water cooling help

[justinupsm]

ram

A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

video

HIS H575Q1GD Radeon HD 5750 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP

cpu

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor

motherboard

ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

2 ssds

OCZ Vertex LE (Limited Edition) OCZSSD2-1VTXLE50G 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)


i want to water cool the video, CPU,and chipset

any suggestions 

[Calum]

There's no advantage to watercooling your specific system.
The card doesn't need it, and for the price of watercooling it why not just buy a decent card?
Chipset doesn't need it, doesn't run hot enough.
CPU doesn't need it, high end air cooling is more than sufficient to clock most Thubans as high as they will go (if you're doing this for overclocking).

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

And unlike air-cooled systems, water-cooling requires periodic maintenance.

[Calum]

You don't clean your air-cooling...?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Maybe once or twice a year i'll clean my cooling pads, but no. I primarily use laptop computers and my desktop fans are in excellent condition....like in a clean-room.....

[Calum]

The rest of us live in a world with dust ... I clean my desktop (and laptop, if I've used it) every month because I have pets and a very dusty room, doesn't matter how often I vacuum the carpet.  Without fan filters, like with my old Antec 900 case, the dust was unmanageable.
For most people, cleaning every 6 months or so should be fine, so watercooling doesn't really involve much more maintenance than air, what little there is is certainly outweighed by the advantages (when used wisely, i.e. not in the OP's system).

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

My friend has a liquid cooling system that uses beer. He has to keep filling up the tank every two-three weeks. Sounds more expensive that cleaning fans....

[Calum]

Beer?  Most people use, uh, water ... implied in the name.  Topping up a system every 2-3 weeks means he's got serious problems with leaking or evaporation, I suggest he looks into that.  Bringng costs into the argument is meaningless anyhow, I thought we were talking about the need for "periodic maintenance".  There's no question that watercooling is more exensive than air, at least initially - most things that are better do cost more.

[RubiK]

Topping up a system every 2-3 weeks means he's got serious problems with leaking or evaporation,

Or it's just a computer that likes its drink? 

[rthompson80819]

My friend has a liquid cooling system that uses beer. He has to keep filling up the tank every two-three weeks.

Now that's funny.

I have this mental picture of one beer for the computer and five beers for me.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I'll have to re-check with him. He may have been screwing with me. I'll get back to you on that.


EDIT: Okay it is 3-part Tsingtao Beer and 1-part cooling liquid.

Interesting stuff.

[justinupsm]

well the video dose over heat and i spent to much money to just lay it to the side.

on the new egg site a review for it sad that his over heated and blue screened a lot he change the cooler out and it hasent did it since. thats what is going wrong with mine and i want to water cool it to try something new.

[Calum]

I say again - for the price of watercooling, buy a new, better card.
Or, go down the sensible route and RMA the card if it's overheating.

[justinupsm]

to late to rma.adn i find nothing wrong with the card it run everything i nedd on high settings

[Calum]

Nothing wrong, other than that the cooler doesn't work properly?  It's faulty.
What brand is the card?  I can't believe it's out of warranty.
Edit: Saw it's HIS, which offer a 2 year warranty.  Are you saying your 5770, released in October 2009, is over 2 years old?