What do you use to cool?

[Him]

I'm wondering, who has a really sick cooling setup in their computer? I have a pretty generic water cooling, not bad ass at all. I'm wondering who the OC'ers are out there that have something sick set up to keep their beast nice and cool.

I have to Aquarius II by Thermaltake, keeping my Pentium 4 2.4gHZ Prescott between 98 and 102 F.

10 case fans or so, not really sure. It is a ridiculous amount, I do know that.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

I have 14 case fans keeping my setup cool

One of them a 120mm Panasonic Panaflo fan

 

[GrimReaper23]

how do you have 14 I only have 2

 

[Nubius]

lol it didn't come with 14. You gotta add your own in.

I just got an SLK-900A heatsink with vantec tornado. Probably gonna look to piecing my own water cooling setup here in a couple weeks...I was gonna get it in a few days but I think I'm gonna do eVGAs step up program and go from 6600GT to the 6800GT

 

[mbwest]

How much of a difference does cooling make? enhance performance? extend computer life?

 

[Augsy]

i think they were including all the other fans like video card fan and cpu fan.

 

[Nubius]

It will extend computer life, but no it doesn't enhance performance. But if you're going to overclock which DOES enhance performance then you'd need to keep it cool

 

[FireFox]

Yes, it does increase performance, keeps your system more stable, and increases your computers overall lifespan.

Right now I got a toal of....::counts:: .....7 fans in my comp. I have a Cooler Master XDream II which keeps my CPU running at around 34 celsius while idling, and 38 under heavy load.

 

[Regulus]

I have 4. Two case, PSU and 1 PCI. You want more fans blowing out than in. I have 2 in and 2 out.

 

[The Rage]

FANS??
One intake (side panel) One outake (rear panel). CPU fan....of course. 2 Fans in PSU.
AMD 2400+ @ 39 C.