Dead Silent Computing: A Tangible and REAL Solution

[Axle]

It's not a C3 setup, is it?

 

[Seal]

seal, your Seagate is that hot? Is it really squished in there? I've got an Alienware rip off (Antec SX1040 or something?), with the side off, and after nearly a week of running (the mule is at work ), and some periods of full load (UT2K3 for a few hours), it's not even warm to the touch. I felt it all over, and there's no way anything on it is above 25c.

My rad is a special variaty of bootleg, but I ripped it off a very smart man named Gerwin on the procooling fourms. I don't want to link the images (they'd blow the margins), but they're here and here. If it were bigger/ two of them I think I'd really see a big performence increase. The whole thing cost ~$10.

Yeah my cuda runs hot, its in one of the 3.5" bays and dosent even get much airflow through it. I do however push my hd to the limit, im constantly browsing, installing, uninstalling, downloading things and therefore defrag at least once a day, most of the times about twice a day. It especially gets tested when i go to download stuff, my connection does just over 1mb/s up and down simultaneously so when i go to download things of the uni network and people are simultaneously uploading off me at 1mbps constantly then it does get pushed to its limits. If its been off for the night which isnt very often then at boot it starts from around 25 deg c and after a few hours it stays a constant 38 if im not doing anything and hovers around 43-45 if im dling and stuff.

If you use MBM5 you can monitor the temp of ur cuda IV. Turn the option of hd monitoring on in MBM5 setup. I think you may also have to enable S.M.A.R.T. in bios.

 

[Seal]

Oh yeah and i forgot to add, yeah ive seen that rad setup around before on pro cooling, i go on there occasionally. (usrname Seal). I would probably do the same thing if i had the space but im in a little uni room at the mo so its not really doable. If i could do that tho it would make a lot more room in my case to submerge my pump!

 

[fmah]

You might also consider those new Sparkle PS with the 120mm fan. I will have to investigate that, I believe they are speed controlled.

 

[Johnny Knoxville]

the zalman 6000 is not totally silent even at it's lowest setting (its 15,000rpm) it's still audible.
The seagate V is by far the quietest hard drive on the market, far quieter than your maxtors. look here www.storagereview.com
The power supplies you stated are not that quiet, the Zalman, Nexus and quietpc are the quietest by far.
Optical drive - the toshiba 1612 (or 1712) are the quietest you can get.

 

[UnseenMenace]

Its a mini-itx based system a M9000 (933 mhz C3) which ships as standard with a heatsink and fan however by increasing the size of the heatsink it is easily possible to turn these into passively cooled systems.. the 800 mhz mini-itx mobos are passively cooled as standard anyway.

Overall these are great systems for people who do not require power, check the processor benchmark on this thread from one of my system and you will clearly see some not so impressive performance.