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- Jan 2, 2004
I can't hear over my Volcano 11 heatsink/fan anymore, even at low RPM, and I'm not happy with the performance. So instead of doing the logical thing for me---finding better air cooling---I'm going to go near-silent.
I wanna watercool my rig.
The kit that appeals to me is the Swiftech kit with the 80-mm radiator. This is my first cooling project and I would prefer to get something tried and true that has good performance and is easy to leakproof, and is also somewhat maintenance free. Thus the swiftec-closed-loop thing.
I come to you asking for help:
1) I'm going to cool the chipset and CPU with this. Thinking of doing it in serial (pump->radiator->cpu->chipset), with perhaps a second 80mm radiator installed with Y-adapters. Swiftec says that radiators in parallel are reccomended for high performance, so it sounds good to me. Any suggestions on the dual-rad setup? Any case-installable kits that are better than the Swiftec, but still are "zero-maintenence" and simple to leakproof?
2) My case at the moment is a hulking ThermalTake Xaser-III. I've got a crapload of stuff in there and there isn't much room to run cables. I currently have three hard drives and two opticals in there and it is difficult to work on the interior of the case. Of the watercoolable cases mentioned in the WC Cases sticky, which one would you reccomend?
3) Anything else I should know?
Thanks in advance. I wanna be silent!
I wanna watercool my rig.
The kit that appeals to me is the Swiftech kit with the 80-mm radiator. This is my first cooling project and I would prefer to get something tried and true that has good performance and is easy to leakproof, and is also somewhat maintenance free. Thus the swiftec-closed-loop thing.
I come to you asking for help:
1) I'm going to cool the chipset and CPU with this. Thinking of doing it in serial (pump->radiator->cpu->chipset), with perhaps a second 80mm radiator installed with Y-adapters. Swiftec says that radiators in parallel are reccomended for high performance, so it sounds good to me. Any suggestions on the dual-rad setup? Any case-installable kits that are better than the Swiftec, but still are "zero-maintenence" and simple to leakproof?
2) My case at the moment is a hulking ThermalTake Xaser-III. I've got a crapload of stuff in there and there isn't much room to run cables. I currently have three hard drives and two opticals in there and it is difficult to work on the interior of the case. Of the watercoolable cases mentioned in the WC Cases sticky, which one would you reccomend?
3) Anything else I should know?
Thanks in advance. I wanna be silent!