Originally posted by balsaman
What's with all the buzz on water cooling your computer these days? How much overclocking can you acheive this way?
Those are peices of art, not water blocks. 
Eric |
Overclocking typically gains about 20% in speed, but gains of 40-50% are not uncommon with standard cooling methods. I now call watercooling a 'standard' cooling method since it has become so popular.
For example, I was running an AMD AthlonXP 1600+ (1400 MHz default speed) at over 2000 MHz for about 2 years. That was a 42.9% increase in speed. Yes, the cooling system cost about $200 to build at the time, but it is still around, cooling a newer (and faster) processor. And, at the time it was built, you could not buy a 2000 MHz computer. So, basically people overclock their computers to get more than they paid for, and to have a faster computer.