Temp (idle): 30-32
Temp (load): 45

CPU (p4 3.0c @ 3.6ghz)
Vcore (1.525)
Mobo (msi neo-2)
RAM (1gb PC3200 generic)
Latency (dunno)
Video card (r9600xt)

CPU waterblock: maze 3
GPU waterblock: none, passive zalman
Pump: eheim 1048
Radiator: ford escort 1.6 radiator. NO FANS.

Oh what stress tests do you want to see?
I have run 3d mark03 and checked temps, then run far cry for a couple hours checking temps every now and then. Very stable, although electrical noise must be resolved as using the mouse is difficult.

Doh! can i not just describe it to you, im stuck in work practically all weekend!

Think of a big heatsink stuck to psu FETs of a modified enermax 460W and then think of the noise with no fan on the system at all. mmmmm its great!

So silent! and 3.6ghz worth of computing power...

Hi; Some of you may have read my old tread about my plans for 550w silent psu, and by silent i mean truly silent ie not with a fan. i have made it. It is not 550w as qtec psu's are rubbish and are not 550W, in fact they are not even 250W! I have made a 460W psu it has no fans and is currently poweri...

i did get thinking about the circuit, i even got as far as choosing components when i rembered that one end of the resistor would have to be connected to a ground part of the sense circuit, so you circuit supply would have to be floating ground, else it would short the mains out. Whilst it would wor...

So hang on is your setup a fish tank being cooled by the copper pipes in it? Does water flow up the pipes, or just into the tank, i guess the heat could conduct up the copper pipes and act like a large zalman thing? (Reservoir/radiator = reserator! i think i have also just solved the reason for the ...

Im not sure you can commercially make this system for under £250, it all sounds very fancy and too many parts of the system and then you throw in the neccesity that it must be installed by your mum (no offense maybe your mum is more computer literate than mine!) i know my mum couldnt open a pc case ...

joecuba; Caps are placed near to the hot components as they are part of the power supply and aid smoothing of the supply line. they are placed nearer to the devices so that they act quickly when the supply is dipped by devices switching. Hence why the cpu is covered in caps as the cpu needs lots of ...

i think i will get a tagan psu, expensive but good quality from what i have seen so far. The heatsink i have on the way is huge! its gonna be a beast of a system with that in it. I allready have a steel full tower case with a huge car rad, 4 hard drives and lots of insulating material. Its getting h...

You were so right.

The qtec was rubbish, it is no way 550w, i put a lot of stuff onto it and it overheated and switched off. So i gave that thing back.

I have one heatsink and another huge one is on its way, i wil look into a better psu for this mod.

no im not worried about running out of power, well not with my current supply as its the zalman 400W which is stable as a rock, but having looked into the 550qtec i have found it is apparantly actually about 350W with the 3.3v and 5v lines less power than the zalman!

I am going to buy the 550W qtec noisy power supply of ebuyer. here: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=34825 i am also going to source some large heatsinks (ebay) like the ones found in RSwww.com we are taking 20cmx40cmx4cm They will go...

magnetism is amazing stuff. it does take energy to create a magnet, but i dont believe energy can be removed from a magnet. For example: get two fridge magnets, Lift one and feel the weight, ok? Now stick one of the magnets to the other and hold one above the other. The other one on the bottom is us...

it is feasible to attach a generator to the motor and produce more electric power than was put into the device

Yeah right.

Total Rubbish.

I have a projector as my second monitor and TV in my room as it saves space in my small room and its cool to have the large 5 foot screen for movies and gameplaying etc. Why come here to discuss it? Its NOISY! It is very noisy, the other day when i took it apart to clean the filters i found that 4 d...

PretzelB; I work in engineering so i was able to use the tools at my work after work to put in the pipes in the radiator. and the rest is just standard fittings. Lenny; Yep its not perfect but when it sits in the case its quite stable and i can move the comp around and they dont move (cos there isnt...

hey what do you mean oh my!!?? i know its a bit of a mess but its the space under my desk, i dont exactly go there much!

Im using the eheim 1048, its very quiet, i was almost able to hear it the other night but it turned out to be the fridge next door!

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yes i know, i have taken them but i have to resize them (4mb each in jpeg form!) and upload them, but its such a hassle. i will do it hto so dont worry.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=10684 See the above for my initial plan. Its worked! the 3.0ghz p4 will work upto 3.8ghz and is happily on 24/7 now with absolutely no noise. the pump is dead silent, it does hum but only with your ear right up to the pump! The noise now is the hardd...

seal; i think the moral of the story is dont buy a cheap mobo! i used to fall for the cheap prices long ago,and i would get serious stability problems. since i started paying more for the mobos they have given me no trouble at all and i have had a happy 5 years computing! I have never found caps to ...

seal; (being a communications engineer) i have seen this sort of thing on caps, usually when they get either very hot or the polarity is reversed, or some times a higher voltage can cause it. I would think that the voltage regulating FETs that silvarg has mentioned probably get very hot (considering...

6 entries found for passive: 3: Existing, conducted, or experienced without active or concerted effort: 5: Electronics. Exhibiting no gain or contributing no energy: a passive circuit element. (i skipped out the other entries) Ok so a passive system would be a system with no moving parts of any kind...

Qwertyiopisme: you said: Now i have a 150x200x50mm radiator from something that is ewnough to run pasive for 2 hours on a stock 2500+, after that i turn on my enermax 120mm fan at 5v etc... if you can run that then i should have no problems with the size rad i have. yes i understood what you meant a...

silvarg; I needed 2 heatpipes, of about 50cm and the sink was on the outside of the case, the prices were from two uk companies thermacore and some other one. For the watercooling i will leave the case open for a while to cool passively the hardrives, graphics and north bridge, if all goes well i wi...

Has passive water cooling been done? I have looked about for a while and not seen any. Anyways i have been toying with the idea of passive for a while and noticed two obvious solutions; 1; use heatpipes and enormous heatsink (zalman case etc) 2; use enormous radiator and water cooling I found the co...