Silent Cooling Project

[itsacarr]

Hey I am looking for input on a system I am looking to building soon. I run an Intel OR840 board with 2 1ghz p3 slot procs with 2 gigs of rdram and a have a gf2 gts II prophet. Those are the rough specs. Now I want to make my machine completely silent first off and second off I want h20 so that it is more streamlined, I don't plan on oc'ing, perhaps the gpu and mem on the card but I cant really afford to screw things up. Anyone want to help with ideas for setup etc.? Such as should I run one setup with 2 pumps or 2 diff setups??? Oh and I am using an atc-201 for the case.....Thanks ahead of time for anyone willing to read this whole msg.
Adam
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[Amedeo602]

Welcome to the forums!

What's your budget? Watercooling is expensive so expect to pay $100-$200 for a decent system (I think the one at www.dangerden.com runs around $180)

another alternative would be the case from www.koolance.com Not extremely overclockable, but quiet. Expensive though :(

[itsacarr]

I am going to say price is no object, not becasue I have lots of it lol I don't it's all in my system as you can see :D but I am willing to take as much time as needed to buy things. There is also no way in hell im giving up my case, way too much time into the mods in it such as the very very very custom anodizing\powder coating etc. job being worked on as we speak :) Thanks for the welcoming, I have had trouble finding responsive forums aside from [H] Forums, but I mainly go there for my case mods....

[Amedeo602]

You could go about this in any number of ways...

1) one pump (inline or submersible), 2 blocks running thru the same setup, 1 radiator (not very efficient, but the cheapest)

2) 2 separate setups, 1 inline/submersible pump and 1 radiator apiece (probably the most efficient, but a little louder and more expensive)

3) 1 reservoir, 1 pump and set of tubing per cpu and 1 radiator per tube

those are just a few off the top of my head...

[itsacarr]

Is inline or submergable better? Or does it really matter. For my resovoir I was thinking of custom building one out of lucite or plexi and building custom rails for it so it fit in my 3.5 inch bay and you could see it from the front :) Put a nice bezel on it. Anyway, I was thinking of 1 or 2 Ehiem pumps. What if I used a copper core rad(is the Blackice copper core?) with maybe two silent 90 or 120 fans on it all mounted in the front, and two copper blocks and maybe one more rad on the back with the same fan setup but blowing out the back of the case.....im not sure if I could efficiently cool the gpu and memory off of one radiator already working with two procs.....
I was just trying to think of a sequence for all the parts to go in but im stumped right now....

[Amedeo602]

Originally posted by itsacarr
Is inline or submergable better? Or does it really matter. For my resovoir I was thinking of custom building one out of lucite or plexi and building custom rails for it so it fit in my 3.5 inch bay and you could see it from the front :) Put a nice bezel on it. Anyway, I was thinking of 1 or 2 Ehiem pumps. What if I used a copper core rad(is the Blackice copper core?) with maybe two silent 90 or 120 fans on it all mounted in the front, and two copper blocks and maybe one more rad on the back with the same fan setup but blowing out the back of the case.....im not sure if I could efficiently cool the gpu and memory off of one radiator already working with two procs.....
I was just trying to think of a sequence for all the parts to go in but im stumped right now....

Inline-Lower temps, a little quieter.
Submersible-You get the benefit of having a reservoir so you don't have to bleed the system.
It's really a matter of preference on the pumps.

With respect to radiators/blocks: be sure what you get isn't going to cause corrosion!

If you're trying to run GPU and 2 CPUs through one system, you're going to have to get the best radiator you can afford or you're not going to be cool enough.

You said "gpu and memory" -- do u mean the memory on the video card or the system memory? If it's video card memory you'd probably be better off with ramsinks. If it's system memory I wouldn't even bother to watercool it. It'd be more hassle then it'd be worth.

[MeJa]

I just got my self a watercool kit from Becooling, and you cant go wrong with this kif for only $150 :) Check it out!
http://becooling.safeshopper.com/3/55.htm?466