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Old October 11th 04, 05:41 PM
Gareth Tuckwell
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Default Water cooling - noise level?

How noisey is a water cooling setup?

The loudest thing in my PC at the moment is my Samsung Spinpoint hard disk -
which incidentally is pretty quiet. If I upgrade the processor and graphics
card, they won't be cooled sufficiently by the Zalman heatsinks and large,
slow fans that I have now, so I would have to look at water cooling. I know
the pump makes a noise, but how loud is it and what kind of noise - annoying
whine or quiet deep rumble?


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Old October 11th 04, 06:28 PM
Apollo
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"Gareth Tuckwell" wrote in message
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How noisey is a water cooling setup?

The loudest thing in my PC at the moment is my Samsung Spinpoint hard
disk - which incidentally is pretty quiet. If I upgrade the processor
and graphics card, they won't be cooled sufficiently by the Zalman
heatsinks and large, slow fans that I have now, so I would have to
look at water cooling. I know the pump makes a noise, but how loud is
it and what kind of noise - annoying whine or quiet deep rumble?


You could go for a Zalman resorator, you won't hear it, but then again
the amount of cooling from them is complete crap, even compared to good
air cooling.

If you're willing to spend a fair amount you can get a near silent water
cooled setup. Bear in mind that the pumps, rads and resevoirs are all
quite big for proper water cooling and you will need a BIG case to fit
it all inside.

Look here;
http://www.coolercases.co.uk/water_c...erden_kits.htm
for rough cost.

I chose the RBX Ultimate Plus, it performs very well but the pump (Laing
D4) is just about audible, I believe the Eheim pumps are virtually
silent though. If I had to do it again I'd choose TDX / Eheim, but my
setup does the job. I also changed the single 120mm (v.noisy) fan for a
pair of papst 120's running about 9 volts.

Some pics here;
http://www.ian-dunbar.co.uk/water-images/
You'll notice that there's two types of hose - the Dangerden hose
wouldn't do the curves I needed, the Tygon stuff is much more flexible
and I'd recommend using that throughout.

I have a big(ish) case and just got it all to fit, cpu, northbridge and
gpu all water cooled, it took a couple of days to fit it and get all of
the cables tidied away etc.

HTH

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Apollo


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Old October 12th 04, 02:17 AM
terry smith
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"Gareth Tuckwell" wrote in message
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How noisey is a water cooling setup?

The loudest thing in my PC at the moment is my Samsung Spinpoint hard

disk -
which incidentally is pretty quiet. If I upgrade the processor and

graphics
card, they won't be cooled sufficiently by the Zalman heatsinks and large,
slow fans that I have now, so I would have to look at water cooling. I

know
the pump makes a noise, but how loud is it and what kind of noise -

annoying
whine or quiet deep rumble?


I have a sumsung too and that is quiet. Can't help on the rest.




 




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