InterlinkModule
Technical User
Just snagged a Zalman liquid cooler (Reserator 1 Plus). Are these things worth it? I'm planning on using it to cool my AMD Athlon 64 FX60 (dual core). It currently idles at 44C with the stock fan and 48-49C at load (playing Obivlion for several hours). Here is my system stats:
ASUS AN8-SLI Premium w/ fanless heatpipe chipset
geforce 7900 GTX PCI-e w/ 512 megs
150 gig Raptor SATA
300 gig Seagate SATA
(both moutned behind 80mm case fan)
Can this cooler connect to my vid card? It has a VGA cooling block....and if I get my temps down will I have increased performance? Another reason I want to do it is cause of the noise. I have extremely sensitive hearing. Can even tell if one of the fans is spinning faster than usual. I'd remove the rear case fan, CPU fan (obviously) and even the geforce fan (is this recommended? anyone done this before?) I'd love to liquid cool my vid card. That'd leave just two, the fan in front of the hard drives and a side fan to exhaust that and blow right into the cooling tower.
opinions wanted please! 
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ASUS AN8-SLI Premium w/ fanless heatpipe chipset
geforce 7900 GTX PCI-e w/ 512 megs
150 gig Raptor SATA
300 gig Seagate SATA
(both moutned behind 80mm case fan)
Can this cooler connect to my vid card? It has a VGA cooling block....and if I get my temps down will I have increased performance? Another reason I want to do it is cause of the noise. I have extremely sensitive hearing. Can even tell if one of the fans is spinning faster than usual. I'd remove the rear case fan, CPU fan (obviously) and even the geforce fan (is this recommended? anyone done this before?) I'd love to liquid cool my vid card. That'd leave just two, the fan in front of the hard drives and a side fan to exhaust that and blow right into the cooling tower.
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