Water Cooled Computers
I have been planning to build my own computer for a long time, at least the last three years or more. It is only recently that I have started to get more money in my bank account to even consider making one. I have been looking at all the products I would like to by and thinking of the kind of power that I would like my computer to have. I want be able to build a computer until at least early next year so I can only guess at what will be available then but I have an idea of what I would get now if I could.
I would like the most powerful AMD possessor there is, at the moment it is the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60. I would like at least one terabyte of hard disk space (at the moment I can only do it with two hard drives or more) but there probably will be terabyte hard drives available to the public then. I most definitely want to make use of NVIDIA SLi because I do like to play the odd computer game from time to time. I definitely need at least two gigabytes of memory, but I would prefer more than four.
The problem is that all this stuff gets very, very hot. The possessor in my computer at the moment is a fake AMD Sempron 2800+, kindly supplied with my personal computer by iQion, has a temperature of over fifty degrees centigrade (it has been overclocked, but I bought it that way). My graphics card which is a passively cooled NVIDIA GeForce 6600 by Gigabyte hasn’t given me any problems, but it is hardly a high end graphics card like I would go for.
Most graphics cards today come with little fans to keep the card at a stedy temperature, but as they get more powerful, the more heat they make. This means that the little fans need to go faster and faster to keep them cooler but this means that they create a lot more noise than they used to (it is also why I have a passive graphics card at the moment). New graphics cards create far to much heat for passive cooling so to keep my system quite I need another cooling method, which is to use a water cooling system.
I should probably point out now that they do not actually use water, but they do use an alternative liquid which is more conductive than normal water. You might also be wondering if it is dangerous to have water so close to electricity, the answer is yes if you are not careful. Most water cooling systems are extremely good and it is not a problem unless you install the coolers badly. The next problem is that if you remove the little fan off the graphics card then the warranty becomes void. I have also found the solution to that, you can buy graphics cards with water cooling blocks built onto them, but there are not many of them at the moment and are very expensive.
Here is my plea to any company who makes NVIDIA based graphics cards, please, please make more graphics cards with Water VGA Blocks build onto them by next year.