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Water Cooling?
mobrien_12:
Ok, when I first heard about water cooling, I was thinking it was a pretty stupid idea. Putting a conductive liquid inside your very expensive electronic equipment...
Well anyway, I'm getting really sick of computer noise. I've tried things like fan-throttling power supplies (like Antec Trupower series), spacious, well-ventilated cases, and adding those little shock absorber gasket thingies to the fan and power supply mounts to deaden vibrations. They help, but I know if I build a new box, the latest cpu and graphics cards put out so much heat that the noise would be much much worse.
So I start to think about water.
Who here has water cooling? Does it make the box that much quieter? Is it really complicated and risky? Did you just water cool just the cpu or both the cpu and gpu? Does the power supply fan or hard drive noise still get annoying??
piratePenguin:
I remember I was gonna ask a similar question here before when I was interested in upgrading this machine (which I never did).
I only have one fan on the CPU and don't have it set to full speed (I don't have it overclocked) so I don't get too much noise but I'd still love to get rid of the bit that's there.
I once had this (not revolutionary) idea - and it would be great if you absolutely HATED noise - to keep the computer in another room, just have the monitor, kb, mouse and if you like external cd/dvd-drive (I don't use these much so I wouldn't bother with them) and whatever else you want in the room you're in.
I might do that when I'm older - but I'll probably just have one (or more) beast of a machine in a room on it's own and a bunch of shitty, quiet, low-power X terminals (or Y terminals if Y windows ever come along) around the house (connected wirelessly).
Lead Head:
you might want to check out the Zalman vf-900 heatsink or the AC Accelero for GPU Cooling, an SI-120 or Big Typhoon for CPU, A PSU with 120MM fan, and a few Yate Loon case fans=Silent System
H_TeXMeX_H:
I'm not sure, but I don't think it's pure water they use ... it's coolant (~50-70 % water) but still if the pipes rupture you may be in trouble. Never heard of this happening though. Here's a few examples of what they look like:
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=76
http://www.xoxide.com/watcoolkit.html
and a good explanation of pros and cons:
http://compreviews.about.com/od/cpus/a/LiquidCooling.htm
--- Quote --- So is liquid cooling worth the trouble?
At this stage of the market, liquid cooling is still only really effective for those people who are interested in over clocking their computers well beyond what air cooling will allow. Due to the size and difficulty of the installations for liquid cooling, it is not advised for general system use. There are many effective heat pipe designs being developed now that will cool off the current CPUs on the market without the noise from a large number of high speed fans.
If CPU speeds continue to increase and no new thermal breakthroughs are discovered in regards to CPU construction, I believe that liquid cooling will begin to become more common in standard system construction. This is going to be particularly true if PC systems are going to be integrated into consumer electronics such as home theater. People are sensitive to noise when watching movies or listening to music, so any system integrated into this environment must be able to run as quietly as possible.
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Pathos:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---Who here has water cooling? Does it make the box that much quieter?
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You still will need decent air cooling for the gfx cards won't you ?
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