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Old Oct 11, 2011, 04:00 AM   #21
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Water cooling will for sure give you better temps (With some very few exceptions) But a good Air Cooler Heat sink will give you very good results too without being so expensive.

To give you an example when I was running a i7 860 @ 4.2 Ghz and two HD 6950's On air the temps were

i7 @4.2Ghz = 79c With LinX stress test
6950's Stock =85c under stress test Kombustor.

Under Water same systems same tests....
i7@ 4.2Ghz = 65c With LinX Stress Test
6950's Stock = 41c Under Stress Test Kombustor.

As you can see a huge difference.... But also the Heat Sink was $70 bucks and the Water Cooling setup was about $300 or more.
So in the end it depends on what you are going for and what you want to accomplish.
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