not withing a closed system, using an open system you could use evaporation to pull the water through the system, but within a closed system the water simply wouldn't flow, as the water would not know which way around the system to flow. Best bet is to get a quite pump, but with such a low TDP cpu, ...

From my experience, it is a definite yes. as time goes by things will wear down, and they will get noisy. Moving the hdd's around alot like in a laptop while its on dosent help either. my seagate 320Gb hdd is now by far the loudest part in my rig now, annoying but it's there to serve as my programs ...

u can always use a zalam fan mate :D if it's a molex plug then u can get a converter so it can fit onto a zalman fan mate ^^ also you can mount 120 rads in the top exhaust fans, should be enough for the GTX260 if you put the rad in between the cpu and gpu water blocks :) id def consider putting the ...

Hi I'm using an Acer d250, if you really want totally silence i would AVOID this one there is no control over the fan, though it is temperature controlled and starts off completely passive until a critical temp is hit then fan turns on takes around 30mins - 1 hour. There are some passive netbookts o...

nice rig :) im running a wc p182 as well :) you though about having the rad outside the case ? Also dont think u need to have the top fan in the case on at all since ur cpu dosent need much air flow :) just block it off so you only have 2 fans in the upper chamber. if your flow rate is too high you ...

I am currently writing mine too, though my topic is computer graphics :P A good idea would be to brake down the topics, as silent work stations is a large area. So have a chapter on thermal conductivity, comparing between the metals / liquids(water cooling). Have a chapter on aerodynamics / turbulen...

What cpu are you running? looks like integrated graphics as well?

Try replacing your stock cooler, for something a bit beefier for better temps and noise

Also cable management is very important if you care about airflow / turbulence inside your case

you can always mod it :D so in effect take out the pump from the reserator and use a 3rd party pump, housed within the case that ran on the 12V psu. I was planning to do this but instead got a zalman xt instead. Another option is to go for the invotek passive radiators http://www.highspeedpc.com/Mer...

Hi im running 5 fans also inside a P182 :) and one 14cm fan outside case in zalman xt :roll: my fans run at <600 rpm so pritty quite, about 3 meters for pure silience ^^, im using a nuture pressure build with 3 intakes and 2 outtakes + 1 psu, seems to work well as fans never have to ramp up even und...

Road Traffic though my pc is quite it's probly not as quite as it could be as im using an external wc solution and it's about 30 cm from my head

I did run the cpu at 3Ghz simply pushing up the FSB but resulted in temps that I think are too high specially when running at 100% load at periods over 10 hours hit around 70C as i can remember on cpu and 65 ish on gpu. 2.4Ghz is enough for me

Hi finally got around taking some pictures of my rig, here's the spec list Case: P182 Fans: 4 Noctua <600Rpm, 1 Scythe slip/stream 5V CPU: Q6600 G0 2.4Ghz GPU: XFX 8800GTS 320MB Water cooler: Zalman reserator XT "Volt modded" Ram: GSkill 6GB DDR2 OS hdd: 80Gb Intel xm25m Files hdd: 1Tb WD green Prog...

very true, but military spec processors and motherboards cost an arm and leg much cheaper to get consumer grade and just run them cooler even going for enterprise grade such as xeons are too expensive

guess stuff that stays cool lasts longer specially if you end up rendering on them like me running at 100% cpu for a week straight at times isnt going to do wonders for the life span of the component

Hi there should have probly posted earlier :P been using complete legit complete of windows for about a month now. I managed to get my copy from MSDN AA, which is where the uni has a deal with Microsoft for software :) windows 7 seems to work perfectly, I haven't had any major issues as a power user...

Well tbh the more the merrier, just increase your surface dissertation for heat thus means you can have a lower speed case fan :) cos im assuming, your water cooling cpu/gpu so that the case fans can be run really slow for some true silence ;) You might have some problems with high temps though depe...

:D but make sure you dont forget your ram sinks :P otherwise your going to end up burning your card out. http://www.dangerden.com/store/ramsinks-for-video-cards.html you might also need ones for other parts of the card, I know I needed more than just ram sinks when I was using a HR-03 on my 8800GTS....

SSD's will always win, running a xm25 and it flies with windows 7 on it previously was running a 74Gb raptor.

Well you CAN mix the wb materials, isnt really advised but if you use a corrosion inhibitor, you can prevent the corrosion. I got a zalman XT and I know that zalman have mixed metals / plastics within the zalman xt unit it self. Best bet is to stick with some aluminum blocks, not too sure which ones...

If you planned to water cool all the main parts ie cpu / gpu / hdds then a single 120 rad is not gona cut it, you need a single 120 rad just for the i7 if you plan to run it with any sort of quite fan. Another factor is the quality of the rad, some have higher flow rates some have higher fin density...

after much messing around I found out it's actually a 3pin fan :D silly me :oops: I stuck in Low-noise-adapter left over from my noctua fans, think it reduces the fan to run at 9v. but now it spins at 500rpm or so the XT says but the good news it's whisper quite now :) hope this helps, also to open ...

multiply drive pc's are the way forward. I have recently upgraded to an intel 25-xm that i got for cheap :P and have a 320Gb seagate for programs and a 1Tb Wd green for bulk data storage. Setting up like so means that windows 7 has a whole hdd to it's self, my boot times are crazy sub 40 seconds and...

That does depend where u buy them

managed to get my self 4 Noctuas in Hong kong for very cheap about 4 quid a pop, and about the colours how can u even see ur fans?? if u can see them im sure there is a way to hide them if u dont like the colour.

Hi it is possible to use a 4 pin PWM fan such as the arctic cooling ones that they supply with the arctic freezer pro 7. From this article http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/8800GT_TR_HR-03_with_Fan.html they say that the order of which the wires are: NVIDIA <---------------> Arctic Cooling mini-PW...

I always thought that the reserator 1/2's heat disserpation would be equal to the ambient temp, so if you use a table fan point it towards the reserator or just wait for winter for the lower ambient temps

I personally prefer variable, just set my fans to low when on Idle but generally my gpu will get too hot when I start coding using CUDA, so need to increase the fan speed then ^^ but does so automatically, using speedFan

I got a similar set up with a 8800GTS with a HR-03, with a 120mm noctua fan on it. But basically I have speed fan set up so that the ideal temp for my GPU is 65C and let it increase or decrease all my case fans based on the temp of my GPU, so currently idling at 500Rpm ^^. Not an ideal set up but I ...

Hi I was thinking the same thing.... Just got mine set up recently, the temps im getting are very good mid 30's casual use and tops out at 45C with ambient being 24C with reserator set to low. I was thinking if it would be possible to replace the fan, I know it's a 4 pin PWM fan, so just a matter of...