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I saw a video recently talking about how water takes longer to heat up than other substances, like metal for example.  Apparently it takes a long time for the liquid in a cooling system to heat up, but it does because not all of the heat gets dissipated by the radiator.

I assume (possibly with extra pumps) that it should be possible to just add more radiators, or add larger ones, or both.  One could potentially add a ridiculous number of radiators outside of a PC, maybe even making a whole second box full of just radiators.  Wouldn't that make it possible to keep the liquid in the cooling system at near idle temperatures under full load?

That's the video I want to see.  I'm sure you have all the extra parts lying around anyway.

If it works for you, I would definitely, probably, try it too to get some extra performance out of my VR system.  I need those max settings.

Thanks.

PS - If you can also point me in the general direction of getting some advice on identifying any bottlenecks or weak points in my system, that would be great.

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Who are you sure has enough parts to make a PC full of radiators? 

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You can add as many radiators as you like and it won't make a difference in CPU or GPU performance.  Overclocks aren't limited by temperature anymore.  We've gotten very good at cooling these hot chips.  With my system at full load my water temps hit 36c after about 30 minutes of saturation.  My CPU maxes out at about 65c.  That gives me a good 20c of overhead for raising clock speeds.  But I max at at about 4.6GHz.  The problem is power.  You have to increase the voltage to the CPU to increase the clock.  Once you hit a certain point you get "crosstalk" within the processor making it unstable. 

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