But sometimes it is.
Right so for the safety and protection of those involved all names and companies have been renamed to

protect them... this is actually a HUGE LIE, nothing has been modified cause everything is jacked up!!

So the story starts out with me buying and building my almost dream PC (my dream PC would have had

2 "Duo 2 Core" 3.8GHz processors but I didn't really deem it necessary to throw out the extra cash)

but anyway, part of my dream PC was also a rocking liquid cooling kit. Now that I did throw the

money out for, in fact about $270 USD for it in fact. Now the CEO (John Lyon) of Cool-IT Systems

himself told me it would manage a Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor (641 Model), the receptionist at

the company told me it would, John the Tech Support guy told me it would... it didn't... it leaked on my

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Graphics Card (at the time it was thee best GPU and cost me $475 - I had

gotten a coupon for it ). So I freaked out and sent it to them for repairs, John Lyon told me their

liquid in the kits had frozen in the warehouse... I believed him, got the kit back... it leaked again, except

this time a LOT worse, half of the card was covered with their pretty blue liquid that made me scream

like a blonde in a horror film. It also leaked on my Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Sound

Card, my Western Digital Raptor-X 150GB hard drive and 1 drop on my Intel D975 XBX 2

Motherboard, and of course all over the bottom of the case. The system runs ok minus the fact that I

get a slow down on certain areas of "Hitman: Blood Money" and it took me a long time to figure out for

a hundred percent certainty if it was in fact the spill or the drivers or the game etc. (with PC software it

is always something, is it not?).
So what is my point to all this you ask??... Good question. My point is that after this I did some

studying and as it turns out a $24.00 USD copper processor heat sink, with 80mm fan at the front of the

case and a 120mm fan at the read of the case, cools almost twice as well as their FreeZone liquid

cooling kit. On top of that it won't LITERALLY fall apart (the tube MELTED and the little metal sign

FELL OFF!! - while playing Hitman: Blood Money) and the fans won't ever leak blue stuff all over your

beautiful and might I add EXPENSIVE PC!!

I spent a fortune last summer on my liquid cooling system (all details in my profile),
and to be honest, there's not much of a gap in the difference. OC is 3.80GHz, the temps
idle at mid to late 30's which i think is s**t. I expect 20c+. But the 2x120MM rads are
cooled by 2x120mm fans. 3x120mm fans in front, and a further 2 more at the rear.
I have the huuuuuuuge Thermaltake Mozart case which'll allow heat to rise more efficiently.
I have friends who have a same CPU (Q6600 Rev G0) and they achieve similar temps
with their quality HSF's.

To get the results I wanna achieve, in theory, I have to chill my liquid in both the res and
the Rads, and keep it constant. 5c to 10c idle would be a blessing for me. Havin 2
fans on rads, really isn't gonna make much of a difference compared to hfs's. Somin
that I've noticed over time and been proved by my friends systems.

During Prime, or games, it raises to 50's and mids. Before i liquid cooled, I my assumptions
were very low temps. So after this water cooling experience, I have to rethink for
my future build and how I can obtain low temps without being to extreme.