In the past 4-5 months I have been enjoying my new system that I built completely from scratch. It is, without a doubt, the best gaming rig I have ever had, and I am very proud of it. It's my pride and joy, but my pride and joy has one problem... and I think it's a pretty big problem, or at least it potentially could be: OVERHEATING.
I ordered all of the parts of my system off of newegg, and when I ordered these parts I also ordered something else that I figured would be very useful considering I was getting a video card and a processor that would probably get pretty hot if used repeatedly (and I use my computer constantly.) I ordered a pretty fancy, $130 liquid cooling system. Now, just from looking at the thing in a small picture on newegg, I figured it would be pretty simple to assemble and I wasn't intimidated by it in the least, but then I receive it in the mail. When I received it, I waited to try and put it together until after I got everything else with my system put together.
After a couple of days (it probably would've taken many of you guys only a couple of hours, I know ), my system was built, it looked beautiful. But then there was the big elephant in the room: my $130 liquid cooling system, unopened. I sort of looked at it, sitting there in the box, and then I looked at my computer. I looked at it again, then looked at my computer again. I started thinking to myself "Have we really come to the point with computer technology that we have to actually install liquid cooling systems in our computers to keep them cool because of the overheating parts?"
I thought about it, and thought about it, and thought about it some more. I came to the conclusion that I spent way too much money on my new system to even think about installing a number of tubes with liquid running through them in my system. I simply did NOT like the idea of having liquids that close to my precious new video card, processor, RAM, hard drive, etc. Call me old-fashioned and perhaps needlessly worrisome, but I just didn't like it.
Add to all of this the fact that I had NEVER assembled a liquid cooling system before, and by this point I had completely made up my mind. After all, my computer couldn't POSSIBLY overheat THAT much, could it? Right? Little did I know just how hot these fancy new video cards and multi-core processors could get. At any rate, I contacted newegg and I sent the liquid cooling system back to them and I got my $130 back. Now, at the time, I had thought this was a good idea. But was it? I still don't know.
Since then, I have had numerous overheating episodes with my system, and it's not getting any better. Most of you are probably going to laugh at what I'm about to tell you, but it's true. During extremely cold winter days, my system has actually overheated so much that I have actually cracked the window in my office and let below-freezing air blow into the office to help keep the temperature of my system to a minimum. Surprisingly, this has actually helped a lot. When my computer overheats, it gets VERY loud, and keeping the window cracked to allow the cold air to blow in has been very helpful in keeping my computer both quiet, and cool. Yeah, trust me, wearing a heavy sweater and a wool cap in your office gets old and uncomfortable after a while.
Needless to say, I do not want to resort to these extreme measures whenever my computer overheats. I mean, what am I going to do during the warmer months of the year? My system will turn my office into a veritable sauna!
Am I the only one who has this anxiety in regard to liquid cooling systems? Are there liquid cooling systems that are very trustworthy and won't leak liquid onto my expensive computer parts? Am I just staunchly old-fashioned and annoying all of you with my banter?
Please let me know what you guys think about all of this, and let me know if you guys have had similar problems with your systems overheating and how you deal with it effectively.
I really really REALLY need to find a way to keep my system cool. If I absolutely have no choice but to turn to liquid cooling, then fine, I probably will. But if there are alternatives that do not involve running liquid-pumping tubes through my system, I would love to hear what they are and decide which one would be the most realistic for me and my system.
Please, guys. Help me. Before my computer melts the plastic off of my tower.
I ordered all of the parts of my system off of newegg, and when I ordered these parts I also ordered something else that I figured would be very useful considering I was getting a video card and a processor that would probably get pretty hot if used repeatedly (and I use my computer constantly.) I ordered a pretty fancy, $130 liquid cooling system. Now, just from looking at the thing in a small picture on newegg, I figured it would be pretty simple to assemble and I wasn't intimidated by it in the least, but then I receive it in the mail. When I received it, I waited to try and put it together until after I got everything else with my system put together.
After a couple of days (it probably would've taken many of you guys only a couple of hours, I know ), my system was built, it looked beautiful. But then there was the big elephant in the room: my $130 liquid cooling system, unopened. I sort of looked at it, sitting there in the box, and then I looked at my computer. I looked at it again, then looked at my computer again. I started thinking to myself "Have we really come to the point with computer technology that we have to actually install liquid cooling systems in our computers to keep them cool because of the overheating parts?"
I thought about it, and thought about it, and thought about it some more. I came to the conclusion that I spent way too much money on my new system to even think about installing a number of tubes with liquid running through them in my system. I simply did NOT like the idea of having liquids that close to my precious new video card, processor, RAM, hard drive, etc. Call me old-fashioned and perhaps needlessly worrisome, but I just didn't like it.
Add to all of this the fact that I had NEVER assembled a liquid cooling system before, and by this point I had completely made up my mind. After all, my computer couldn't POSSIBLY overheat THAT much, could it? Right? Little did I know just how hot these fancy new video cards and multi-core processors could get. At any rate, I contacted newegg and I sent the liquid cooling system back to them and I got my $130 back. Now, at the time, I had thought this was a good idea. But was it? I still don't know.
Since then, I have had numerous overheating episodes with my system, and it's not getting any better. Most of you are probably going to laugh at what I'm about to tell you, but it's true. During extremely cold winter days, my system has actually overheated so much that I have actually cracked the window in my office and let below-freezing air blow into the office to help keep the temperature of my system to a minimum. Surprisingly, this has actually helped a lot. When my computer overheats, it gets VERY loud, and keeping the window cracked to allow the cold air to blow in has been very helpful in keeping my computer both quiet, and cool. Yeah, trust me, wearing a heavy sweater and a wool cap in your office gets old and uncomfortable after a while.
Needless to say, I do not want to resort to these extreme measures whenever my computer overheats. I mean, what am I going to do during the warmer months of the year? My system will turn my office into a veritable sauna!
Am I the only one who has this anxiety in regard to liquid cooling systems? Are there liquid cooling systems that are very trustworthy and won't leak liquid onto my expensive computer parts? Am I just staunchly old-fashioned and annoying all of you with my banter?
Please let me know what you guys think about all of this, and let me know if you guys have had similar problems with your systems overheating and how you deal with it effectively.
I really really REALLY need to find a way to keep my system cool. If I absolutely have no choice but to turn to liquid cooling, then fine, I probably will. But if there are alternatives that do not involve running liquid-pumping tubes through my system, I would love to hear what they are and decide which one would be the most realistic for me and my system.
Please, guys. Help me. Before my computer melts the plastic off of my tower.