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11-20-2004, 07:45 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004
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 |  Xoxide Liquid HDD Cooler*anyone use it* I wanted to know if anyone has it or has used it in the past. I might buy this instead of the dual fan HDD cooler. |
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11-20-2004, 10:00 PM
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| Bacon-Soap Join Date: Oct 2004
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 | Only liquid HDD cooler I've used is a Koolance one.. my friend gave it to me after selling his koolance case. It cooled all right, but I found it a bit pointless. It added a lot of heat to the water cycle, and there's no reason for a hard drive to be water cooled.. it will last many years on air. Just make sure you've got good air circulating in the case. If you have 3 or 4 HDD's stacked with one mm in between then maybe you'd have a heat problem, but that would only lead to a shorter life for the hard drive. And to be frank, you will relplace that hard drive 2 or 3 times before it bit the dust. |
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11-20-2004, 10:06 PM
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| Cyrax Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Minnesota
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 | water cooling a hdd is useless and waste, since it only touches the sides and not where the real heat is coming from go with the hdd fan coolers |
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11-20-2004, 10:07 PM
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| Turtle is Back Super Moderator  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Rochester, NY
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 | it is actually pretty effective. the Asetek one is pretty good. The back of the HD also gets pretty hot under load |
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11-20-2004, 10:07 PM
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| Bacon-Soap Join Date: Oct 2004
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| The koolance one actually covers the bottom in a silicon paste that transfers the heat to a big plate. Works well if cooling HDD's is your priority |
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11-20-2004, 10:21 PM
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| Banned  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sea-Tac
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Pwn3d b1tch! o_O I forsee myself getting a water block for hard drives soon....the reason being S-ATA(10000RPM) or SCSI(15000 RPM). I don't know about you people and your fast-ass 7200RPM crap drives, but I don't trust them. I'm glad I have 5400RPM drives since they only get about as hot as my mainboard chipset. There is a reason to get these things, and it's due to insecurities such as the one above. O_o Quote:
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11-20-2004, 10:22 PM
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| Turtle is Back Super Moderator Join Date: May 2003 Location: Rochester, NY
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| um i have a fan. I've read reviews and the block lowered temps by quite a few degrees. I have the vortex and its really good |
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11-20-2004, 10:30 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sea-Tac
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o_O *reads previous post* O_o Needs another fan...-.-' | |
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11-21-2004, 12:22 PM
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| Bacon-Soap Join Date: Oct 2004
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erm, I've got 2 36GB Raptors in RAID (10000rpm, SATA) and it's not water cooled, nor is it lighting my mom on fire. put a fan in front of them and it'll be damn fine dude. Do you think they would make drives that stopped working under heat? Do you not think they test these things in extreme conditions to make sure they won't fail? That's like buying a car and the guy tells you "Oh, I forgot to mention.. you can't drive this car. It'll overheat" nuhhhh?? | |
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