I wonder why nobody's made a self-contained water-cooled PSU that simply has 3/8" quick connect fittings for inlet and outlet and no moving parts. Such a thing would certainly sell like hotcakes to the "enthusiast" crowd. You could replace the PSU heatsinks with waterblocks, but you still have a lo...

I've been thinking about changing my case for a while (and possibly ditching watercooling). Right now I have a SLK3000B with an MG Metro (car) radiator bolted to the side. There are three low speed Yate Loons at about 7v on the radiator and another two inside the case. The (extremely loud) hard driv...

Thanks, I'm also waiting for the review :) . Right now I use a 65W 19V power brick (the one I have on eBay) and it works fine with my undervolt and underclocked quad core my system at load only takes 48W and about 30W at idle so is no problem for the 65W brick. I only have one for now but I will ha...

I was looking for information on the Pico, but this looks awesome. I can't wait to see the review!

I poked around on Ebay - you're saying that any adapter in the 18v-24v range will work fine? Even an old laptop brick? Assuming it provides enough wattage, of course.

So far I have four of the ASUS boards running. Assuming the temp measurements are similarly calibrated when viewed in Speedfan, the ASUS boards run significantly cooler than the Intel boards.

Out of curiosity, do these offer any options for changing clocks and/or voltage?

For a fanless netbook, sure. But for a proper desktop workstation - really? Certainly. You really can't be an SSD for great workstation performance. If you're not sure about SSDs for any reason, you owe yourself this read. It's an excellent article: http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631

If you want to do a little bit of work, it's fairly easy to modify most cases to place the radiator outside. People mount 2x120mm, 2x140mm, 3x120mm, and other radiators on top of the case or bolted to the side. That lets you use a simple midtower like the Antec 300. Saves you some money, too.

The current recommended quiet fans are the Scythe Slipstream and the Yate Loon D12SL-12. The Scythes run about $8 at Jab-Tech, and the Yate Loons $3.60. The Scythes might be just a little better because they have less of a dead spot. Are you using ducts on either of your rads? That would help a bit ...

What if you were to cut out two of the ribs? Does it lower the frequency of the noise? That might be an easy way to reduce the intrusiveness of the hum without remounting the entire thing.

If the Storm is 0.14 C/W and the 6002 is 0.16 C/W then at 100 Watts the difference would be 2C. To get 3-6C difference would require between 150W and 300W which would be one seriously over-clocked and over-volted cpu! I'm not sure why I didn't catch that, but I knew the differnce certainly wasn't g...

When you say decouple, do you mean running them in series to halve voltage, or do you mean you attached a pot?

I'm starting to get an information overload here...

Yeah, I already ordered a bunch of them from Case-Mod.com as case fans...I'll be sure to test a couple on my heatercores. As to fans blowing through a heatercore...I could barely feel air blowing through a heatercore with one of my Sanyo Denkis at 10v or so...and these max out at 109CFM, I believe. ...

I'll keep the Storm in mind then, thanks.

Has anyone found any information on the amount of pressure the Yate Loons produce?

Could you link me to the charts? Are you talking about the graphs over at procooling? I'd really rather not rip up my heatercores...ripping out my fins would mean worrying about leaks and losing half the surface area. I'd like to leave my radiators as they are, if possible. What I'm really asking is...

The noise level of the MCP655 doesn't bother me at all, and the higher flowrate helps when pushing through three different blocks. I think you might have the data with the Storm backwards - it performs better with higher flowrates, not with lower. At best, it would amount to a couple C's of differen...

First off, I'm pretty new to quiet computing. I've started getting into it though, and things are looking good. My main rig is built around in an SLK3000B, and I've cut out the front fan grill, etc. etc. Going to use some Yate Loon 120x25mm's for the cooling, and modifying my existing watercooling s...