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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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"Gareth Tuckwell" wrote in message ... 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 -- Apollo |
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"Gareth Tuckwell" wrote in message ... 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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