- Joined
- Jan 28, 2006
- Location
- Powell, Ohio, USA
I've recently built a new system for my home office / gaming needs:
Antec Performance I P180 Case
Intel D 940 3.2Ghz Dual Core
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1900XT
ASUS P5WD2-E Premium Mainboard
Antec Phantom 500 PSU
PowerColor T55E-P03 Theater 550 PRO Tuner
CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin Unbuffered DDR2 800
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
NEC ND-3520A 16X Double Layer DVD±RW
(2) Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA 3Gb/s Hard Drives
Currently I'm running all stock air cooling. This build was supposed to be a quiet air cooled machine that was silent for my office -- although it is very quiet, it still not where I'd like it to be -- the GPU and CPU fans are quite loud. So I've begun looking into watercooling as a silent option. I've seen passive radiator towers such as thermaltake' rocket and zalman's reserator, but the reviews seem a bit harsh. Since my goal is quiet and not to overclock, does anyone have a recommendation? I'm not restricted by a budget -- quiet is worth extra cost.
Thanks!
Antec Performance I P180 Case
Intel D 940 3.2Ghz Dual Core
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1900XT
ASUS P5WD2-E Premium Mainboard
Antec Phantom 500 PSU
PowerColor T55E-P03 Theater 550 PRO Tuner
CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin Unbuffered DDR2 800
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
NEC ND-3520A 16X Double Layer DVD±RW
(2) Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA 3Gb/s Hard Drives
Currently I'm running all stock air cooling. This build was supposed to be a quiet air cooled machine that was silent for my office -- although it is very quiet, it still not where I'd like it to be -- the GPU and CPU fans are quite loud. So I've begun looking into watercooling as a silent option. I've seen passive radiator towers such as thermaltake' rocket and zalman's reserator, but the reviews seem a bit harsh. Since my goal is quiet and not to overclock, does anyone have a recommendation? I'm not restricted by a budget -- quiet is worth extra cost.
Thanks!