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Liquid Cooling rig

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YoshiSato

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OK first off, here are the specs of my system

CPU:Athlon 64 3500+
MOBO:Asus- A8N Dexlue
Video Card:EVGA Geforce 6800GT 256MB
RAM: 2GB pc3200(2x512 in Kingston 2x512 in Corsiar both sets have heatspreaders)
Hard drive:Standard MAXTOR 200GB ATA.
Of course I have 2 Optical drives 1 DvD and 1 DVD+-RW

Currenlty I have 4 case fans, 1 Slot fan under the GPU, and a Venus 12 CPU cooler, The case fans and CPU fan are controled via a switch. When turned to max this rig is very very loud(that's why I'm looking at liquid cooling)

Any suggestions on a kit? I do not want to switch out my case(pain in the ass to rebuild the machine) so I'm looking at an external system.
 
Have you tried using Panaflo "L" series case fan? The "L" stands for low speed thus lower db. Another option is to use bigger fans like 92mm vice 80 mm. Remember, hot air goes up thuse fans blowing into the case must be oriented on the loower half of the case while the exhaust fans must be on the upper half. And you must distance the supply and exhaust fans as far as possible frm each other to ensure you do not short circuit the air flow.
 
Originally posted by: Jiggz
Have you tried using Panaflo "L" series case fan? The "L" stands for low speed thus lower db. Another option is to use bigger fans like 92mm vice 80 mm. Remember, hot air goes up thuse fans blowing into the case must be oriented on the loower half of the case while the exhaust fans must be on the upper half. And you must distance the supply and exhaust fans as far as possible frm each other to ensure you do not short circuit the air flow.
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Not what I asked.
I have intake fans in the front. 1 exhast on the side panel 1 on the back and 1 PCI blower
 
I was thinking that maybe by trying silent fans you reduce the db. But if you really want to go water cooling here's one Koolance

Even with water cooling there will still be running fans albeit outside the case. There are some modular designs which looks great and probably works great too.
 
see sig 🙂

It's pretty easy to install, even though the manuals are very short (and somewhat lacking)

It's my first watercooling kit.
 
Thermaltake makes a nice little cooling system that you don't even need to mod your case for. Uses little magnets to stick the pump and the radiator to the chassis. Only cops with a cpu waterblock, you'd have to buy a GPU block to add in. I used to use the Aquarius version which was the original version until my pump burned out. Rather than track down a new pump, I just went down to Circuit City and bought a new hsf so I could get back to playing my game. Ended up selling the kit minus the busted pump.
 
Originally posted by: YoshiSato
If I went liquid cooling the CPU and the GPU would both be liquid cooled. Everything else would be air cooled.
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you can get cooling for the chipset and harddrives too.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Thermaltake makes a nice little cooling system that you don't even need to mod your case for. Uses little magnets to stick the pump and the radiator to the chassis. Only cops with a cpu waterblock, you'd have to buy a GPU block to add in. I used to use the Aquarius version which was the original version until my pump burned out. Rather than track down a new pump, I just went down to Circuit City and bought a new hsf so I could get back to playing my game. Ended up selling the kit minus the busted pump.
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DO NOT USE THERMALTAKES KIT! it has serious problems with it in the long run. The initial performance is great but the long run, the kit LEAKS! ive had 2 friends of mine use this kit and they both didnt last more then 3 weeks tops. spend a little more and invest in a good dyo kit. Also if ur going to cool the NB and CPU make sure ur not doing SLI. Its goign to be a pain in the ARUS to get a tube from the CPU to NB with 2 6800's blocking half the NB cpu :[ lastly, ur going to need to pull your board out anyhow to mount the cpu retention bracket so i if u want to upgrade to a "Bigger" case, id recomend it. You'll love the extra room when u have to place the rad/res/5-6 feet in tubing. 😀 also Dont cheat out on the water blocks pump rad. which is basically the entire kit. lastly invest in cool sleves. There the spiral things that wrap around the tube so it doesnt kink. also anyone that has liquid cooling will tell u, messure twicex3 and cut once. And once u get your general rig possition, DO NOT CHANGE IT in the middle somewhere because you think this is more efficient. If u do, you have to remessure it again and then recut again.

final note, if ur looking for liquid cooling a non oc'd rig, i heard the zalmen's works pretty well. its fanless, only problem is i like my kit in my computer.
 
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