninja9

United States194 Posts

July 20 2010 02:31 GMT

#797

Admittedly they do have the best performing cards this gen, but efficiency and the fact that they had very few choices for the <$300 market was unfortunate.

I think 6xxx is still 40nm architecture, so it's hard to expect any significant performance improvements.

semantics

10040 Posts

July 20 2010 02:34 GMT

#798

6xxx has already came out for nvidia :D haha, 6xxx isn't a major revision it's just another step in ati's crap about production, die shrinking etc over arch of the gpu, likely just being another minor revision worked well for them, but the 5xxx->6xxx isn't too interesting it's still going to be 40nm and not that much of a tweak. Nvidia was interesting this around because of a from scratch arch which due to manufacture problems and still not that mature drivers will a year probably before optimizations get really in there nvidia still boasts a more promising product. Although likely by late next year ATI will try to get a 28nm revision of their product out there.

Lanyth

Canada62 Posts

July 20 2010 02:51 GMT

#799

The previous Antec NEO ECO 520W I was going to buy just went out of stock for Canada. So I'm thinking of this instead http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341022 . Would this be good?

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

July 20 2010 02:53 GMT

#800

Yes, it should be fine