Well Running liquid cooling or any cooling besides, Phase Change. you can only cool to the ambient temp in the room. So if the heat is on in a room at lets say 75F you would not be able to cool down past 75F. If i were you i would look into running a Zalman heat sink. They have steller performance and they are very quiet. On 9/1/07, Andrew Raaberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > i built my first pc not long ago, and extremely impulsively... now i am > paying the price. > > it is not really that bad, but i chose a rather unpopular system so now > i am having a difficult time finding the documentation i need, > > this system is an amd dual fx-74, with two bfg gts 8800's factory oc, > with 340 ram? apiece. > > the board is an asus l164-sli ws it has features that i still don't know > how to use, like the two gigabit rj-45 ports, i use one... > > the vga's are hot, the cpus are hot, the psu is hot, the system doesnt > crash, and i am glad i bought vista now that i have learned that it has numa > awareness that may benifit this set up, > > but it heats up the room it is in, i am worried that during the winter > when my family uses the heater i wont really be able to cool this thing at > all > > right now it oscillates between 46-56 C, thats the cpus and board, > > i have three chasis fans 2 120's and 1 80. the psu has a fan, the cpus > use the stock coolers > > that are just operaton variety, copper, i think four heat pipes and a > heat sink, > > my chasis is a full tower and has various ports for water cooling but i > am not convinced that this is the solution i am looking for > > 1. cost > 2. probably a custom set up, cost, > > and yet the dream of possebly cooling this thing, all of it, to around > 35-45C, quietly is what keeps me wondering. > > i guess what i need is some real facts about how much heat a cooling > system is capable of dissapating in preportion to the systems > audibilty...unfortunately, because of cost, trial and error just wont work > with this project, so i need to study hard to try to minimize it, should i > just start with a text book on thermo dynamics, ugh? > > The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering > our special coffee mugs and mouse pads > with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! > http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml > -- Stoudt The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee mugs and mouse pads with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml