I seem to remember someone once showing me a pic of a water setup using only blocks/pump and a large water reservoir.
I know you can use a big passively cooled radiator, but this requires a very powerful pump(or so ive been told) and you need to buy the radiator. I was thinking that if you just used a (very) large (closed) plastic tank of water that you might still achieve some decent cooling without stressing the pump(the tank could also be pretty flat so it wouldnt have to pump the water to large heights).
Anyone have an idea about how much water this requires, to manage 2-3 waterblocks(CPU(AMD)+GPU and possibly NB)?
Would a Hydor Pro(L20) pump be sufficient for this(they cost about 1/3 of the eheims 1046/1048 here).
My primary concern here is keeping everything silent, not OC'ing(though i would like to run my Barton 2500+@ 11x200Mhz, which worked fine even with my old budget water cooling kit( which was sold as a closed circuit(ie I didnt put it together myself) and leaked! )).
Sorry if these are stupid questions, but im a bit of newbie to watercooling.
I know you can use a big passively cooled radiator, but this requires a very powerful pump(or so ive been told) and you need to buy the radiator. I was thinking that if you just used a (very) large (closed) plastic tank of water that you might still achieve some decent cooling without stressing the pump(the tank could also be pretty flat so it wouldnt have to pump the water to large heights).
Anyone have an idea about how much water this requires, to manage 2-3 waterblocks(CPU(AMD)+GPU and possibly NB)?
Would a Hydor Pro(L20) pump be sufficient for this(they cost about 1/3 of the eheims 1046/1048 here).
My primary concern here is keeping everything silent, not OC'ing(though i would like to run my Barton 2500+@ 11x200Mhz, which worked fine even with my old budget water cooling kit( which was sold as a closed circuit(ie I didnt put it together myself) and leaked! )).
Sorry if these are stupid questions, but im a bit of newbie to watercooling.