- Joined
- Aug 12, 2002
- Location
- Gettysburg, PA
Currently I run a system with a Zalman CNPS-7700Cu on my CPU and a Zalman VF-700Cu on my video card (both on low). I have 2x Thermaltake 120mm fans running at 5v and a Antect NeoPower 480 power supply. Overall, this makes for a pretty quiet system, but maybe it is too quiet. See I have a 3200+ Winchester chip that I want to overclock since I can't really afford a chip that matches the speeds that I hear these chips can run at. Well I am thinking that with the air cooling setup right now I am not going to be able to make it very far since I run such a quiet system so I thought about going the water cooling route so I can overclock and still stay quiet. However, I am not sure if a water cooling setup running at around the same decible level will give me a very good improvement on temperatures. I have enough money to dump a few hundred into a good water cooling system and I think I have enough experience to do something homebrew if need be. For all I know, water cooling systems may be very quiet but all the pictures that I see have these systems with 2 or 3 or 4 120mm fans and if those fans are running at full speed, that is something I don't want to get into.