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Aquaduct 360XT - Sufficient cooling?

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ScottishCaptain

Newbie

Aquaduct 360XT - Sufficient cooling?

Sunday, January 27th 2008, 3:11am

One last question before I decide if I'm going to go with the 360 XT.

I'm planning on building a system around a 680i Black Pearl motherboard (factory installed Innovatek waterblocks), and an 8800 Ultra/768MB Black Pearl video card (also with a built-in waterblock).

The processor will be a Q6600.

Will the Aquaduct 360XT handle this massive loop? With the motherboard, just about everything has a block on it- southbridge, northbridge, VRM's, and CPU. Throw in the 8800 Ultra, and that's a fair whack of heat to dissipate.

I'm still looking to keep the system reasonably quiet when it's idling. I don't care if it's revving up under load, but I should hope the Aquaduct wouldn't sit there at 100% all the time (if it can't handle the load).

So, will it work? Or am I maxing it out?

-SC

pharao

Moderator

Re: Aquaduct 360XT - Sufficient cooling?

Sunday, January 27th 2008, 11:28am

I'd even say an Aquaduct 240 might do it - but the AD360 will be fine.

btw: the AD 240 handles 500W, the AD360 handles 700W.
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divve

Junior Member

Re: Aquaduct 360XT - Sufficient cooling?

Sunday, January 27th 2008, 8:10pm

Provided you don't expect a higher range (+25%) CPU overclock it should meet the expectations you've stated.

ScottishCaptain

Newbie

Re: Aquaduct 360XT - Sufficient cooling?

Monday, January 28th 2008, 1:24am

Aha. That's what I was looking for- the maximum dissipation (watts). I'm surprised Aqua Computer doesn't have that anywhere on the product page.

I'm actually going with a dual Opteron (125W/piece) setup, and two 8800GTS's, which is still far under 700W. Gonna be one heck of a system...

Thanks!
-SC

pharao

Moderator

Re: Aquaduct 360XT - Sufficient cooling?

Monday, January 28th 2008, 9:06am

Quoted from "ScottishCaptain"

Aha. That's what I was looking for- the maximum dissipation (watts). I'm surprised Aqua Computer doesn't have that anywhere on the product page.

I got that Information from the - Aquaduct-Flyer unfortunately german only.
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