Wet and Chilly Chips / Water Cooling

[Technoid]

There are watercooled wersions of that box
Aquacooling got one if I remember correctly

[GNEP]

Thanks Tech. It's the relatively high-pitched spindle spinning type noise. Not hugely loud; just bothers me...

[Paddy]

Nice find DM, I'll have a look there now... what rig do you have, and what did it cost to make it silent? (if you don't mind me asking )

[GNEP]

Well it's kind of bits and bobs. PSU I got a seasonic super tornado for about 40 quid (but needed one anyway)... then this watercooling kit 140 quid... in a dodgy old case that I don't mind messing with so might stick some foam to soon.

All this on an Athlon 2000+ which now runs happily cool at 1800MHz (stock is 1667) although I haven't even tried it higher yet. Plus Parhelia, a coupla HDDs (one 5400 which is quiet, and a noisy 7200), and a DVD and a CDRW both of which don't make noise when their empty.

By the way I do have a secondary system of a duron 1200 with onboard graphics - with the same seasonic PSU and a cheapo coolermaster 80mmHSF it really is v. v. v. v. v. v. quiet indeed - but then there is almost bugger all else in the case apart from a 5400 HDD and a CR-ROM drive. No PCI or AGP cards at all so no other fans apart from the CPU one and the big one in the PSU.

[GNEP]

Oh and the addition of a voltage switch for the fans or a device like the Zalman FanMate is a great help if you want to leave a machine on say overnight but want it at full wack during the day.

[Paddy]

I need to do somthing... I leave my computer on 24/7 and I do notice the noise at night.... I'll look into it after my wedding - if I have any cash left.

[DentyCracker]

You'll not have any dosh left Paddy.

[Fat Tone]

Originally posted by Paddy
I need to do somthing... I leave my computer on 24/7 and I do notice the noise at night.... I'll look into it after my wedding - if I have any cash left.

Married, with spare cash? Mwahahahahahaha

[KvHagedorn]

Re: Wet and Chilly Chips / Water Cooling

Originally posted by GNEP
...as I like to have a bit of a fiddle with my bits...

hmm.. more info than we really needed to know..

[Rakido]

Originally posted by Paddy
I need to do somthing... I leave my computer on 24/7 and I do notice the noise at night.... I'll look into it after my wedding - if I have any cash left.

oh, you live in an other universum, where the impossible is possible?


Rakido

[Paddy]

hmm... Andrea managed to spend £105 on what looks to me like a lipstick and some powdery stuff.... I deliberatly kept my cool... until the PC upgrade anyway

[Fat Tone]

now if that powdery stuff can go in - rather than on - the nose, she probably got a good deal

[GNEP]

Hehe...

[Paddy]

ohhh... i'll just check

[NuGGeTTi]

i got my Water cooling today still waiting for my lian li pc70 case though i got a custom water setup with custom made copper block Black ice radiator with the place of 1 12cm fan not 2! and a eheim 600l/h pump and sum custom reservoir and tubing now jsut that case ! it allways grants to get custom this custom cost me 150€and i promise ill get better results with it :P!