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09-17-13, 09:11 PM #1
Looking to Buy a Water Cooling system
For the past 3 weeks my system has been lagging bad when playing CS:GO, usually after about 30 minutes or so of playing so I am guessing that my system is over heating. my FPS drop to the teens and this is with the video settings set to all low settings. i even don't play BF3 on High settings due to this issue also.
So I want to add water Cooling.
My System:
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition
Cooler Master Hyper 212 plus CPU Heatsink/Fan
Radeon HD 6950 2GB
8GB of memory.
Windows 7 Ultimate.
Cooler Master HAF 932 Case.
Antec 850 Watt PSU.
What all will I need to cool my CPU and GPU?
Will I need to worry about cooling my memory?
I know NOTHING about water Cooling so just going off of reviews I found this one.
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Water Cooler - Newegg.com
What are your thoughts and are there any different ones that I should look at?
Thanks,Last edited by Gunny; 09-17-13 at 09:18 PM.
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09-17-13, 09:22 PM #2
Re: Looking to Buy a Water Cooling system
Just so you know, the Corsair Hydro series is only for CPUs, it won't do much for your GPU. You may want to first do a good cleaning of everything.
Next maybe download http://www.almico.com/speedfan449.exe and write down your idle temps, your temps when you first start CSGO, and then alt-tab when the issues occur and write those temps down. Then post them here.
Besides that, I use this CPU cooler for my system. CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 (CW-9060007-WW) Water Cooler - Newegg.com
It is amazing. My temps for my CPU are 18C idling.
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09-18-13, 01:24 AM #5Re: Looking to Buy a Water Cooling system
If you want to water cool both your CPU and GPU, you would need to look into a custom water cooling loop. For this, you would need all of the following:
CPU Water Block
GPU Water Block
Water Pump
Water Reservoir
Radiator (possibly 2 - 1 for CPU, 1 for GPU)
Barbs or Compression Fittings
Tubing
Based on my past experiences, getting into a custom water cooling loop will cost you about $500 when it is all said and done. That being said, it may not be worth spending that kind of cash on an aging AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition. For $500, you could buy a whole new CPU/Board/Memory that would wipe the floor of that Phenom.
Now, as others have mentioned... If your CPU temps are the main concern, the Corsair H100i is a great cooler. For your GPU, you could clean it with some compressed air, or even take off the CPU heat sink and apply some new thermal compound to the GPU and reseat the heat sink.
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09-19-13, 04:41 PM #7
Re: Looking to Buy a Water Cooling system
Cleaned out my system but there wasn't much dirt, I had just cleaned it a less than couple months ago.
I added one more fan to the front of my case but am still having the same issues......after a few rounds of play my FPS drop to the teens.
As some of you know I play on 3 different systems, Home, Work and a Laptop. It is now doing the same on all three so I am thinking it is a file/software issues. I am currently deleting all CSGO files and reinstalling them.Last edited by Gunny; 09-19-13 at 04:43 PM.
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09-19-13, 04:55 PM #8
Re: Looking to Buy a Water Cooling system
I was thinking about going ahead and upgrading my CPU to the following and adding a water cooler to just the CPU.
I am thinking that this will help with BF4.
AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX - Newegg.com
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09-19-13, 05:48 PM #9Re: Looking to Buy a Water Cooling system
enf-Jesus its been like 12 minutes and you're already worried about stats?! :-P
Bigdog-Sweet home Alabama you are an idiot.
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