and what's this obssesion with watercooling. An intel stock heatsink + cooler is all you need.
Ah.
Being in a country with median temperatures of 30C across the entire year i have seen unnoticed CPUs die early from overheating
Watercooling is meant for people to push the thermal envelopes of their CPU for the overclockers, if you ain't an overclocker you don't get it
Like example the stock heatsink with the low-end pentium Gs/775 pentium DCs are so hopeless i see 60C medium load, guess what i saw in prime95? 80C
I actually improved the temps with better thermal paste but it's still hopeless
Why do we want a larger cooler? Max junction temp recommended by intel for the IVB parts is only 67.4C (SB was 69.1C but still pretty low( plus IVB have awful thermal resistances from the die to the IHS and on top of that a 3770k actually draws much more than 77W (Something on the order of 100+W) with hyperthreading on
I have a pentium dual core E5700 here with a Deepcool Ice Edge Mini FS and it's running about 37C idle (Speedstep is turned off and i'm on 3.3GHz) and 30C intake in a pretty poor airflow case and 62C full load
Just to give you an idea at full load a i7-3770k on the stock 3770k cooler will hit 80C in my weather with optimal thermal paste application (The standard TIM will not spread properly)
And watercooling is usually meant for extreme everyday overclocks or great silent cooling (Just not the Corsair H100)
1 thing is missing from that post, shipped units versus failed unit's percentage.
i have a 2 year old vertex 2 with 8TB+ read/write data on it. sd life says it will work this way 8 more years, note this is with nand chips with 10k write cycles, i had a program which actually told you the write cycles and how much left but i dont remember its name or where i put it. btw write speads nowehere near the advertised value but half of its due to the amd stupid sata controller and half of the sandforce compressing algorithm
I thought everyone knows this by now, SATA 3 on AMD and Intel isn't too far apart (Z77 vs A85X) but sandforce's compression is the ones that make it saturate SATA3 but when faced with incompressible data you only have 2/3 max speed, not too bad. Still very fast
And those failure figures are shipped over failed units. OCZ SSDs consistently have the most failures