"Gareth Tuckwell" <ContactGT@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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
