Water cooling PCs

Anyone here tried water cooling their PC to get the noise down as low as possible?

I've got an 'ATHLON 3700+' in socket 939. An 'Asus' micro-atx motherboard and 'Silent Power' P/S. The case is a 'Silverstone' micro-atx case with about 12cm headroom above the CPU.

 

Unless you are seriously into overclocking it aint worth the bother.

 

Thanks penance,

Any recommendations on CPU fans / Coolers? That's the noisiest part of my PC by far.

 

I've tried a lot of these things. I think the best way to go is to get a fanless CPU and graphics card cooler (i.e. just a big heatsink) and a quiet 12cm fan cooled PSU. That way you only have a single large low speed fan in the system. The fanless CPU and GFX coolers expect there to be some air extraction in the system - I once tried to use them in a system that also had a fanless PSU and it just slowly got hotter and hotter, not surprisingly.

I have done my computer as above (Intel 2.8GHz core 2 duo & Radeon 2600XT ) and the nosiest things are the 2 hard drives.

You probably already know of this website - http://www.quietpc.com/

 

take a look at new DVR hard drives. Very very quiet.

 

DVR hard drives? Care to link?

I got a new 1TB drive recently and it is more quiet than my other drive.

 

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-gb/products/consumer_electronics/pipeline/

There are alternatives to Seagate.

 

A good place to hear about quiet computer components.

 

Thanks guys

I nipped into YoYo tech in London and got a 'Sythe' CPU fan. Together with actually enabling the fan control on my MB it is now quiet enough for government work.

 

Just boight my parents a re near silent PC compromising of the following spare parts I had in:-

AMD AM2 3800 X2
New MSI motherboard
New case
Used Antec 400W PSU
Used heatsink
New thermal paste

In the motherboard I then changed the settings so the CPU fan spins at 1100rpm unless the temperature rises above 40c. So far its the max temperature its got to is 34c and it typicay runs at 28c.

My desktop AM2 4200 X2 runs at around 11c at 1500rpm. If you use good thermal paste and a good power supply the fans won't make any more noise than a hard drive. My 8600GT video card is fanless.

 

Hi i have a water cooled quad core q6600 using OCZ and swiftech waterblocks alpha cool rads and 18v mod DDC pump

Reason for the setup was almost passive cooling

Works well for me very quiet

 

How can the CPU be running below room temperature (11C)? Do you have a peltier thing? Even with a fan it can only reach the same temp as the ambient air.

 

cool is good but you can be too cool! There must be an optimum temperature that the raw materials exhibit their best working characteristics - I'll take a semi educated guess at around 28degC.

 

He lives in the north, where the room temp isn't as pleasant as here .

 

Anyone here tried water cooling their PC to get the noise down as low as possible?


A new one on me.

I thought they all generally just wur away to themselves.

This old mesh makes a racket when its writing stuff to the drive but I thought that was par for the course.

Noise??

You need to check out the play area, just opposite from me here, when i've finished a night shift.

THATS noisy.

 

All my macs are near silent the room has to be totally quiet to hear them at all.

A computer that is designed well does not need to sound like a plane taking off.

 

So long as the damn thing keeps running....thats all i'm worried about!

 

That's more to do with the user, hehe