I'm wondering if liquid CPU coolers do any peripheral cooling as well. I'd imagine not, because with the fan pulling air through the radiator I would reason that there's less airflow.
I currently have an NES-PC build with a Zalman CPU air cooler that also does peripheral cooling, as well as a 80mm Noctua that pulls air off of my GPU. My current build is great, but I'm thinking about getting an unlocked processor and doing some overclocking. Even if the liquid cooler didn't provide much airflow, the 80mm kicks air around enough that peripherals would probably be fine.
As a side note, are there any liquid coolers that mount both your cpu and dGpu (with only one radiator). My CPU and GPU are so close to each other (mini itx board) that something like that would seem possible to me.
As another side note, would cooler temps mean less overall power consumption? Every watt counts with my 300w power brick.
Btw I don't have any experience with liquid cooling.
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NES-HTPC
Intel i7-3770s
Radeon 7750
8 GB Crucial RAM
256GB Crucial mSata
750GB Seagate Hybrids SSD HDD
WiFi, Bluetooth, Xbox Wireless Receiver, CEC Adapter
I currently have an NES-PC build with a Zalman CPU air cooler that also does peripheral cooling, as well as a 80mm Noctua that pulls air off of my GPU. My current build is great, but I'm thinking about getting an unlocked processor and doing some overclocking. Even if the liquid cooler didn't provide much airflow, the 80mm kicks air around enough that peripherals would probably be fine.
As a side note, are there any liquid coolers that mount both your cpu and dGpu (with only one radiator). My CPU and GPU are so close to each other (mini itx board) that something like that would seem possible to me.
As another side note, would cooler temps mean less overall power consumption? Every watt counts with my 300w power brick.
Btw I don't have any experience with liquid cooling.
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NES-HTPC
Intel i7-3770s
Radeon 7750
8 GB Crucial RAM
256GB Crucial mSata
750GB Seagate Hybrids SSD HDD
WiFi, Bluetooth, Xbox Wireless Receiver, CEC Adapter