Fear of Liquid Cooling

[Patriote]

Indeed! Nice Pics! Thats quite a cool passion. Rare are the ones that have this passion!

[omgwtf]

the water cooling is too damn expensive for me at this time, I think I'm gonna stay on air cooling for a while..Heh if you have 4X12cm coolers and one of 20cm why the hell do you want liquid cooling eh?

[Patriote]

Originally Posted by omgwtf

the water cooling is too damn expensive for me at this time, I think I'm gonna stay on air cooling for a while..Heh if you have 4X12cm coolers and one of 20cm why the hell do you want liquid cooling eh?

Um...Silence maybe ?

[Babrbarossa]

hehe- my water cooling sounds a bit like a vacuum cleaner- wouldn't trade it for any TEC kit though

[Patriote]

Mine is ultra silent when i want it to be thought...lol Well, you can see this in my lil video i recorded in my worklog.

[3.0charlie]

The rigs I build for my customers are very quiet - the most critical item is the location of the pump. Lastly I've been using Antec P180 cases and found that the pump located between the PSU and the lower HD chamber has the lowest dB of all.

Add 1 intake fan for the HDDs, 1 on top for the blow hole and 2 of the rad. No more noise.

I really do like the Swiftech kit that Patriote mentionned - very efficient start-up kit, and very easy to upgrade since the pump and rad combo can handle a whole lot more.

Heck, it's the same components as the Ultra+ kit... once you're ready, add GPU and NB blocks to your loop and voila.

Here's one of the rigs I've build - http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/9866-post11.html

John

[Babrbarossa]

Yeah- I don't have a fan speed controller and I don't really feel the need as the noise isn't enough to bother me and I like the 24/7 cooling- I have three 38mm thick panaflos blowing 70cf/m along with 3X120mm case fans and an 80mm side fan-- but the noisiest component of all is the Coolit memory cooler with it's little 50mm fan (whiny little bastard)

[omgwtf]

I want a water cooling kit too Who wants to loan me 300 bucks?..

[Supergrover]

Quiet? quiet? Everything is quiet since my Tornado days now those suckers were loud, cooled like a SOB though.
Fan controllers were a must. I think they pulled 119cfm but my memory is a little fuzzy. Been looking @ case fans today, ;-/

[3.0charlie]

Originally Posted by Babrbarossa

Yeah- I don't have a fan speed controller and I don't really feel the need as the noise isn't enough to bother me and I like the 24/7 cooling- I have three 38mm thick panaflos blowing 70cf/m along with 3X120mm case fans and an 80mm side fan-- but the noisiest component of all is the Coolit memory cooler with it's little 50mm fan (whiny little bastard)

I've never used a fan controller - I always set-up my fan speeds through the BIOS. I like clean cases and always found that fan controllers were too much for me.

If you want a real quiet fan, try this one: 60mm Delta. Delta 60x10mm Low Speed 13 CFM, 24dBA. I've bought a few times from Sidewinder Computers - great service and shipping.

John