Originally posted by: DoctorDeath
I go by what i get out of them after i mod them a little. At 4Ghz 30c underload is not bad at all. I had one of their older Freezones on a e6850 and had temps in the single digits. Even with a QX6850 at stock speed temps were only 14c-12c-12c-10c. Then i bumped it up to 4GHz and was only at 30c. Belive me i have ghad my share of problems with the older versions, but the new design really did work as far as the Elite goes. Now with the Boreas,if they had only gone with 12 / 29w TECs it would have made a really big diff. Why they went with 12 / 16w is beyond me. If i have the time next month i might try the 29w waffers. What i do not care for is the wayv they cool the cards with the Boreas. They could have done a better job. Its not a point of supporting them, i just go with what gets the job done. And your wrong about the Boreas being crap.It works and everyone i know that has one is happy with the cooling performance. Do you even own one?I do not know how this went from a suggestion, to a pissing contest lol I got them both for free, and they both work great.
Post screen shots please. The part i bolded im having a hard time believing. What temp program? What was your vcore? There is no way the freezone could hold that vcore.
You've just jumped into quadcore territory, which i am very familar with, and very well knowledged in how they behave.
CoolIT doesnt have the capacity for 4ghz on any quad on any coolit product:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...hlight=coolit+freezone
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...hlight=coolit+freezone
The capacity on that is not anywhere tuned for over 200W of heat. @ 4.0ghz on a G0 that takes around 1.47-1.6Vcore to hold at load. Unless you have a super cherry picked intel CEO only QX6850 that can pop that ghz @ a much lower Vcore, the CoolIT products DONT work. :\
what your saying also im finding very hard to believe. Expecially when i got to play with this unit:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/3869/ntc6bl8.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/7659/ntc17yh0.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3408/ntc22ss7.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1885/ntc24kp3.jpg
Thats 5 x 91W Tec's i have on that unit. Enough to blow the BORAS unit away.
Your boras:
TECs (12) - Power usage :
Max total 130 Watts
My Chiller:
5 x 91W Max total =
455W :X
3 times stronger, you want to continue this debate with me? Im more then willing to spit numbers out with you.
BTW, welcome to anandtech. Sorry if i sound a bit rude, theres no emotion of that kind being expressed. If you have a difference in opinion i would love to hear it.
Just stay away from TEC's. Thats my personal recomendation. Theres too many things that can go wrong in a TEC setup. And its honestly not worth it.
After this tec experiement i had, i dont know if i'll ever touch TEC's again. There just not worth it until we get better more energy efficent TEC's.
Coolit, So far there all expensive and limited in performance easily matched by air, and destroyed by a high class water setup, and no contest against phase.
This is my personal opinion, but i will not recomend them.
I dont recomend anyone reading this a boras unit. As i said ive played with TEC's of much more powerful calibur then your boras, and they just DONT WORK. It costs too much electricity to keep things in check.
Originally posted by: wired247
You will be able to get a higher / more stable overclock because of lower TEMPERATURES. However the purpose of the watercooling system is to use a radiator to release the heat it picks up from your parts. The heat that is released on watercooling will be slightly greater than the heat released on aircooling, because the pump takes energy which is also converted to heat. The only difference is the heat is moved to the radiator instead of being produced inside your case. So even if your case temperatures are lower, your room temperature will be about the same as before.
Your room will get slightly warmer on watercooling, because heat will be about the same, except a little extra from the pump. That's a fact, not up for debate. But you will be able to overclock higher if that's your goal, because temperature will be lower.
ahhh your explaination sounds better.
Yes, your room will heat up faster, because you have the heat from that pump to add to the eq. Also your case wont be holding a lot of heat internally anymore because your hotspots will all be picked up by water.
Which was where i was going at.