[OmegaZero_Alpha]

So I am going to be replacing my motherboard soon (finally updating to a board that has a pcie2.0 on it) AND I am going to be replacing my zalman throughout the process. So I figured I would make the most phenomenal cooling unit that has braced the face of this planet.

here goes my prototype:

Noctua NH-U12P 120mm with a Delta GFB1212VHW 120x76mm 3550/3200 RPM fan.

what is that, you say? a 120mm fan that operates at 3550 rpm? WHY IN THE HOLY FUCK WOULD YOU DO THAT!??

Here is why: 220 CF/M.

yes, that is over two times as fast as normal 120mm fans, and almost three times as fast as the included one.

brace for epic, I am going to try for 4ghz on my quad-core.

[FrostDragonfly]

so u can run tf2 right?

...hey wont it be kinda loud?

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

TF2 can be flawlessly with an 80$ E5200 (dual core, 2.5ghz) wolfsdale with no overclocking.

this is a 160$ Q6600 (2.4ghz quad core) overclocked to 4ghz.

and yes, the fan alone is about 60db, plus the sound of all of that air moving

[Versed]

I'd be interested in checking one of these out:

http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php

[Zeitgeist]

eh, i have a 2.83 quad.

[Redneck]

I used the same video card, an 8800GTS 320MB, and went from an Athlon 939 4200+ X2 to an Intel C2 Q9550, and the difference is incredible. I used to get all kinds of hesitation and low framerate with the old AMD kit, now TF2 is flalress.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

technically all you needed to do was mat_queue 2, as previously stated an E5200 wolfsdale is overkill for 99% of games (the exception being RTS's like Supreme Commander). Hell, you can overclock the wolfsdale and it will run crysis just as well as any quad-core or dual-core extreme.

crudely, videogames today are:

5% cpu power
5% ram speed
90% gpu power

exceptions being that ram speed won't bottleneck anything unless it is below ddr333, you don't even need DDr2 unless you are heavily overclocking your system.

Hard drive speed will affect loading speeds, but any SATA drive will be so fast that you won't notice the difference between that and if you payed for a 1000$ solid-state. (serial ATA's bandwidth is maxed out by cheap hard drives, all you can really improve is seek times, which has more to do with hardware fragmentation)

As for the submerged computer, there are still some problems with that which I will wait to be worked out. (namely the fact that submerging a hard drive in anything will allow the medium to get past the dust filters inevitably destroying it, and if oil seeps between electrical contacts then it will make the said contact cease functioning, this could destroy a CPU)

[Hell-met]

omega has a phd in computers tbh

[avy]

Ever heard of Novec 1230? It's a synthetic "water" used for fire suppression around high end electronics. It leaves no residue or footprint and you can completely submerge electronics and they will still function. Total submersion cooling, here we come.

They did a live demonstration on CNN where they submerged a paperback book, a laptop and then a TV in this liquid and everything still worked. Yet, I haven't been able to Google up any video of it other than this (and it isn't too informative):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVPrkIb1Io

[Redneck]

You would still need liquid to flow to prevent excessive heat around energy consuming components, I think. Otherwise wouldn't you end up with a big, hot area around a component which would just get hotter? Liquid cooling systems typically include a radiator to remove heat; what would you remove heat from the liquid "bath" with?