My home made silent(no fans) watercooled PC, almost finished
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My home made silent(no fans) watercooled PC, almost finished
my site is not up to date.. i haven't worked on the project for a while.
I still need to build a new radiator and build a case.
I thought id share it with you.
http://v4.livegate.net/lopedogg/welcome.html
just click "da pictures"
its really irritating how people say silent, yet the project still includes fans and makes a noise. silent means you cant hear it. maybe "those" people are half deaf *g*
I still need to build a new radiator and build a case.
I thought id share it with you.
http://v4.livegate.net/lopedogg/welcome.html
just click "da pictures"
its really irritating how people say silent, yet the project still includes fans and makes a noise. silent means you cant hear it. maybe "those" people are half deaf *g*
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Re: My home made silent(no fans) watercooled PC, almost fini
Certain fans when undervolted are almost inaudible. Silence is a subjective issue, I think my Nexus @ 12V is silent enough while others may still want to undervolt it. BTW good job on the mods, must have spent a ton of time. What pump are you using?LopeDogg wrote: its really irritating how people say silent, yet the project still includes fans and makes a noise. silent means you cant hear it. maybe "those" people are half deaf *g*
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rofl I have no idea what he is referring to but I thought it was hilarious. Maybe they are friends or something.Mr_Smartepants wrote:Whoa Dude!
ONEshot; watch your language and tone! An attitude like that will get you banned.
Sounds like you need a few lessons in manners as well as social tolerance.
Oh and BTW that pic of who ever's gf on the front is a little uncalled for... I tend to roam forums at work and that stupid thing came up. Yeah, not cool. Atleast put a warning when you have something completely off topic like that forced up when you link to something. Quite rude if you ask me.
Well if you read his project closely, you'll see:
"Just felt the heatsink now, its in the high 40s (50 = pain, i go by that *g*) (yes CENTIGRADE you american fucks)"
My "social intolerance" was meant to emphasize his social intolerance.
You'll notice there are no "*g*"s after that statement, and for some reason, that bugged me a lot.
So by calling us fucks and then making a blatant spelling errors...
"Just felt the heatsink now, its in the high 40s (50 = pain, i go by that *g*) (yes CENTIGRADE you american fucks)"
My "social intolerance" was meant to emphasize his social intolerance.
You'll notice there are no "*g*"s after that statement, and for some reason, that bugged me a lot.
So by calling us fucks and then making a blatant spelling errors...
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Re: My home made silent(no fans) watercooled PC, almost fini
well, you may find it irritating but that doesn't mean it's inaccurate. you can have "no fans" and still be noisy (loud wc pump or loud drives) and you can have fans and be 'silent'. really the only truly 'silent' setup is all passive with a solid-state drive (so NO moving parts). but honestly, most of us would call anything that is <20db @ 1m to be close enough to 'silent'. if the only way you can hear it is to wait for a quiet night and stick your head right next to the box, well thats more than good enough for me. and thats how both my systems are... and they are both air cooled and have 5 and 3 fans.LopeDogg wrote: its really irritating how people say silent, yet the project still includes fans and makes a noise. silent means you cant hear it. maybe "those" people are half deaf *g*
i find it irritating when someone claims their system is silent when they have a WD hard drive in it.
DarkHorse, i believe the *g* is another notation of <g> which stands for 'grin', which you use to indicate that you thought what you just wrote was funny or witty (you are 'grinning' as you say/type it).
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I agree with you, that statement bugged me too.ONEshot wrote:Well if you read his project closely, you'll see:
"Just felt the heatsink now, its in the high 40s (50 = pain, i go by that *g*) (yes CENTIGRADE you american f**ks)"
My "social intolerance" was meant to emphasize his social intolerance.
You'll notice there are no "*g*"s after that statement, and for some reason, that bugged me a lot.
So by calling us f**ks and then making a blatant spelling errors...
However...
I think that there is a fundamental difference between posting distorted opinions on your own personal webpage and posting on public forums. The difference boils down to choice. An analogy would be the difference between swearing in your own house or swearing on a street corner where people congregate.
I for one don't personally have a problem with swearing. I sometimes shout at my troops like a drunken sailor. As an active-duty American military servicemember, I defend our rights for free-speech daily, even if I disagree with the opinions of the speaker.
I believe that MikeC established some net-tiquete posting rules somewhere in these forums. That was my original point I think.
These 16-hr days are making me dizzy. Gotta go, someone's shooting at us.
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We actually did have one here for a while. It died from dust overload (not a bullet!) and we never did get it back from the shop. We've got four Dell Optiplex GX towers in our office tent (all very quiet considering the heat) but one just died (dust again) and the other three require cleaning once a week just to keep running.mpteach wrote:Mr_Smartepants do you have one of those panasonic toughbooks? I heard they can stop bullets. Are they quiet?
The dust here resembles baking flour but is tan. Very fine flour! It gets everywhere. Our dead Dell had it's motherboard fried from the buildup. Almost none of our optical drives work anymore.
Ah well, only one month to go and then someone else can worry about them.
just to add a litle note;
i used to work with a little Panasonic toughbook;
very nice laptop, very very silent,
i constantly used it to playback music while i fell asleep,
the only thing i heard was some sporadic BRR BRR when the harddisc was thinking, but that was because the laptop was laying on my wooden desc,
had a simple solution for it: i turned the toughbook on its side so the harddisc part wouldn't touch the desc anymore,
no more noize
too bad i smashed the (touch)screen two years ago, so it became useless,
i loved that laptop, for its size, silence and was so easy to use
i used to work with a little Panasonic toughbook;
very nice laptop, very very silent,
i constantly used it to playback music while i fell asleep,
the only thing i heard was some sporadic BRR BRR when the harddisc was thinking, but that was because the laptop was laying on my wooden desc,
had a simple solution for it: i turned the toughbook on its side so the harddisc part wouldn't touch the desc anymore,
no more noize
too bad i smashed the (touch)screen two years ago, so it became useless,
i loved that laptop, for its size, silence and was so easy to use
hmm
you guys are right about the silence issue.
from my point of view, computer noise is un natural and i dont want to be subjected to it unnecessarily.
i often find myself in the situation where i turn my pc off because i dont want the noise, but i'd still like to leave it on for whatever reason.
and its not an easy choice.
id like to be able to sleep with my pc on, on a quiet night, and not hear it.
the goal is to be unable to tell when its on or off...
i wont be able to work on it for a while, im probably going to be doing some travelling soon, and i dont have any workspace to work on it either..
i built everything so far with relatively primitive tools, was quite challenging at times.
ONEshot, you're obviously a bit sensitive due to all the american hating going on. I didnt mean it in a bad way, it was a joke. chill.
flyingsherpa: yeah, i got a seagate barracuda 160GB now, its freakishly quiet... i just need to find a suitable foam for building the soundproofing box.
im using a cheap 5W pump.. its a really nice pump. 220Vac
it does 1.3m head pressure, doesnt pump water like a fire hose, but it does the job...
when i was testing with the bucket... i tried running a 25W pump aswell... the 25W pump game me temps that were about 3-4 degrees lower.
the 25W pump was so damn noisy, there was no question as to which pump to choose.
When i decouple the pump's vibrations, its barely audible.
with some sound dampening foam around the res, it should be perfect.
im dying to finish the project but the pressures of life are holding me back atm :/
from my point of view, computer noise is un natural and i dont want to be subjected to it unnecessarily.
i often find myself in the situation where i turn my pc off because i dont want the noise, but i'd still like to leave it on for whatever reason.
and its not an easy choice.
id like to be able to sleep with my pc on, on a quiet night, and not hear it.
the goal is to be unable to tell when its on or off...
i wont be able to work on it for a while, im probably going to be doing some travelling soon, and i dont have any workspace to work on it either..
i built everything so far with relatively primitive tools, was quite challenging at times.
ONEshot, you're obviously a bit sensitive due to all the american hating going on. I didnt mean it in a bad way, it was a joke. chill.
flyingsherpa: yeah, i got a seagate barracuda 160GB now, its freakishly quiet... i just need to find a suitable foam for building the soundproofing box.
im using a cheap 5W pump.. its a really nice pump. 220Vac
it does 1.3m head pressure, doesnt pump water like a fire hose, but it does the job...
when i was testing with the bucket... i tried running a 25W pump aswell... the 25W pump game me temps that were about 3-4 degrees lower.
the 25W pump was so damn noisy, there was no question as to which pump to choose.
When i decouple the pump's vibrations, its barely audible.
with some sound dampening foam around the res, it should be perfect.
im dying to finish the project but the pressures of life are holding me back atm :/
Sorry Mr_SmartepantsMr_Smartepants wrote:I agree with you, that statement bugged me too.ONEshot wrote:Well if you read his project closely, you'll see:
"Just felt the heatsink now, its in the high 40s (50 = pain, i go by that *g*) (yes CENTIGRADE you american f**ks)"
My "social intolerance" was meant to emphasize his social intolerance.
You'll notice there are no "*g*"s after that statement, and for some reason, that bugged me a lot.
So by calling us f**ks and then making a blatant spelling errors...
However...
I think that there is a fundamental difference between posting distorted opinions on your own personal webpage and posting on public forums. The difference boils down to choice. An analogy would be the difference between swearing in your own house or swearing on a street corner where people congregate.
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I have to disagree.
Its not private anymore when you open the door to your house and invite everyone in. Furthermore, if you yell loud enough (even in your private abode), the cops are going to pay you a visit. That is not a violation of your first amendment rights.... its called disturbing the peace.
I think you guys are being just a bit too politically correct.
Glad to see that you did what I would do.... kill off the thread.
Don't give advice to a schmuck and a boor.
LopeDogg.
Consider yourself lucky... you could have been deluged with misinformation. Chill yourself.