Water Cooling Myths

Debunking Common Myths @ overclockers

Great FAQ. A must read for anyone considering water cooling for the first time. I especially like the ones relating to temperature and measurement. I've been screaming this for a LONG time...

Accurate enough I'd say.

For example comparing a nascar to the heat exchange process. Its a bit more complicated than THAT. Not VERY complicated, just a bad analogy in my opinion.

But all in all, this stuff is good information for the average first timer.

there should be a thread about phase change units(like age, temps, etc....)

Check the last post dates!

Does that still apply to stickys?

I thought sticky's were up and always stay up, no reason not to post......even if it is after a year, lol.

thought it was august 30th 2005

Did he contribute anything relevant to the existing thread? If he wanted a thread about phase change cooling then why not say so in the local pub or extreme cooling?

"The water in a watercooling cannot get any lower than the temperature of the air around the watercooling system flowing through the radiator."

I find my self questioning this.

Heh you revived a really old thread, but in response no in a regular watercooling system the water can not get cooler then the surrounding air, there are actually radiators now that are cooled electronically which allow for this. But heat flows from warmer areas to cooler areas, once the water is the temperature of the surrounding air they are in an equilibrium and there is not heat flow.

But any type of cooling system, whether tis for computers, buildings, cars, etc. is in opposition to the natural tendency for heat to go to equilibrium. Am I right?

No really, it really depends on the kind of cooling. For computers, like air cooling at water cooling, the components, mainly the cpu but out way more heat then what would be the surrounding room temperature. So their job is to dissipate the extra heat as fast as possible to reach the equilibrium, that is even the same with cars and the extra build up of heat from the engine. As for like air conditioning they use compressors and such in order to absorb the heat from the air, like what happens in a refrigirator, and then uses that cooled off air to go below the equilibrium. Its completely different, that is what phase change cooling for computers does, its really the only every day solution to sub room temperature temps for your comp, which it achieves by using a compressor to absorb the extra heat.