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Thyrteen · 09-22-2007, 02:16 AM

I have 2 complete water cooled rigs. one is a simple zalman reserator on a athlon xp 2800+ slightly overclocked, and a geforce fx 5900 ultra (that has a gpu block), and a chipset block. The thing is so quiet, I would walk into the room and turn it off, thinking it was off already. Now it's a linux server, and stays on all the time.

My desktop is a Core2duo e6600, with 7900gtx's that I do sli sometimes with games. I have sli water blocks, and the proc water block, with only 3 fans in the whole case. next to go is the chipset. It's a lot more expensive to do a nice watercooling setup, to do the setup "right" on a system like this, with chipset included, you'd probably be about $750 usd or so. You could probably get an HD cooler or memory block and stuff there too and be around the same price. Power supplies are quiet enough if you get a good one (I have a zalman "silent" (with fan) psu in the one server, and it's really quiet. no need to do anything there), and you can knock a full system down to 2-3 fans otherwise for great cooling, or you can do 1-2 for pretty good.

If anyone wants advice picking parts or anything, I'm here to help, I guess. Just offering the hand since some of you seem interested!

Edit:
oh, and how could I be so rude as to not post pics?

New Comp:
Inside (Radiator not showing with single fan though)
The passive radiators. - Those 2 could probably passively cool them under normal load, and only use the fan for gaming, but I'd rather have not gotten them and just bought a 3-120mm top mount and ran them slow and had a regular reservoir.

Old comp (server):
Server inside
- can't see gfx block.
Outside / Radiator - yep, that's about as simple as it gets, but man, it's soooo quiet.
If you guys want more pictures of whatever / close shots, lemme know. Also seeking advice for my setup, but I do have some plans in place already. Let's see what we come up with.

09-22-2007, 02:16 AM	#7 (permalink)
Thyrteen Civilian Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2	Water cooling help I have 2 complete water cooled rigs. one is a simple zalman reserator on a athlon xp 2800+ slightly overclocked, and a geforce fx 5900 ultra (that has a gpu block), and a chipset block. The thing is so quiet, I would walk into the room and turn it off, thinking it was off already. Now it's a linux server, and stays on all the time. My desktop is a Core2duo e6600, with 7900gtx's that I do sli sometimes with games. I have sli water blocks, and the proc water block, with only 3 fans in the whole case. next to go is the chipset. It's a lot more expensive to do a nice watercooling setup, to do the setup "right" on a system like this, with chipset included, you'd probably be about $750 usd or so. You could probably get an HD cooler or memory block and stuff there too and be around the same price. Power supplies are quiet enough if you get a good one (I have a zalman "silent" (with fan) psu in the one server, and it's really quiet. no need to do anything there), and you can knock a full system down to 2-3 fans otherwise for great cooling, or you can do 1-2 for pretty good. If anyone wants advice picking parts or anything, I'm here to help, I guess. Just offering the hand since some of you seem interested! Edit: oh, and how could I be so rude as to not post pics? New Comp: Inside (Radiator not showing with single fan though) The passive radiators. - Those 2 could probably passively cool them under normal load, and only use the fan for gaming, but I'd rather have not gotten them and just bought a 3-120mm top mount and ran them slow and had a regular reservoir. Old comp (server): Server inside - can't see gfx block. Outside / Radiator - yep, that's about as simple as it gets, but man, it's soooo quiet. If you guys want more pictures of whatever / close shots, lemme know. Also seeking advice for my setup, but I do have some plans in place already. Let's see what we come up with. Last edited by Thyrteen : 09-22-2007 at 02:30 AM.