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Aquarius II Water cooling
Hi all,
My current setup pumps out a serious amount of noise. I have a zalman flower cooler on the CPU which is dead quiet but have to have two fans for the intake and exhause to keey the case temp down. The CPU idles at about 45 and the case temp at 30 degrees C. I often have heavy computations to run on the system, which increases the CPU into the 50's and the case temp into the 40's. Hence the need for the powerful fans. What I want to do is to do away with the fans to make a silent system. My question is, if I get a water cooling system, the Aquarius II, can I fit a Hard Drive water cooling block to it and will this mean then that the only fan I need in the system is the radiator fan? Cheers, Nick |
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"Nick Young" wrote
My current setup pumps out a serious amount of noise. I have a zalman flower cooler on the CPU which is dead quiet but have to have two fans for the intake and exhause to keey the case temp down. The CPU idles at about 45 and the case temp at 30 degrees C. I often have heavy computations to run on the system, which increases the CPU into the 50's and the case temp into the 40's. Hence the need for the powerful fans. What I want to do is to do away with the fans to make a silent system. My question is, if I get a water cooling system, the Aquarius II, can I fit a Hard Drive water cooling block to it and will this mean then that the only fan I need in the system is the radiator fan? Unfortunately I've found that you still need case fans when watercooling or a whole bunch of other components on the motherboard run ridiculously hot. Plus the PSU needs at least some airflow through it. I do drop all the fans to 7 Volts but my systems aren't silent... Ciao... [UK]_Nick... |
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"David Walker" wrote in message ... That should remove most of the heat, with only really the PSU and the northbridge of the motherboard still pumping out heat - David, A word of caution. On my IT7 Max2 v2, the Northbridge temperature soared upwards when I introduced water cooling to the CPU. The reason: as it is located not far from the CPU, it relies on some of the airflow from the CPU fan cooler to take away stale air from its small heatsink. I found it necessary to direct airflow from a fan onto the Northbridge to bring the temperature back down again. My advice: measure Northbridge temperature pre-and post watercooling and if necessary take additional cooling measures. What about a Northbridge cooling block? Tony |
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"Tony Scott" wrote in message ... "David Walker" wrote in message ... That should remove most of the heat, with only really the PSU and the northbridge of the motherboard still pumping out heat - David, A word of caution. On my IT7 Max2 v2, the Northbridge temperature soared upwards when I introduced water cooling to the CPU. The reason: as it is located not far from the CPU, it relies on some of the airflow from the CPU fan cooler to take away stale air from its small heatsink. I found it necessary to direct airflow from a fan onto the Northbridge to bring the temperature back down again. My advice: measure Northbridge temperature pre-and post watercooling and if necessary take additional cooling measures. What about a Northbridge cooling block? Yeah, could do that too. I'll see how hot it gets and if its much worse i'll add a block for northbridge too. Mine (an A7N8X-Deluxe) does have quite a big heatsink on there, so i might play around with fans too - something for me to watch and be careful about anyway. Thanks David |
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I always watercool Northbridges for overclocking stability but haven't
bothered with any graphics card since a Voodoo5 5500 that wouldn't run properley when watercooled. HDDs I've only found to get too hot when they have little or no air passing over them - even a 60mm fan on 7V seems sufficient to cool 4+ HDDs adequately as long as the air is ducted over them, so I haven't bothered with watercooling them either. I wasn't planning on overclocking heavily really, the watercooling is more to reduce the noise. Then again, if I can get a lot more out of it by watercooling the northbridge, then I might as well do that too. My hard drives do tend to run quite hot, and often have quite intensive access on them for long periods of time, so I prefer to keep them cooled - apart from anything else it should reduce the risk of failure and data loss, and will take quite a bit of heat out of the case. At the minute I have two 80mm fans blowing over the three hard disks, usually running at ~8v, but I switch them to full speed if i'm doing any big file transfers or anything with intensive disk activity. My graphics card (an ATI 8500DV) really does need cooling though - at the minute its got a buzzy little fan on, so I want to remove that and watercool that too. Again noise is my major concern. Thanks for the advice anyway - seems like a watercooled northbridge is the way to go. David |
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This thing gets No respect- no one will take it seriously due to its
small caliber tubing (5/16" ID). I must tell you that I adore this thing- I keep a twin pair in case I decide to run parallel circuits with a waterblock on my VGA chip. But at present I have one block on my P4-2.6C and the radiator is submerged in a bucket of cold water. The bucket is styrofoam in the summer and copper in the winter. I run my 2.6 at 3.2 GHz and it stays quite chilly (80F at idle, and 100F at 100% load with multiThreading.) It's silent, of course, but also cheap , small, and elegant. I love it. -- Valid spambot resistant address: deanATyniDOTnet |
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